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11 unusual facts about Jacques Brel


Anni Hogan

Hogan also arranged many of the Jacques Brel songs on the Marc Almond album, Jacques; She also arranged for The Immaculate Consumptive.

Brussels-West station

The station also connects with tram and bus, and the new Jacques Brel bus and metro depot has been built very near to it.

Elly Stone

Elly Stone (born May 30, 1927) is an American singer and actress best known for her interpretations of the music of Jacques Brel.

Paul Piché

Journalist Laurent Saulnier stated that Piché was the missing link between Bruce Springsteen and Jacques Brel, "an original mixture of French song, American rock, and Quebec folklore".

Ruben Hakhverdyan

Three songs that Hakhverdyan himself says have influenced him most and have been his all-time favorites are Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles, Amsterdam by Jacques Brel and It's a Man's World by James Brown.

Sasha Siem

While parallels have been drawn with pioneering singer-songwriters such as Tom Waits, Jacques Brel, Gary Glitter Björk, and Joanna Newsom the influence of art-song composers such as György Kurtág, Claude Vivier, Salvatore Sciarrino is equally evident in her music.

Sonia Theodoridou

More specifically she enjoys singing Jacques Brel, Kurt Weill, Hadjidakis, Theodorakis, Édith Piaf as much as the opera, however the opera is the genre she enjoys the most (www.ekathimerini.com, Sandra Voulgari, Feb. 2008).

Sydney Wayser

The Louvre Palace and the Orangerie being only a few blocks from her apartment, she quickly gleaned much of French culture from her songwriter father, leading her to musical influences that include Edith Piaf, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Jacques Brel, among many others.

Terry Jacks

The song was based on Rod McKuen's 1965 adaptation of "Le moribond", originally by Belgian singer Jacques Brel from 1962.

The Petit Paumé

The Petit Paumé is a student association of EMLYON Business School created in 1968, which name comes from Jacques Brel's popular song Les Paumés du petit matin (1962).

Xabier Lete

Apart from his own words, Lete also sang other singer´s songs, such as Lizardi´s or Jacques Brel´s.


Agnès Bihl

Inspired by Brel, Brassens, Renaud and Anne Sylvestre, Agnès Bihl appreciates the lyrics of French song.

Boby Lapointe

His joyful character led him to build friendships with the likes of Anne Sylvestre, Raymond Devos, Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens.

Café de la Gare

Even the patrons of the cafe became famous; among the regulars over the years were Georges Moustaki, Raymond Devos, Jean Ferrat, Jacques Brel, Pierre Perret, and Jean Yanne.

Charles Dumont

Piaf's death in 1963 led him to work with Jacques Brel, writing Je m'en remets à toi in 1964, and to writing songs for television shows such as Michel Vaillant in 1967, and cinema, Trafic by Jacques Tati in 1971.

Coluche

Amongst the patrons of the Café de la Gare were to be found: Georges Moustaki, Raymond Devos, Jean Ferrat, Jacques Brel, Leni Escudero, Pierre Perret, Jean Yanne.

Culture of the Marquesas Islands

Famous French painter Paul Gauguin and Belgian singer Jacques Brel spent the last years of their lives in the Marquesas, and are buried there.

Des de Moor

He is also a translator who has written accurate English translations of songs by Jacques Brel, Léo Ferré, Claude Nougaro, Barbara (Monique Serf), Bertolt Brecht and Wannes Van de Velde.

Glyn Styler

Recordings include Live at the Mermaid Lounge (1997), recorded at the New Orleans music club of the same name (which has since shut down), and The Desperate Ones, a 1998 EP on which he sings a duet cover of Jacques Brel's song The Desperate Ones with Lydia Lunch and also includes the drum machine flavored Won’t Stop Loving You and an instrumental version of the title track.

Live Santa Monica '72

# "my Death" (Eric Blau, Mort Shuman, Jacques Brel) – 5:51

Wojciech Młynarski

Several of his songs became hits in Polish Television in late 1960s, Młynarski also gained popularity as a translator of French and Russian songwriters, including Jacques Brel, Gilbert Bécaud and Vladimir Vysotsky.

Yossi Banai

Some of his revues consisted of renditions of the songs of Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens, which were often translated from the French for him by Naomi Shemer.