Emmanuelle Parrenin

Emmanuelle Parrenin is a French folk singer, harpist and hurdy-gurdy player who was first active in the late 1960s and 1970s as part of "le mouvement folk".
Parrenin was born into a family steeped in classical music: her mother played the harp and her father the violin, and studied ballet as child. She attended a Catholic boarding school but was expelled. She expanded her musical horizons during her teenage years, and was influenced by meeting Eric Clapton and... meer