 |
Philippe Lafontaine | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Philippe Lafontaine |
| Born | 24 May 1955 Gosselies, Belgium |
| Genres | Pop |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, singer |
| Instrument | Voice |
| Website | www |
Philippe Lafontaine (born 24 May 1955) is a Belgian singer and composer.
|
Philippe Lafontaine | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Philippe Lafontaine |
| Born | 24 May 1955 Gosselies, Belgium |
| Genres | Pop |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, singer |
| Instrument | Voice |
| Website | www |
Philippe Lafontaine (born 24 May 1955) is a Belgian singer and composer.
Lafontaine was born in Gosselies, Belgium. He spent a short time in a Jesuit college that he left at 17 to pursue a career in music. His first successes came from the writing and recording of jingles for television commercials, including Stella Artois and Coca-Cola. Throughout the 1980s he joined the musical comedy Brel en mille temps, touring in Dakar and Moscow, and then Leningrad and Saint Petersburg. Lafontaine released three albums. The song "Cœur de loup" was his first big hit and launched his career once and for all in Europe. The song garnered many awards in Belgium, France and Quebec. He represented Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 in Zagreb with his own composition "Macédomienne" dedicated to his Macedonian wife, ending in 12th place. [1] In 2001, he ventured for a 2nd time in musical comedy, composing Celia Fee, a musical for children and adults alike. His lyrics are known for being full of doubles entendres.
Daniel Xavier-Marie Balavoine was a French singer and songwriter. He was popular in the French-speaking world in the early 1980s; he inspired many singers of his generation such as Jean-Jacques Goldman, Michel Berger, who was his closest friend, as well as the Japanese pop-rock group Crystal King. Balavoine was a part of the original cast of the rock opera Starmania in 1978, which was written by Berger.
Danielle Frida Hélène Boccara was a French singer of Italian descent, who performed and recorded in a number of languages, including French, Spanish, English, Italian, German, Dutch and Russian.
Maxime Le Forestier is a French singer-songwriter.
Gaston Ghrenassia , known by his stage name Enrico Macias, is a French singer, songwriter and musician of Algerian Jewish descent.
Hugues Jean Marie Auffray, better known as Hugues Aufray, is a French singer-songwriter and guitarist.
Jeane Manson is an American model, singer, and actor, born in Cleveland, Ohio. Her first name was changed from "Jean" to "Jeane" because, as all of her career was in France after 1974, the French would have otherwise thought that she was a man, "Jean" being the French for "John".
Gérard Lenorman is a French singer-songwriter.
Fabienne Thibeault is a French Canadian singer. She is particularly known for her role in Starmania. Thibeault has released numerous albums over her career. She has been the recipient of two Félix Awards.
Ronnie Bird is a French singer.
Julien Lepers is a French television and radio presenter, and a singer-songwriter, born on 12 August 1949 in Paris.
Frédéric François, is a French-speaking singer-composer living in Belgium.
Liliane Saint-Pierre is a Belgian pop singer. Hailing from Flanders, she sings mostly in Dutch. She competed at Eurovision Song Contest 1987 with the song "Soldiers of Love".
François Valéry is a French singer-songwriter and composer. He is married to Nicole Calfan and Michael Calfan is his son.
Yvon Éthier better known as Patrick Norman is a Canadian country musician. He sings both in French and English and has had hits in Quebec and in the rest of Canada.
Jean-Sébastien Abaldonato better known as Sébastien El Chato is a French singer and guitar player of Romani origin. He is based in Paris and has had a long string of albums since 1976.
Georges Poubennec, better known under the name Georges Aber, was a French singer-songwriter.
Lucky Blondo is a French singer who was popular in the 1960s.
William Tai, known professionally as Malik, was a Belgian comic book artist.
"Cœur de loup" is a 1978 pop song recorded by Belgian singer Philippe Lafontaine. It was the first single from his 1989 album Fa ma no ni ma on which it appears as the sixth track, and was released in July 1989. It achieved success in France where it topped the chart, became a popular song throughout years and can be considered as Lafontaine's signature song.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Artists | |
| Other | |
