He is dead chansonnier French Alain Barrière

The French singer Alain Barriere , the chansonnier of success in the 60s, particularly in Italy thanks to the collaboration with Gino Paoli, and Sergio Bardotti, died yesterday at Carnac, in Brittany. Was 84 years old and in 2011 he had to renounce to the scenes. He was born with the real name of Alain Bellec at Trinité-sur-Mer on 18 November 1935. His first piece of success was, And the more you love, the B-side Was too pretty, with which he participated at the Eurovision song contest of 1963. Kissed by an immediate popularity in France and also in Italy, the record company Rca he joined Paul for the adaptation of the songs in Italian. In the spring of 1964 Barrière threw the song Live, the original version of Ma vie, which Paul translated with Hinnies.

Already selected for the Sanremo Festival in 1965, the differences between the organization of the event and the Rca led to the withdrawal from the singing event of all the singers of the label, including Louiselle, Paul Anka, and Dalida. The song is intended to Barrière for the Festival of sanremo, Four reasons to not love you, was published anyway, but without great commercial success. Other Italian songs will be etched in the subsequent years, but will not reach most of the ranking, while interpreted and arranged with class and elegance, including The first days of April and Where you were. He tried, in vain, the relaunched abandoning the romantic songs with texts that were involved, including V comme Vietnam (1968), Avion, béton, camion (1970) on the pollution, Amoco (1978), and Mon pays (1978).