Gilles Servat is a French singer, born in Tarbes in southern France in
1945, into a family whose roots lay in the Nantes region of
Brittany.He spent his early childhood and teenage years around Nantes
and Cholet, after his father obtains a position of chief of the
personnel at the factory Ernault-Batignolles. During this time, he is
influenced by Georges Brassens and Léo Ferré, which shows not only
on his writing, but furthermore on his way to think and react to
events..After a baccalauréat in literature, he studied sculpture,
painting, drawing and engraving at the École régionale des
beaux-arts d'Angers, with the goal of becoming a teacher. The rise in
popularity of conceptual art made him change his career path. He then
spent four years in Angers and two in Paris, where he worked for some
months at the ORTF.
1945, into a family whose roots lay in the Nantes region of
Brittany.He spent his early childhood and teenage years around Nantes
and Cholet, after his father obtains a position of chief of the
personnel at the factory Ernault-Batignolles. During this time, he is
influenced by Georges Brassens and Léo Ferré, which shows not only
on his writing, but furthermore on his way to think and react to
events..After a baccalauréat in literature, he studied sculpture,
painting, drawing and engraving at the École régionale des
beaux-arts d'Angers, with the goal of becoming a teacher. The rise in
popularity of conceptual art made him change his career path. He then
spent four years in Angers and two in Paris, where he worked for some
months at the ORTF.
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