Hugues Aufray

Hugues Jean Marie Auffray born 18 August 1929 better known as Hugues Aufray is a French singersongwriter and guitarist He is known for Frenchlanguage covers of Bob Dylans songs Aufray knew Dylan and his work from his time in New York City as well as from record shops and his translations capture the rawness of the original songs His most famous original songs are Santiano Céline Stewball and Hasta Luego Aufray was born to Henry Auffray an industrialist and Amyelle de Caubios dAndiran 18981992 a musician and second cousin of the French author François Mauriac respectively by their maternal grandfather and maternal grandmother His sister was actress Pascale Audret 19362000 and his niece is actress Julie Dreyfus Once Aufrays parents divorced the family left Paris for Sorèze Tarn Occitania where he was raised by his mother During the war in 19411945 he studied at the Dominican College in Sorèze In 1945 Aufray joined his father in Madrid living there for three years He attended the Lycée Français de Madrid in Madrid and graduated with his baccalauréat He then returned to France to start singing in Spanish Aufray first began writing songs for French singers After finishing second in a singing competition he signed a record deal in 1959 with Eddie Barclay From there he went on to cowrite and arrange many songs drawing influence from folk blues and rock While supporting Peter Paul and Mary in New York in 1962 he struck up a friendship with Bob Dylan who would then visit him in Paris in 1964 Aufray translated many of Dylans songs into French their appearance on his 1965 album Aufray chante Dylan helped form the tastes of the new French generation Aufray represented Luxembourg in the 1964 Eurovision Song Contest performing Dès que le printemps revient and finishing fourth In 1966 he sang Les Crayons de Couleur in support of Martin Luther King Jr at an antiracism benefit In 1984 he sang a duet with Bob Dylan at a concert in Grenoble and performed with him in Paris as well In 2022 he received a special prize celebrating his whole musical career during the 63rd International Congress of the Société des Poètes et Artistes de France Spaf which was organized that year in Sorèze Source Article Hugues Aufray from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA