Cabrel cites the artist as one of a number of blues influences, including Charley Patton, Son House, Blind Lemon, Robert Johnson, Howlin ' Wolf, Blind Blake, Willie Dixon, and Blues Boy Willie, whose father toured with Rainey.

Cabrel also examined the artist ’ s role in society (" Gens formidables ") and even delved a little into his own personal life for inspiration, addressing a song to the biological mother of the young Vietnamese girl he had adopted in 2004 (" Mademoiselle l ' aventure ").

By now Francis Cabrel had become one of the most popular recording stars on the French music scene and his life was one busy whirl of TV and radio interviews, autograph signing and promotion.

Meanwhile, on the music front, Cabrel returned to the stage to take part in a series of concerts entitled " Autour du blues.

The " Autour du blues " concerts also gave Cabrel the opportunity of working with the American musician David Johnson, who guested as sax-player on Cabrel's following album, Les Beaux Dégâts ( released in May 2004 ).

On 7 November Cabrel took to the stage on a very special occasion, organising a fund-raising concert for New Orleans, the home of jazz and blues, which had been devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

In a career consisting of four decades, she worked with performers across several genres and generations, folk, opera, pop, rock, including Lucio Dalla, Nana Mouskouri, Maria Farantouri, Andrea Bocelli, Holly Near, Silvio Rodríguez, Pablo Milanés, Milton Nascimento, Fito Páez, Caetano Veloso, Joan Manuel Serrat, Chico Buarque, Gal Costa, Gian Marco, Konstantin Wecker, Lourdes Pérez, Nilda Fernández, Pata Negra, David Broza, Franco Battiato, Luz Casal, Ismael Serrano, Charly Garcia, Joan Baez, Luciano Pavarotti, Shakira, Lila Downs, Julieta Venegas, Martha Argerich, Francis Cabrel and Sting.

In 1997 Cabrel continued his charity work, performing a tour with a host of French stars including Maurane, Michel Jonasz and Maxime Le Forestier, to raise money for the children's AIDS charity Sol en Si.

* Cabrel has been an active organizer and participant in concerts for charity, including repeat appearances in Les Enfoirés.

French singer / song writer Francis Cabrel refers to Rainey in the song " Cent Ans de Plus " on the 1998 album Hors-Saison.

* French singer-songwriter Francis Cabrel referred to Son House in the song " Cent Ans de Plus " on his 1999 album Hors-Saison.

These include " Speaking of Dream " with Joan Baez in 1990 ), a duo of " My Way " with Francis Cabrel in 1993, version of Bob Marley's " One Love sung with his son Ziggy Marley, Georges Reyes ' song " Donde esta el amor " with Nicolas Reyes in 2006.

The more commercial and pop part of " chanson " is called " variété ", and included Francis Cabrel, Alain Souchon, Laurent Voulzy and Jean-Jacques Goldman.

Francis Cabrel ( born 23 November 1953 in Agen, France ) is a French singer-songwriter and guitarist.

Cabrel was born into a modest family, his father was employed as a blue-collar worker and his mother was a cashier.

His paternal grandfather, Prospero Cabrel, immigrated to Gascony from Friuli, Italy, in the 1920s with his wife and six children.

That version of the song is disavowed by Cabrel today.

Cabrel is involved in the politics of Astaffort commune in Lot-et-Garonne and was elected its councilor in March 1989.

While Cabrel is best known for singing in the French language, he has also recorded Spanish renditions of many of his most popular compositions.

In 1990 Cabrel embarked upon a mini tour with singer Dick Rivers, delighting audiences with their re-worked versions of American rock ' n ' roll classics.

This mini tour, performed without the slightest bit of publicity in smaller, more intimate venues such as the Bataclan in Paris, allowed Cabrel to make closer contact with his fans and wind down a little after his busy promotional schedule earlier in the year.

Following several more months of intensive touring, which took Cabrel all over Europe, South America and Quebec, the singer released a triple live album entitled D ' une ombre à l ' autre.

Cabrel fans had to wait another three years for the release of any new Cabrel material, the renowned perfectionist shutting himself away in the studio for months on end to work on his next album.

