Gilles Servat at Lorient

Gilles Servat is a French singer, born in Tarbes in southern France in 1945, into a family whose roots lay in the Nantes region of Brittany. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Location within France Tarbes is a French town and commune, in the département of Hautes-Pyrénées, of which it is the préfecture. ... Traditional city flag City coat of arms Motto: Favet Neptunus eunti (Latin: Shall Neptune favour the traveller) Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country Region Pays de la Loire Department Loire-Atlantique (44) Mayor Jean-Marc Ayrault  (PS) (since 1989) City Statistics Land area¹ 65. ... Historical province of Brittany, showing the main areas with their name in Breton language The traditional flag of Brittany (the Gwenn-ha-du), formerly a Breton nationalist symbol but today used as a general civic flag in the region. ...

He spent his early childhood around Naoned/Nantes and Cholet and fell in love with Brittany, and particularly the Isle of Groix, off the coast of Morbihan a place that often features in his music. Groix island. ... Morbihan is a département in the northwest of France named after the Morbihan (small sea in Breton), the enclosed sea that is the principal feature of the coastline. ...

The title song from his first album, "La blanche Hermine", the White Ermine being the national emblem of Brittany, became an anthem for those Bretons fighting for national identity and social justice. The ermine (Mustela erminea) is a dark brown weasel, with a distinctive black-tipped tail. ... An emblem consists of a pictorial image, abstract or representational, that epitomizes a concept - often a concept of a moral truth or an allegory. ... An anthem is a composition to an English religious text sung in the context of an Anglican service. ... Breton can refer to: The Breton language A person from Brittany Author André Breton This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... For publications of this name, see also Nation (disambiguation) A nation is a community of people who live together in an area (or, more broadly, of their descendants who may now be dispersed); and who regard themselves, or are regarded by others, as sharing some common identity, to which certain... Social justice refers to the concept of a just society, where justice refers to more than just the administration of laws. ...

In the 1990s he became part of the legendary "Héritage des Celtes", led by Dan Ar Braz and featuring the most famous names in Celtic music. Dan ar Braz at Lorient Dan Ar Braz, born Daniel Le Bras (1949, Quimper, Brittany), is a Breton guitarist and the founder of Héritage des Celtes. ... Celtic music is a term utilized by record companies, music stores and music magazines to describe a broad grouping of musical genres that evolved out of the folk musical traditions of the Celtic peoples of Western Europe. ...

In 1998 he released the album "Touche pas à la Blanche Hermine" ("Don't Touch The White Ermine") as a defiant stand against the French National Front (the extreme right wing political party) who had dared to use Servat's song "La blanche Hermine" during its meetings. This article is about the French political party, not the WWII French resistance movement Front national. ...

Servat sings in Breton, French and English.

Servat is also an actor and accomplished writer and has written several novels inspired by Celtic myths and legends. He is also a campaigner for the Breton language and a supporter of the Skol Diwan Breton language schools. Breton (Brezhoneg) is a Celtic language spoken by some of the inhabitants of Brittany (Breizh) in France. ... Diwan is a federation of Breton language schools in Brittany, in the western part of the French Republic. ...

Albums

• 1970: La Blanche Hermine (The White Ermine)
• 1971: Ki du (Black Dog)
• 1972: L’hirondelle (The Swallow)
• 1974: La liberté brille dans la nuit (Freedom Shines in the Night)
• 1976: Le pouvoir des mots
• 1977: Chantez la vie, l’amour et la mort (Sing to life, love and death)
• 1979: L’or et le cuivre (Gold and Copper)
• 1980: Hommage à René-Guy Cadou (Homage To Rene-Guy Cadou)
• 1981: Gilles Servat en public (Gilles Servat Live)
• 1982: Je ne hurlerai pas avec les loups (I will not howl with the wolves)
• 1985: La douleur d’aimer
• 1988: Mad in sérénité (Mad in Serenity)
• 1992: Le fleuve (The River)
• 1993: L’albatros fou (The Foolish Albertros) with Triskell
• 1994: Les albums de la jeunesse (Albums of Youth)
• 1995: A-raok mont kuit (Before Leaving)
• 1996: Litanies pour l’an 2000 (Litanies for the Year 2000) a compilation album
• 1996: Sur les quais de Dublin (On the Quays of Dublin)
• 1998: Touche pas à la Blanche Hermine (Don't Touch the White Ermine)
• 2000: Comme je voudrai ! (As I wish!)
• 2003: Escales (Stopovers) a 'Best of' album
• 2005: Sous le ciel de cuivre et d'eau (Under the Copper and Water Sky)
• 2006: Sensation [guest artist on the title track of this album by Anuna]

also features on (amongst others): Anúna is an Irish choral group that came to world prominence through its involvement with the Riverdance phenomenon in the mid 1990s. ...

• 1994: L’Héritage des Celtes
• 1995: L’Héritage des Celtes en concert
• 1997: L’Héritage des Celtes - Finisterres
• 1998: L’Héritage des Celtes - Zénith
• 1999: Bretagnes à Bercy