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Hélène Martin is the daughter of a university teacher (Sciences Po), and started singing in cabarets in the fifties.
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In 1962, she recorded poems by Jean Genet who encouraged her. Jean Vilar asked her to stage a show based on poems by René Char for the Festival d"Avignon, interpreted by her and Roger Blin, Francesca Solleville, Bachir Touré (1966). Surrealist poet Philippe Soupault published a book on her and her work.
She created a television serie dedicated to poetry, Plain-Chant (1972).
She also directed a television 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.
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