Maurice Fanon
Author, composer and performer of the Parisian "Left Bank", Maurice Fanon was
born on December 31, 1929 in Auneau, Eure et Loire. His passion for words, but
also his political commitment, came from his grandfather. Starting out as an
English teacher in the Paris suburbs, he began writing songs in the mid-1950s,
looking for performers. He met Moustaki and Pia Colombo, who became his wife,
his muse and also his best interpreter. After his break-up with her, he wrote "
L'Écharpe " (1963), which he performed and which has been reinterpreted more
than twenty times, by French artists s...
