Serge Reggiani

Serge Reggiani is a French chanson legend who first rose to fame as a singer in the 1960s after already having established himself as an actor in the cinema decades earlier. (He remained active in the cinema until the end of the century, acting in over 80 films total.) His full-length album debut, Serge Reggiani (1964), showcased the songwriting of Boris Vian, a prolific Parisian writer whose body of work Reggiani would return to in subsequent years. In 1968, Reggiani switched to Polydor and released Et Puis..., the first of over a dozen of his albums on the label issued over the course of the '60s, '70s, and '80s. Reggiani died on July 23, 2004, in Paris. ~ Jason Birchmeier