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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Claudine Luypaerts |
| Also known as | Claudie Claude, Claude Maurane |
| Born | (1960-11-12)12 November 1960 Ixelles, Belgium |
| Died | 7 May 2018(2018-05-07) (aged 57) Schaerbeek, Belgium |
| Genres | |
| Occupation(s) | Singer, actress |
| Years active | 1979–2018 |
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Claudine Luypaerts, better known asMaurane (pronounced[moʁan]; 12 November 1960 – 7 May 2018), was a Francophone Belgian singer and actress.
Brought to light in the 1980s with her role as Marie-Jeanne in the second version of therock operaStarmania, her best-known titles are "Toutes les mamas", "Sur un prélude de Bach" and "Tu es mon autre" (in a duet withLara Fabian).[1] She was regularly referred to as a "golden voice of francophone song,"[2][3] or having a "velvet voice."[4][5]
Claudine Luypaerts was born on 12 November 1960 inIxelles, Brussels, to Guy-Philippe Luypaerts,[6] a composer and director of Académie de Musique ofVerviers, and Jeannie Patureaux, a piano teacher.[7] When she was young, she studied the violin for a while, but was put off by all forms of schooling and began to learn to sing and play the piano on her own, before preferring the guitar.[3][8]
In 1976, she was second in the Visa competition for the show and, the following year, took part in the Lundis d'Hortense, for which she adopted thestage name "Claudie Claude".[8]
In 1979, Maurane took part in the showBrel en mille temps, withPhilippe Lafontaine, where she was discovered by the French songwriterPierre Barouh. Founder of theSaravah label, he produced her first singles which were released starting in 1980 under the pseudonym "Claude Maurane".[8] The latter is a reference to the director Francis Morane who worked onStarmania. However, it is spelled slightly differently in order to avoid confusion with theBob Morane comic strip,[9] even though she is sometimes credited under this spelling.[note 1]
The first singles - "J'me roule en boule" (1980), "Fais soleil" (1982), "T'as pas la pêche" (1984), "Moi l'argent, toi jeune" (1985) - did not meet with much success. She later got a string of small contracts, singing in the street or in cafés and to be a backing singer, notably forViktor Lazlo,Jo Lemaire or Philippe Lafontaine.[3]
Her career only really took off in 1983 when she first performed at the Sentier des Halles in Paris. The show's success allowed her to record her first album,Danser, produced bySaravah, Éditions 23 and Franc'Amour, which was released in 1986.[3]
In 1988,Michel Berger cast her in the role of Marie-Jeanne, created in 1978 byFabienne Thibeault. She sang in the second version of therock operaStarmania, which toured for six months withRenaud Hantson, Sabrina Lory, Wenta,Martine St. Clair, Peter Lorne and the brothers Norman and Richard Groulx. Performing this role at the same time as her singing career proved to be difficult for her, leading her to suddenly stop performing in the rock opera.[10] She was replaced by Réjane Perry for the rest of the tour.
Her second album,Maurane, was released in 1989 onPolydor and proved to be a success, selling 150,000 copies.[3] The album contains one of her most popular songsː "Toutes les mamas," and its success led her to perform at theOlympia then on an international tour that ended in Japan.[3] In July 1989, Maurane was awarded both theRadio France Internationale's femaleOctave, and theFestival d'été de Québec award.[3]
In 1991, theAmi ou ennemi album was released, continuing the previous success and selling very well over time – nearly 450,000 copies were sold[2] – thanks to titles such as "Ça casse," "Du mal," "Mentir" and particularlyJean-Claude Vannier's "Sur un prélude de Bach," which would have a resounding impact on her career. The album also includes a song about her connection to the character she played inStarmania: "Qui es-tu Marie-Jeanne?"
