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Boby Lapointe
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French singer-songwriter (1922–1972)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1922
- Died
- 1972
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Intégrale
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1922
- Active to
- 1972
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Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 43,258
- Total plays
- 463,008
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Robert (Boby) Lapointe (April 16, 1922 - June 29, 1972) was a French singer, noted for his humorous texts full of puns, alliterations, spoonerisms and paronyms. He was a friend of Georges Brassens who helped him along on the Parisian scene. He was born in Pézenas, in the Hérault département of France. A brilliant scholar, he prepared for the entrance exam to the Centrale (engineering school) and Sup-Aero at Montpellier, but was conscripted into the Youth Building Projects in 1942 and sent to Ge
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Pascal
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Pézenas
- Place of death
- Pézenas
- Occupation
- animator
- Languages spoken
- French
- Genre
- chanson
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Philips Records
- Official website
- www.bobylapointe.fr
- Image
- Identite-BobyLapointe-1951-Sasem.jpg
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- Commons category
- Boby Lapointe
- nickname
- Boby Lapointe
- manner of death
- natural causes
- birth name
- Robert Jean-François Joseph Pascal Lapointe
- name in native language
- Boby Lapointe
- date of birth
- 1922-04-16
- date of death
- 1972-06-30
- cause of death
- pancreatic cancer
- place of burial
- Pézenas
- start of work period
- 1956-00-00
- end of work period
- 1972-00-00
- copyright representative
- SACEM
- pseudonym
- Boby Lapointe
- has works in the collection
- Eye Filmmuseum
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