Gilbert Laffaille is a French singer-songwriter, who was born in Paris and grew up in Neuilly-sur-Seine (the place that features in his song
Neuilly blues). After a chaotic education he became a french teacher in 1973. He began his career as a singer-songwriter in 1976, singing other people's songs, occasionally in English. He began performing his own compositions at the cabaret Chez Georges in Paris's Latin Quarter. He became well known though his song
Le Président et l'éléphant which criticized the then French president, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, for his Afric…
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