Hugues Aufray is a French singer. He began his career singing in Spanish.

Aufray represented Luxembourg

Luxembourg

Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south...

 in the 1964 Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest 1964

The Eurovision Song Contest 1964 was the ninth Eurovision Song Contest. It was held in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark after the Danish victory the previous year. Sweden did not participate because of a boycott by singers. They did however broadcast it...

, performing "Dès que le printemps revient" and finishing fourth. His most famous songs are "Santiano

Santiano

"Santiano" is a 1961 song, inspired by the popular song "Santianna", as it uses the same tune. However, it refers to a ship leaving Saint Malo bound to San Francisco, described as a wealthy place...

", "Céline", "Stewball" and in Spanish, "Barco de Papel".

Aufray is well known for his French covers of Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

's songs.

He was born to Henry Auffray, an industrialist, and Amyelle de Caubios d'Andiran, a musician, second cousin

Cousin

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 of the French author François Mauriac

François Mauriac

François Mauriac was a French author; member of the Académie française ; laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature . He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Légion d'honneur .-Biography:...

 (respectively by their maternal grandfather and maternal grandmother).
His sister was actress Pascale Audret

Pascale Audret

Pascale Audret was a French actress who was most active during the 1950s through to the 1960s.-Career:...

 (1936–2000) and his niece is actress Julie Dreyfus

Julie Dreyfus

Julie Dreyfus is a French actress.Dreyfus, who speaks fluent Japanese, French, and English, is well known in Japan, where she made her TV debut on a French-language lesson program on NHK's educational channel in the late 1980s, and has appeared on the TV show Ryōri no Tetsujin as a guest and...

.

LPs

• Céline/Le printemps revient
• Hugues Aufray chante Bob Dylan
• Vous ma lady/adieu
• Dou Wakadou/On est les rois/Les remords et les regrets/Bambou
• L'homme orchestre/Je croyais/Laisse-moi petite fille/Les yeux fermés
• Hugues Aufray
• Garlick

CDs

• Concert intégral
• A l'Olympia
• La Terre est si belle
• Little Troubadour
• Best of
• Le meilleur d'Hugues Aufray
• Aux vents solitaires
• Hugues Aufray chante Félix Leclerc
  Félix Leclerc
  Félix Leclerc, was a French-Canadian singer-songwriter, poet, writer, actor and Québécois political activist. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada on December 20, 1968...
  
  

External links

• Official site (in French)
• Biography of Hugues Aufray, from Radio France Internationale
  Radio France Internationale
  Radio France Internationale was created in 1975 as part of Radio France by the Government of France, and replaced the Poste Colonial , Paris Mondial , Radio Paris , RTF Radio Paris and ORTF Radio Paris...
  
   (in English)
• Ancestry of Hugues Aufray