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, ...
Jacques Brel’s rise to legendary status in the English speaking world was achieved posthumously and by stealth. Type his name into the UK Official Charts’ search engine for instance, and your total ...
Jacques Brel was one of the great representatives of French chanson in the post-World War II period. Born into a bourgeois family, Brel rejected the future awaiting him in his father’s cardboard ...