Singer Jean-Louis Murat died Thursday May 25, learned The world. He was 71 years old.
Born Jean-Louis Bergheaud on January 28, 1952, Jean-Louis Murat had recorded around twenty albums, including Doloresin 1996, The Moujik and his wifein 2002 or A bird on a pear in 2004. A best-of album by the artist, bringing together 20 of his most emblematic titles, is due out on Friday.
Recognizable by his blue gaze, his disheveled brown hair and his haunting voice, Jean-Louis Murat is inseparable from Puy-de-Dôme, where he never stopped living. According to his former record company Pias, quoted by Agence France-Presse, it was at his home in Auvergne that he died.
“New Feeling”, “Fort Alamo” “If I should miss you” : his groove as well as his independence tinged with provocation have made him a special artist in the French musical world.
Willingly provocative
The singer reached the top of the charts in 1991 thanks to a duet with Mylène Farmer (“Regrets”) but claims to have always lived the ” tube “ as “a confinement”. “What I like is the song that becomes a hit, not the song that’s already a hit before people hear it” due to calibrated production, he told Agence France-Presse in 2014.
Willingly provocative, had caused a scandal in his debut with “Commit suicide the people are dead”, some media fearing that this title is an incitement to suicide. The cover was signed by the photographer of the stars Jean-Baptiste Mondino. He will know his first commercial success at the end of the 80s with “If I should miss you”.
In my albums, “I recount down to the most infinite detail my whole sentimental life, as since the beginning of my career”, he said, at more than 60 years old. Extremely prolific, he released almost one album a year in recent years.
