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Post by Pacifica on Sept 14, 2023 10:14:39 GMT
Is he known mostly (or exclusively) for songs in the English language?
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Sept 14, 2023 10:17:02 GMT
No.
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Post by Pacifica on Sept 14, 2023 10:21:27 GMT
In French?
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Sept 14, 2023 10:25:24 GMT
Yes.
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Post by Pacifica on Sept 14, 2023 10:28:18 GMT
Was he born in Belgium?
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Sept 14, 2023 10:30:46 GMT
Sigh. Yes.
So easy with the right questions. And yet if anyone had asked if he had been a film actor or director, I could have said yes, and you might have not immediately asked if that was what he was best known for, and been led down completely the wrong path.
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Post by Pacifica on Sept 14, 2023 10:47:53 GMT
Jacques Brel?
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Sept 14, 2023 11:03:07 GMT
Yes, but you knew that already.
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Sept 14, 2023 11:03:38 GMT
Have you seen any of the films?
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Post by Pacifica on Sept 14, 2023 11:29:55 GMT
Yes, but you knew that already. I didn't know, only suspected. Jacques Brel isn't the only dead male Francophone singer born in Belgium—he's just probably the best known one internationally. |
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Post by Pacifica on Sept 14, 2023 11:30:23 GMT
Have you seen any of the films? Not that I remember. |
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Post by Pacifica on Sept 14, 2023 11:30:58 GMT
I'm thinking of someone.
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Sept 14, 2023 12:03:09 GMT
Real?
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Post by Etaoin Shrdlu on Sept 14, 2023 12:07:30 GMT
I'm sure there are throngs of Belgian singers, but I've just looked at a list of Belgian best-selling musical artists (not just singers) since 1940, and there are only three that I think the average anglophone would have heard of: Brel, Plastic Bertrand and Django Reinhardt. Plastic Bertrand is alive (and didn't actually sing), and Reinhardt wasn't a vocalist.
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Post by Pacifica on Sept 14, 2023 12:13:36 GMT
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