She spins, she pirouettes, right, left, forwards and backwards, in a gray jacket, then a white one, in trousers, in underwear, and sometimes without. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker twirls constantly ...

Edith Piaf is probably France's greatest performer. No entertainer has ever exerted as much influence over the hearts and minds of the French public. Jacques Brel was a Belgian who found his greatest ...

Zeebrugge (Belgium) (AFP) – Belgian singer Jacques Brel famously crooned about clinging to love in iconic hits like "Ne me quitte pas" and now two brothers in his homeland are engaged in their own ...

Friends and fans bade farewell to Nina Simone, the “high priestess of soul,” in the southern French town of Carry-le-Rouet on Friday at a funeral haunted by her mournful version of Jacques Brel’s “Ne ...

When the Belgian singer/songwriter Jacques Brel had his American debut at Carnegie Hall on Dec. 4, 1965, his passionate lyrics and soulful delivery — by turns funny, poetic, heartbreaking, bitter, ...

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In the pantheon of 20th century music icons it is almost unheard of to discover, decades later, new fly-on-the wall insights to the artist's most controversial period. Fans of Jacques Brel, the ...

4 Extra Debut. From Haiti to New York, Paris to Glasgow... stories of what Jacques Brel's song has meant to people around the world. From 2022. Show more Ne Me Quitte Pas is a song about begging ...

Ne Me Quitte Pas is a song about begging someone not to go - and of promising the world to them, if they'll only stay. From Haiti to New York, Provence to Glasgow - in versions by Nina Simone, Dusty ...