biography
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| lived:
| (1929–78)
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| biography:
| Writer, composer, and performer, born in Schaerbeek, C Belgium. The son of a manufacturing family, he arrived in Paris in 1953, and appeared at Aux Trois Baudets and at l'Olympia the same year. He wrote more than 400 songs, which he interpreted with a discreet and sincere presence, which made him famous and took him to Carnegie Hall, USA in 1965. They include ‘Les Bourgeois’, ‘La valse à Mille Temps’, ‘Madeleine’, ‘Amsterdam’, and ‘Ne me Quitte pas’. He retired from singing in 1966. As an actor he appeared in Les Risques du Métier, La Bande a Bonnot, Mon Oncle Benjamin, and Franz (which he also produced). He made L'homme de la Mancha in Brussels in 1968, then returned to Paris the following year. He is buried at Hiva Oa in Polynesia. |
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