Denez Prigent

Denez Prigent is a French folk singersongwriter of the gwerz and kan ha diskan styles of Breton music. From his debut at the age ofhe was known for singing traditional songs a cappella, and has moved on to singing his own songs with techno music accompaniments. He has performed in France as well as internationally, and has recorded four studio albums and a live album.

In 1988, driven by his passion for the Breton language, he became a Breton teacher in Carhaix, during which he was regularly invited in traditional music festivals such as the Tombes de la nuit and the Festival Interceltique de Lorient. In 1991, the city of Rennes invited him to participate in the Voice of Asia festival due to take place in its newly twinned city of Alma Ata, Kazakhstan. Surprised by this invitation, Prigent wrote a satirical song, Son Alma Ata about the incongruity for a Breton singer to be sent to perform in Kazakhstan. This first concert abroad gave him an opportunity to discover the Kazakh people, then integrated into the Soviet Union, and compare its situation to that of the Breton people, integrated into France. In 1991, Prigent resigned from his teaching position in order to pursue his artistic career. While collecting the lyrics of traditional songs, he met Eugnie Ebrel born Goadec, one of the three Goadec Sisters who revived Breton a cappella singing in th

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