Throughout his long and successful career spanning over 40 years, Jean Ferrat has remained faithful to his guiding principles, love, poetry and political commitment. Ferrat's beautifully written songs have been influenced by everything from the Communist Party to Aragon's tender love poems. Never afraid to air his personal opinions (the singer once entitled an album "Woman is Man's future"), Jean Ferrat has made a name for himself on the French music scene as a very individual performer. Ferrat, a highly private man who likes to keep out of the media spotlight, is nevertheless an immensely popular French star whose concerts are considered to be major events in the music calendar.