Patric (singer)

{{Infobox musical artist | honorific_prefix = | name = Patric | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_upright = | image_size = | landscape =  | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = Patrick Martin<ref name="loc" /> | alias = | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1947}} | birth_place = Hérault, France | origin = | death_date = | death_place = | genre = | occupation = | instrument = | years_active = | label = }} '''Patric''' (born Patrick Martin in 1947)<ref name="loc">{{cite web |title=Patric, 1947- |url=https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2020003882.html |website=id.loc.gov |access-date=January 23, 2021}}</ref> is an Occitan singer. He is one of the main figures of Nòva cançon, a music phenomenon promoting Occitanism. He's notable for several songs, for example his 2010 cover of the song "Bella ciao" in Occitan language.<ref>{{Citation |title=PATRIC - Bella ciao - Occitan cover (2010) |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaUE3PE01mk |language=en |access-date=2022-04-02}}</ref>

==Biography== At the end of the 1960s, Patric was a student in Montpellier, a pupil of Robert Lafont. Patric became one of the first to sing in Occitan, spearheading the Nòva cançon movement. He takes his first name as his stage name, since he often was confused with another Occitan singer Claudi Martí. His first lyrics address the themes of the Occitan claim—problems of Languedoc viticulture, youth discomfort, refusal of uprooting,<ref>{{cite journal |lang=fr |author1=Joan-Danièl Esteve |title=Les chanteurs de la revendication occitane |journal=Lengas |issue=67 |date=2010 |issn=2271-5703 |url=http://journals.openedition.org/lengas/698 |pages= }}</ref> and internal colonialism.<ref>{{cite journal |lang=en |author1=Eric Drott |title=The nòva cançon occitana and the Internal Colonialism Thesis |journal=French Politics, Culture & Society |volume=29 |issue=1 |date=Spring 2011 |issn=1537-6370 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/42843688 |pages=1-23 }}</ref>

Patric writes his own songs in both Occitan and French, as well as covering songs in Occitan by other singers such as Lluís Llach and Bob Dylan. In 2012, he recorded a CD of his songs translated into Esperanto.<ref>{{cite journal |lang=fr |author1=Philippe Martel |title=La Nòva Cançon occitana : révolution en occitan, révolution dans la chanson occitane ? |journal=Lengas |issue=74 |date=2013 |issn=2271-5703 |url=http://journals.openedition.org/lengas/303 |pages= }}</ref> Most of his albums are published on his own record label Aurora production, founded in 1990.<ref>{{cite book|lang=FR|author1=Camille Martel et Jordan Saïsset|title=Musiques occitanes|page=58|publisher=Editions Le mot et le reste|date=September 2016|isbn=9782360542253}}</ref>

In 2020, he published his autobiography and on the movement of the "Nòva cançon", written in the Occitan language.<ref>{{cite journal |lang=occitan |title=Patric, profession trobador |journal=Jornalet |place=Barcelona |publisher=Associacion entara Difusion d'Occitània en Catalonha (ADÒC) |date=6 September 2020 |issn=2385-4510 |url=https://www.jornalet.com/nova/12770/patric-profession-trobador |pages= }}</ref>

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==External links== * {{official website|https://patricmadeinoccitanie.com/}} (in French) *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070928163017/http://patric.aura-occitania.com/patric.html Biography on Aura Occitània]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Patric}} Category:Occitan-language singers Category:Living people Category:1947 births Category:20th-century French male singers