BIOGRAPHY :
Nino Ferrer, whose real name Nino Agostino Arturo Maria Ferrari, was born August 15, 1934 in Genoa (Italy) but will spend the first years of his life in New Caledonia or his father works. At the end of World War II, his family moved to Paris. It is here that Nino will pursue studies in ethnology and prehistoric archeology at the Sorbonne. Parallel to his studies, he is passionate about painting and music and began learning the piano, guitar and bass. In 1959 he made his first steps in music by playing bass on several albums of jazz. He composed his first songs and present several record companies who are unwilling or work until 1963 he finally released his first 45 laps.

Success is not to go, but this first step allows him to make contacts and gain confidence in him. In 1965, with the title "Mirza" the Nino Ferrer career finally took off. Needless successive hits ( "Le Telefon," "The Pickles" "Oh Hey, Hey! Good!", Etc..) But the image of singer "funny" it weighs. In 1967 he moves away from the music business and does his return four years later with a new album. "Metronome" passes almost unnoticed, but a milestone in the singer's career by imposing a new style to the more distant range than in the past. Nino Ferrer goes out nine albums until 1986 and know a lot of successes like the song "The South" will be the hit of the summer of 1975. Since 1986, Nino Ferrer spends more time painting and it was not until 1993 that comes with his last two albums "The Désabusion" and "Life In The Car". In 1998, while preparing a new opus, his mother dies and leaves a huge void in the life of Nino Ferrer. Do not support this absence, he ended his days August 13, 1998 by shooting himself in the heart in the middle of a field a few miles from his home, near Montcuq in the Lot. He leaves his fans and an orphan but a rich musical legacy to French music.