Jacques Brel
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"Les Bourgeois, c'est comme les cochons" --"Les Bourgeois" (1962) by Jacques Brel. "Moi, je t'offrirai des perles de pluie venues de pays où il ne pleut pas" ("I'll offer you pearls of rain from lands where it does not rain")" --"Ne me quitte pas" (1959) |
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Jacques Brel (1929 – 1978) was a Belgian singer-songwriter known for songs such as "Ne me quitte pas" (1959).
Brel's songs are not especially well known in the English-speaking world except in translation and through the interpretations of other singers, most famously Scott Walker.
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