Belgische muziek - La musique belge

**MsSPF** · 10-21-2016, 03:59 PM

Originally Posted by Danielion

Axelle Red. She's from Limburg, by the way. Very well known in France?

Yes in the 90's/beginning 2000's she was popular thanks to that song and the song she did with Renaud "Manhattan Kaboul". Now she completely disappeared.

**Dandelion** · 10-21-2016, 04:00 PM

Originally Posted by MsSPF

Yes in the 90's/beginning 2000's she was popular thanks to that song and the song she did with Renaud "Manhattan Kaboul". Now she completely disappeared.

We neither here much about her nowadays.

**MsSPF** · 10-21-2016, 04:05 PM

Originally Posted by Danielion

We neither here much about her nowadays.

Yes she had her time, became popular as fast as she vanished. Contrary to Jacques Brel who is a real legend and did ones of the most beautiful songs in French language. I am big fan of him.

**Dandelion** · 10-21-2016, 05:02 PM

Originally Posted by MsSPF

Yes she had her time, became popular as fast as she vanished. Contrary to Jacques Brel who is a real legend and did ones of the most beautiful songs in French language. I am big fan of him.

A good artist Brel and a bit of a troll avant-le-lettre as a person. Coming from a rich West Flemish bourgeois family that raised their kids in French only, he often claimed to be a Fleming himself not without being a douche-bag toward Dutch-speakers. Often he wasn't even joking. He's a product of a different time though, so when he called Flanders (I prefer 'Flemish Region', but that didn't exist back then) a backward region held back by the Catholic Church, he was telling the truth I guess (not true for Antwerp though, but I guess it is for West Flanders).

I think it's the Belgian disease, failure to communicate out of sheer stubbornness and resulting in a pissing contest. He wasn't a bad person regardless and indeed a great artist. He's honoured as such also here in the Dutch-speaking North. I have heard him a bit too often to be a fan of his nowadays, but I have albums of his nonetheless.