- Étienne Roda-Gil
Étienne Roda-Gil (1 August 1941 in
Septfonds ,Tarn-et-Garonne ,France – 31 May 2004 inParis ) was asongwriter andscreenwriter . He was married to the painterNadine Delahaye until her death in 1990.Roda-Gil was the son of a Spanish republican who had come as a
refugee to France. After university studies, he met singerJulien Clerc in a café in Paris'sLatin Quarter in 1968, and began a fruitful collaboration which was broken off in 1980. Clerc and Roda-Gil did, however, collaborate on the album "Utile" in 1992, which won thePrix Vincent Scotto .In 1979, he collaborated with
Gérard Lenorman on the album "Boulevard de l'océan".Johnny Hallyday ,Claude François ,Juliette Gréco , Barbara andLouis Bertignac are other singers who have interpreted his songs.Roda-Gil's book "La Porte marine" was published through
Éditions du Seuil and his adaptation ofFyodor Dostoevsky 's "The Idiot" for directorAndrzej Żuławski became the 1985 film "L'amour braque ".He approached
Roger Waters in 1987 to set his and his wife's operalibretto , "Ça Ira ", to music. Despite the initial version having been completed and recorded by the end of 1988 and receiving an endorsement from then-French presidentFrançois Mitterrand , the opera did not receive a performance until 2005, after Roda-Gil's death.In 1989 he received the "grand prix" of songwriting from
Sacem (La Société des auteurs, compositeurs et éditeurs de musique).Roda-Gil was also an
anarchist and often participated in demonstrations of theConfédération nationale du travail .External links
*fr icon [http://www.roda-gil.fr Official site]
*fr icon [http://www.julien-clerc.net/auteurs/etienne_roda-gil/ Illustrated biography and discography]
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