The most famous singer of the French song was a Belgian, as Jacques Brel was born in 1929 in the Brussels district of Schaerbeek people. Initially, it appeared that not Brel the music went. He married and started a family. From 1950 he had some small success in Belgium, but in 1954 he decided to take the step to Paris. He became the most famous singer of his time, which especially struck by his
… direct lyrics and passionate speech. Both aspects are crystallized in his famous song Ne Me Quitte Pas (1959). In the early seventies he retired from the music, got his pilot's license and traveled the world. In 1978 Brel died, a lifelong heavy smoker, to lung cancer.more
