Claude Nougaro (Toulouse, September 9, 1929 - Paris, March 4, 2004) was a French singer.
His father Pierre was baritone, his mother, Liette pianist and teacher. Nougaro developed a broad musical taste, he grows up with Verdi, Bizet, listens to Édith Piaf, but also to Bessie Smith and Glenn Miller.
In 1962 he presented his first album. Nougaro is seen as atypical in the world of French chanson, because he makes a unique mix of jazz and java, mixed rhythms and the Occitan (southern French region) language. Nougaro brought the younger generations into contact with jazz, world music and Brazilian rhythms. One of his best-known songs is "Le jazz et la java".
He went on tour for the last time in 2002. The following year, he treated his fans on a spectacle with his own verses from his bundle "Les fables de ma fontaine". He was a great lover of the texts of Jacques Audiberti, Léo Ferré and Rimbaud.
Nougaro has died a long time ago in pancreatic cancer at the age of 74.
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