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Jacques Higelin
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French actor and singer (1940-2018)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Flâner entre les intervalles
- Je vis pas ma vie, je la rêve
- Lettres d'amour d'un soldat de vingt ans
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Film & TV
Brou-sur-Chantereine, Seine-et-Marne, France
Jacques Joseph Victor Higelin (18 October 1940 – 6 April 2018) was a French pop singer who rose to prominence in the early 1970s. Higelin was born on 18 October 1940. His father, Paul, a railway worker and musician of Alsatian descent, introduced his two sons to various forms of music, while his mother, Renée, of Belgian descent, raised them both. Higelin's entertainment career began at age 14,…
Known for
- Ce que le temps a donné à l'homme — Self2014
- Jappeloup — Henry Dalio, first owner of Jappeloup2013
- Brigitte Fontaine : Reflets et crudité — Self2013
- Colette, une femme libre — Georges Wague2004
- Raining Cats and Frogs — Le lion (voice)2003
- Vivement dimanche — Self1998
- Un homme à la mer — Pierre1993
- Lest We Forget — Self (segment "Pour Vera Chirwa, Malawi")1991
- Les Nuls, l'émission — Self1990
- Savannah — Colin1988
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1940-10-18
- Active to
- 2018-04-06
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 97,407
- Total plays
- 839,656
Tags
Jacques Higelin (born Jacques Joseph Victor Higelin on 18 October 1940 in Brou-sur-Chantereine, Seine-et-Marne, France; died 6 April 2018 in Paris) was a French pop singer who rose to prominence in the early 1970s. Early in his career, many of Higelin's songs were effectively blacklisted from French radio because of his controversial left wing political beliefs, and his association with socialist groups. He and his wife, Kuelan, are the parents of three children, including musician Arthur H. and
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Victor
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Brou-sur-Chantereine
- Place of death
- Nogent-sur-Marne
- Child
- Izïa
- Occupation
- singer
- Languages spoken
- French
- Native language
- French
- Genre
- blues
- Instrument
- synthesizer
- Record label
- Capitol Records
- Official website
- www.jacqueshigelin.fr
- Image
- Jacques Higelin 2013.jpg
- Number of children
- 3
- Significant event
- funeral
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- Commons category
- Jacques Higelin
- date of birth
- 1940-10-18
- Commons gallery
- Jacques Higelin
- name in native language
- Jacques Higelin
- date of death
- 2018-04-06
- birth name
- Jacques Joseph Victor Higelin
- start of work period
- 1965-00-00
- end of work period
- 2016-00-00
- pseudonym
- Crabouif
- place of burial
- Père Lachaise Cemetery
- cause of death
- dementia with Lewy bodies
- copyright representative
- SACEM
- social media followers
- 11100
- manner of death
- natural causes
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