Marc Ogeret
An interpreter of poets, Marc Ogeret was born in Paris on February 25, 1932, and
died in hospital in Semur-en-Auxois (Côte d'Or) on June 4, 2018. Influenced by
chanson réaliste, he took his first steps in the cabarets of the Left Bank, Chez
Agnès Capri and La Colombe, in the late 1950s. In 1958, he made his first
recordings for the G.E.M. label: a series of EPs devoted to the repertoires of
Aristide Bruant, Guy Béart and Léo Ferré. He received the Grand-Prix de
l'Académie Charles-Cros (1962) and the Prix de l'Académie de la Chanson (1963),
and opened for Georges Brassens. In 1966...
