Hélène Martin

Hélène Martin (; 10 December 1928 – 21 February 2021) was a French singer-songwriter.

Biography Born in Paris, Martin was daughter of a university professor (Sciences Po), and started singing in cabarets in the 1950s. In 1962, she recorded poems by Jean Genet who encouraged her.

She created a TV series dedicated to poetry, Plain-Chant (1972). She also directed a TV movie after Jean Giono's novel Jean le Bleu (1979). In 2009, aged 81, she gave a last performance at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord.

Discography 1996: Hélène Martin chante les poètes, EPM Musique. Songs recorded 1962–1983, with Laurent Terzieff. 2000: La Douceur du bagne, book & CD, EPM/Le Castor astral 2002: Le Condamné à mort, sung by Marc Ogeret, music Hélène Martin, recorded 1970, EPM "poètes et chansons". 2003: Lucienne Desnoues, reissue, EPM "poètes et chansons" 2006: Jean Genet, Un chant d'amour, Buda Musique, with Richard Armstrong. 2006: Chansons pour les enfants, EPM Musique, 2006. 2006: Va savoir, EPM 2007: Pablo Neruda, de la poésie à la lutte. Includes L'Elégie à Pablo Neruda sung by Hélène Martin. 2007: Terres mutilées followed by Dans mon pays, poems by René Char, 1968, reissue, EPM "Poésie". 2008: Journal d'une voix, Des femmes-Antoinette Fouque. 2009-2010: Voyage en Hélénie, 13-CD case.

Awards 1961: Grand Prix du Disque 2009: Prix Jacques Douai