Musically things had changed little from the early days – Cabrel was still surrounded by his loyal group of musicians and the guitar remained the most distinctive feature of the " Cabrel " sound.

Throughout his career Cabrel has tried hard to keep out of the media spotlight, leading a quiet life with his wife and two daughters.

It was Cabrel, for instance, who organised the " Rencontres d ' Astaffort ', a gathering of young singer / songwriters who came to the town for training and advice.

Cabrel also proved himself to be an enthusiastic entrepreneur, setting up his own label Cargo with Charles Talar in 1995.

As an artist of international reputation, he can be cited as an influence on European figures such as Gustav Klimt and Fernand Khnopff.

The band, which had been signed to Epic / Immortal for seven years, cited the fact that state law limits the amount of time that an artist can be bound to a company.

At first, Merchant took it very well, saying positive things about Fraser, according to her friend artist Guy Vaesen ( as cited by Michael Billington ); but, Vaesen recalled, after " a female friend of Vivien's trotted round to her house and poisoned her mind against Antonia ... ife in Hanover Terrace the Pinters then lived gradually became impossible ".

She has been cited as " the most popular black female recording artist of the ' 50s ", and called " The Queen of the Blues ".

It has remained a thriving sub-genre of popular and world music, while continuing to influence new artists, especially those appearing on today's growing roster of indie record labels ( artist examples cited in section 2 of this article ).

" Eavis also cited that Jay-Z was far from the first hip-hop artist to appear at Glastonbury.

Electronica artist James Lavelle cited The Low End Theory as one of his favorite albums.

Probably of no other artist of genius, not even of Whistler, could there be cited within the same period a rise in prices of at all the same proportion.

Another frequently-featured artist is Frank Zappa, whom Hansen cited as a major influence on the show and who appeared several times as a guest.

Jean has cited reggae artist Bigga Haitian as one of his early influences, as well as neighborhood heroes MC Tiger Paw Raw and producer Lobster v. Crab.

A review in Spin at the time cited Marclay's " coolest theatrical gesture " in his live performances of phonoguitar: the artist strapped a record player onto himself and played, for example, a Jimi Hendrix album.

During his stay in America, he was cited as being an intimate artist, bringing the viewer into his work, even when the picture was that of subjects such as the intimidating New York City Even other photographers cite Kertész and his photographs as being inspirational ; Henri Cartier-Bresson once said of him in the early 1930s, " We all owe him a great deal ".

He has cited Neal Adams as his favorite comic book artist, noting that he would often purchase used comics based on Adams's cover artwork, only to be disappointed that the interior artist was different.

The artist identified with the character of Black Anna, a woman cited as a protagonist in the uprising.

( Note: This chronology, an edited version of the author's 1983 seventy-eight page chronology in the Archives of American Art-which forms part of the collection named by the AAA " The Stephen Robeson Miller Research Papers about Kay Sage, 1898-1983 "-was published to coincide with the Katonah Museum of Art exhibition cited above ; it is the most comprehensively reliable source for all factual information about the artist.

Writer / artist Frank Miller cited the influence of Max and Dave Fleischer, including them among a list of prominent Golden Age comics creators whose work he acknowledged at the end of his 1986 comics series, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns.

The late outsider rockabilly artist Hasil Adkins is also cited, as well as country music star Johnny Cash.

Modernist literature sees fragmentation and extreme subjectivity as an existential crisis, or Freudian internal conflict, a problem that must be solved, and the artist is often cited as the one to solve it.

Hayao Miyazaki considers Yuriy Norshteyn " a great artist " and cited Hedgehog in the Fog as one of his favourite animated films.

She is often cited as Canada's top R & B artist.

A collaboration between popular artist Yoshitaka Amano and director Mamoru Oshii, it uses almost no dialogue, making it a commonly cited example of progressive anime.

Artists such as Parton, George Jones, and Chely Wright have cited Smith as either one of the best vocalists in the music industry or their favorite female artist.

The artist often cited the Hudson River School artists as major influences, especially Martin Johnson Heade and Frederic Edwin Church in addition to Nineteenth-Century German Romantic Artist, Caspar David Friedrich.