For better or worse, Jacques Brel, born on April 8, 1929, is primarily known in the United States–if at all–for the 1968 off Broadway production "Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris," a musical revue of his songs.
An indelible icon of French popular music and culture, Brel was a brilliant, explosively emotional singer, willing to take an unflinching look at the dark side of bourgeois existence and the hopeless heartbreaking despair of romance.
Brel died of lung cancer at the age of 49.
Below is a video of "Une valse a mille temps." Headphones - encouraged - as is a review of all his songs.
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