Ricet BARRIER
Maurice-Pierre Barrier, known as Ricet Barrier, is a singer, actor and
entertainer born in Romilly-sur-Aube on August 25, 1932. After growing up in
Arcueil, near Paris, he was destined to become a physical education teacher, but
ended up choosing singing, which was his passion. Trained as a guitarist, he
also played the banjo and ukulele, and in 1955 joined Mireille's Petit
Conservatoire de la chanson, which revealed him on television. His career
continued in the cabarets of the Left Bank, where he came to the attention of
Jacques Canetti, artistic director of the Philips label, ...
