Born in 1940 in Renens, Switzerland, France's favorite children's singer is old enough to be a grandfather! But far from retiring he continues to delight each new generation with his fanciful and endearing songs and stories.

Here you can find all those enchanting fables put to music - soothing, captivating melodies that carry you away to a land where nonsense stories rule and where the extraordinary people that inhabit these places go on fantastic journeys and tell tales of wonder. In school yards all over France  you can hear kids singing these songs : C'est le Printemps (J'suis content/ c'est l'printemps/ aujourd'hui j'ai rien a faire) or Galipette, Bobinette (Aujourd'hui/ c'est samedi/ Faut trouver quelque chose a faire). 

What a career!

     Henry Des was the son of a Swiss masseur (his father) and a hair stylist (his mother). In 1960 at age 20 he left home for Paris to try his luck singing in the smoky cabarets of the city's Left Bank. But life was tough. For a long time he slept under bridges. He found some happiness in 1964 when he married Marie-Josee (later naming his production house after her) but achieved little recognition  in the ye-ye music world of the time.   

In the early 1970s Henri Des turned to writing and singing songs for young children. The release of his first album in 1977 was met with immediate success. It was the first in a long list of sought after albums. To his own inventions he later added recordings of well known French nursery rhymes, lullabies and stories. In fact some of his most successful albums are modern renditions of these traditional French songs, passed down from generation to generation for centuries by loving mothers to their children. 

You can find out more about Henri Des on his official web site:

 www.henrides.com

The Henri Des Collection