Showing posts with label Genet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Genet. Show all posts

Monday, 9 July 2012

Hélène Martin

The same poem was later covered by Etienne Daho (who sang it, when I was at the Olympia in Paris; July 2008) and Raphaël on his live DVD.  Yet this rendition of the poem by Jean Genet as sung by Hélène Martin, remains stark, minimal and effective, even now.