She played a second time at the Olympia in May 1992, then toured Europe in Autumn 1992 and March–April 1993. She also performed a few festival dates, such as thePrintemps de Bourges in April and theFrancofolies in July 1993. Following these series of concerts, a live album entitledUne fille très scène, recorded at the Olympia in August 1993, was released in April 1994.[3]
In 1994, Maurane received the Francophone Artist of the Year award at theVictoires de la musique, beatingCéline Dion andStephan Eicher.[11] She had previously been nominated for the Female Artist of the Year award at the 1992Victoires,[12] but lost toJane Birkin.[13]
In November 1995, Maurane releasedDifférente, her fourth studio album, with Philippe Lafontaine and Jean-Claude Vannier still by her side. This release was followed by a concert tour created in collaboration with pianist Arnould Massart and the Guildhall String Ensemble.[3]
Appreciated by her fellow artists, she was regularly solicited for charitable acts[3] and, since 1993, had been involved in the fight againstAIDS withFrancis Cabrel,Michel Jonasz,Catherine Lara,Maxime Le Forestier andAlain Souchon. The group of artists gave a concert at the Olympia to raise funds for theSol En Si ("Solidarité Enfants Sida") association and a live album was released. Four years later, they were joined by Zazie. Over time, various live and studio albums would be released and the band grew larger in size. Between 1996 and 2013, on fourteen occasions, Maurane also participated in theEnfoirés concerts supporting theRestos du cœur before leaving the troupe in 2015, due to a lack of motivation.[14]
In 1998, she releasedL'un pour l'autre, a 'best-of' compilation, including five new tracks, whose title song earned her, and songwriter Peter Lorne, the 1998Oscar de la chanson française.[3]
At the dawn of the new century, Maurane began writing a new album. After working with several collaborators, she would finally end up with a trustworthy team, composed of Tomàs Gubitsch, Jean Dindinaud and Nicolas Repac. These three would help her in dealing with her father's death in 1999, and support her through the making ofToi du monde, her fifth album, released in August 2000. This release turned out darker than usual for Maurane, and was influenced by world music.[3]
In 2003, the albumQuand l'humain danse was released, a very personal album involving songwriters such asJean-Jacques Goldman,Daniel Lavoie,Louise Forestier,Gildas Arzel and Jean-Claude Vannier and featuring duets withMarc Lavoine ("Un pays mais"),Lara Fabian ("Mais la vie") andVéronique Sanson ("Petites minutes cannibales"), all written by Peter Lorne. In 2004, a new live album,L'heureux tour, transcribed the tour that followed.[3]
In January 2007, Maurane releasedSi aujourd'hui, which did not meet with the success of her previous works. In June of the same year, her autobiography was published, titled "La Vie en Rouge", co-written with journalist Thierry Coljon.[3]
In January 2008, she recorded "The Baltimore Project" withJacques Higelin, Riké and the group Sweet Air, in support of hostages around the world, includingÍngrid Betancourt. In September 2009, as a tribute to her friendClaude Nougaro, who would have turned 80, she released a cover album entitledNougaro ou l'espérance en l'homme. Just as her Nougaro tribute was releasing, she spent six days withGil Goldstein andJay Newland in New York to record her jazz-influencedFais-moi une fleur record, released in September 2011.[3]
From November 2012 to February 2013, then from October 2013 to February 2014, she was a member of the jury of the French TV talent showNouvelle Star onD8 alongsideAndré Manoukian,Sinclair and Olivier Bas.[3]
In September 2014, the song "Trop Forte" was released, written by Pierre-Yves Lebert and Daran about the mental difficulties of being overweight, a theme that Maurane had never dared to address until then. This was the first single from her albumOuvre, released in November 2014.[3] A series of other personal subjects were also tackled on the album, such as an open letter for her daughter on "Je voudrais tout te dire."[15]
In 2016, she suffered from health issues and had to undergo an operation for oedema of the vocal cords, forcing her to cancel her concerts[16] and keep her away from the stage until 2018.
In March 2018, the singer announced, via a video recorded in the offices of her label Polydor and posted on social networks, that her next album would be aJacques Brel tribute album, explaining she had "been dreaming about it for 15 years, 20 years".[17] On 3 May 2018, she covered Brel's "La chanson des vieux amants" at the Inc'Rock Festival, as a duet withTyph Barrow.[18] This performance was repeated on 6 May 2018, during theIris Festival, alongside twenty or so artists, all of them celebrating Jacques Brel.[19] Less than twenty-four hours after her last public appearance, Maurane was found dead in Schaerbeek.
On 7 May 2018, Maurane was found dead beside her bath at her home inSchaerbeek in the area of Brussels, Belgium.[20] The following day, the magistrate of the Brussels public prosecutor's office confirmed the opening of a judicial inquiry, although the death of the singer was not considered as suspect.[21] One month later, on 15 June 2018, the public prosecutor's office closed the case for lack of evidence of criminality, declaring that the singer's death was accidental[22] and stating that "no further comments or details will be communicated".[23] On 15 July, Maurane's daughter succinctly explained toLe Parisien that her mother had fallen.[24]
Her funeral was held on 17 May 2018 in the church of Notre-Dame-des-Grâces inWoluwe-Saint-Pierre, a municipality in the Brussels region, and was followed by her burial in the cemetery ofAuderghem, another municipality in the Belgian capital region where Maurane lived as a child. Hundreds of people came to pay their respects, as well as many artists who had travelled from France, such asMuriel Robin,Lara Fabian,Maxime Le Forestier,Zazie,Pascal Obispo,Michel Fugain,Francis Cabrel andPhilip Catherine.[25][26]
On 12 October 2018, her albumBrel, finished, post-mortem, by Maurane's daughter and her pianist Philippe Decok, was released.[27] The album is certified gold in Belgium.[28]
Throughout her career, she performed duets with various artists such asCatherine Lara ("La Langue des Anges," in 1991),Michel Fugain (three live duets at the 1996Francofolies de La Rochelle[29]),Eddy Mitchell, who wrote "C'est magique" in 1998 andLara Fabian ("Tu es mon autre," in 2001). The singer also released two albums in trio withSteve Houben andCharles Loos under the nameHLM (Houben, Loos, Maurane) in 1986[30] and 2005.[31]
On 29 December 1993, Maurane and singer Pablo Villafranca, whom she married in June 1992,[3] became parents of a daughter, Lou.[32][33] Despite their separation, Villafranca still sang as a backing vocalist on her 1995 albumDifférente. He also appeared in the music video for the song "Sur un prélude de Bach" and participated in the TV promo for the song "Désillusionniste."[34]
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