Discover the story of the song > Nantes – Barbara

- Barbara wrote and composed the song "Nantes" in 1963, and recorded it in 1964.
- The song is about her father, Jacques Serf, who died in 1959.
- Serf had left Paris a decade earlier without being heard from, and Barbara did not learn of his death until she was 21.
- Serf had a history of mental illness and alcoholism, and led a marginal and solitary life.
- Barbara forgave her father in her 1998 memoir, "He Was a Black Piano..."
- She began writing the song the day after her father's funeral, and finished it nearly four years later.
- The song was released on her album "Dis, quand reviendras-tu?".
- A street in Nantes was named after her father in 1986, 20 years after his death.