Leo Marjane Brassai Seule ce soir, 1941

Leo Marjane was one of great French singers of 1930s and 1940s. Her unique sadly grinning deep voice and a strong dramatic expression were, two decades later, an inspiration for another great star of the French chanson Juliette Greco. Leo Marjane s grand career had an abrupt end with the end of WWII. The French remembered, that during the occupation she entertained the Nazis with a little too much enthusiasm. After 1945 she retired. This beautiful melancholic slowfox was composed by Charles T