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Biography

Jacques Brel (1929–1978) was a French-speaking Belgian singer and author-composer. Known in the English-speaking world mainly through translations of his songs, he is also remembered in French-speaking countries as an actor and director.

Brel was born on 8th April 1929 in Schaarbeek, a district of Brussels, and lived half of his life in Paris. He died of lung cancer on 9th October 1978 in Bobigny in the suburbs of Paris, and is buried in the Marquesas Islands.

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