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person_profile-Henri Salvador

Henri Salvador Died at age: 90

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Henri Salvador

Date of Birth:

Jul 18, 1917

Country of birth:

French Guiana

Died:

Feb 13, 2008

Biography of

Henri Salvador

    Henri Salvador (18 July 1917 – 13 February 2008) was a French Caribbean comedian, singer and cabaret artist.

    Salvador was born in Cayenne, French Guiana. His father, Clovis, and his mother, Antonine Paterne, daughter of a native Carib Indian, were both from Guadeloupe, French West Indies. Salvador had a brother, André, and a sister, Alice.

    He began his musical career as a guitarist accompanying other singers. He had learned the guitar by imitating Django Reinhardt's recordings, and was to work alongside him in the 1940s. Salvador recorded several songs written by Boris Vian with Quincy Jones as arranger. He played many years with Ray Ventura and His Collegians where he used to sing, dance and even play comedy on stage.

    He also appeared in movies including Nous irons à Monte-Carlo (1950), Nous irons à Paris (Jean Boyer's film of 1949 with the Peters Sisters) and Mademoiselle s'amuse (1948).

    He is known to have recorded the first French rock and roll songs in 1957 written by Boris Vian and Michel Legrand — "Rock'n Roll Mops", "Rock hoquet, Va t'faire cuire un oeuf, man" and "Dis-moi qu'tu m'aimes rock" — under the artist name of Henry Cording (a play on the word "Recording"). Despite this historical aspect, he never ceased to claim that he disliked rock and roll and even refused to talk about this subject later on.

    In the 1960s, Salvador was the host of several popular television variety shows on French TV. In 1964, he scored a hit with "Zorro est arrivé", which was adapted from The Coasters' U.S. hit "Along Came Jones". He is also famous for his rich, catchy laugh, which is a theme in many of his humorous songs. In 1969, Henri Salvador recorded a variation of "Mah Nà Mah Nà" entitled "Mais non, mais non" ("But No, But No" or "Of Course Not, Of Course Not"), with lyrics he had written in French to Piero Umiliani's music.

    Henri Salvador and his song "Dans mon île" (1957) were thought to be an influence on Antônio Carlos Jobim in formulating the Brazilian bossa nova style.

    Famous Brazilian composer and singer Caetano Veloso made Henri Salvador famous to Brazilian audiences with the song "Reconvexo", in which he says "quem não sentiu o swing de Henri Salvador?" ("who hasn't felt the swing of Henri Salvador?"). Veloso also recorded a version of Salvador's song "Dans mon île".

    At the age of 70, Salvador was the voice-over of the crab Sebastian in the 1989 French dubbing of Disney's The Little Mermaid. Recordings of "Embrasse-la" ("Kiss the Girl") can be found on YouTube.

    Salvador discovered singers Keren Ann and Art Mengo.

    He died of a ruptured aneurysm at his home in the early hours of 13 February 2008. He was 90 years of age. He was buried next to his wife Jacqueline in Père-Lachaise Cemetery.

    He was known as a supporter of Paris Saint-Germain F.C. He obtained four seats for life in the Parc des Princes. ...

    Source: Article "Henri Salvador" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Henri Salvador

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Filmography of

Henri Salvador

Found 13 Movies in total

... 2022

The Magic Roundabout

Pollux (French Voice) ( Actor )

... 2005

... 2002

Émilie Jolie

Le conteur ( Actor )

... 1980

Et qu'ça saute !

Luis Vasquez ( Actor )

... 1970

... 1966

Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge

Le professeur de chant ( Actor )

... 1962

... 1962

... 1962

Springtime in Paris

(uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1957

Hello Smile!

lui-même ( Actor )

... 1956

We Will All Go to Paris

Henri Salvador ( Actor )

... 1950

Mademoiselle Has Fun

Henri Salvador ( Actor )

... 1948