26 Facts About Denez Prigent

Denez Prigent has performed in France as well as internationally and has recorded seven studio and two live albums.

Denez Prigent thus discovered the Breton language at his grandmother's, along with its natural harmony and the tendency of Breton speakers of that time to sing written or improvised songs.

Surprised by this invitation, Denez Prigent wrote a satirical song, "Son Alma Ata" about the incongruity for a Breton singer to be sent to perform in Kazakhstan.

In 1991, Denez Prigent resigned from his teaching position in order to pursue his artistic career.

Denez Prigent provided him with the lyrics of "Ti Eliz Iza", and her daughter, Annie Ebrel, decided to join him on stage.

In 1992, Denez Prigent sang a cappella during the Transmusicales, in front of an audience unused to this style.

Denez Prigent subsequently left the band Daouarn with which he had sung in festou-noz.

At his wife's request, Denez Prigent attended the first rave party held in Rennes, in 1993, in spite of his negative prejudice.

Denez Prigent released his second album, Me 'zalc'h ennon ur fulenn aour, in 1997.

Denez Prigent wrote all the lyrics except for the traditional song Ar rannou that appears in the Barzaz Breiz, and most of the musics, using both traditional instruments and electronic sounds.

In most cases, Denez Prigent's voice was recorded first and electronic sounds were added afterwards.

Denez Prigent compared this treatment of singing and music to that of Alan Stivell:.

Fidelity to tradition is absolutely not a way of imprisoning himself in his own culture; on the contrary, for Denez Prigent, developing the Breton culture by adapting it to modern technology is a way of opening up to other cultures.

Denez Prigent's verses are mostly octosyllables with, generally, a median caesura.

Denez Prigent only writes in Breton, a language that, according to Prigent, kept its sacred aspect, contrarily to French.

Two previously unreleased songs written in the beginning of Denez Prigent's career are part of the album, Son Alma Ata and Ar gwez-sapin.

Denez Prigent describes his despair about this situation, writing that those who dreamt of a return to harmony between generations linked by the Breton language and culture were crazy.

Denez Prigent then rediscovered the silence of nature, with the rustle of the wind in the trees in the background.

Denez Prigent drew from that the impression, from which he writes the song, that modernisation cuts people from nature and encourages them to stay alone behind their screens.

Since then, Denez Prigent sang on such stages as the big stage of the Vieilles Charrues Festival, Rencontres Trans Musicales in Beijing, the Paleo Festival Nyon, the Rozrywki Theater in Poland, the Stimmen Festival, the antique Roman Theater in Vienna and the theater of Tenerife.

On 7 April 2015, Denez Prigent published a new studio album, "An enchanting garden - Ul liorzh vurzhudus".

In exchange, Denez Prigent participated in May 2016 to his album "The Falling Season", under "Story of Me".

The sadness that Denez Prigent feels when he lives in a city is the topic of E trouz ar ger, which concludes as the world ends, and in Melezouriou-glav, in which he finds a new hope in the last remaining natural element: rain.

Since he cannot find nature around him, Denez Prigent keeps it in his memory.

Denez Prigent ends up going back to living in the country, as told in Sarac'h.

Denez Prigent hanged her husband, her mother-in-law and her parents on that tree.