Maurane
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Maurane, real name Claudine Luypaerts, (born 12 November 1960) is a Belgian singer. She lives currently in Schaerbeek.

Maurane was born at Ixelles. Her father was director in the Académie de Musique de Verviers
Verviers
Verviers is a Walloon city and municipality located in the Belgian province of Liège. The Verviers municipality includes the old communes of Ensival, Lambermont, Petit-Rechain, Stembert, and Heusy...

, and when she was a teenager she took part in several musical contests. In 1979, she participated in the show, Brel
BREL
British Rail Engineering Limited , was the railway systems engineering division of British Rail, until the design and building of trains in the UK was privatised in 1993. On 31 October 1969, the company was incorporated as British Rail Engineering Limited.-Main products:The vast majority of BREL's...

 en mille temps
, with Philippe Lafontaine
Philippe Lafontaine
Philippe Lafontaine is a Belgian singer and composer.Lafontaine was born in Gosselies, Belgium. He spent a short time in a Jesuit college that he left at 17 to pursue a career in music. His first successes came from the writing and recording of jingles for television commercials Philippe...

, she was discovered there by the French songwriter, Pierre Barouh
Pierre Barouh
Pierre Barouh is a French writer-composer-singer best known for his work on Claude Lelouch's film A Man and a Woman both as actor, and as lyric writer/singer for Francis Lai's music for the film....

.

She later got small contracts singing backing vocals in cafés for Jo Lemaire
Jo Lemaire
Jo Lemaire is a Belgian singer born in Gembloux, Namur. Beyond her native country, she is also popular in France, Switzerland, Canada, and the Netherlands.-Career:...

 and Philippe Lafontaine
Philippe Lafontaine
Philippe Lafontaine is a Belgian singer and composer.Lafontaine was born in Gosselies, Belgium. He spent a short time in a Jesuit college that he left at 17 to pursue a career in music. His first successes came from the writing and recording of jingles for television commercials Philippe...

 until she released her first album in 1986.

She has a daughter named Lou with the singer Pablo Villafranca.

Selected discography

  • Singles
    • 1986 : "Danser"
    • 1988 : "Les uns contre les autres - Toutes les mamas"
    • 1989 : "Tout pour un seul homme - Pas gaie la pagaille"
    • 1990 : "Où es-tu?"
    • 1991 : "Du mal - Mentir"
    • 1992 : "Sur un prélude de Bach" - "Ami ou ennemi" - "Qui es-tu Marie-Jeanne?"
    • 1993 : "Ça casse - Décidément"
    • 1994 : "Boum" (en concert)
    • 1996 : "Différente quand je chante" - "Le paradis c'est l'enfer" - "Juste une petite fille"
    • 1997 : "Tout va bien dans ce monde"
    • 1998 : "L'un pour l'autre" - "Les yeux fermés"
    • 1999 : "Désillusionniste" - "Chanson de l'autruche" (Émilie Jolie) - "La chanson des vieux amants" (en concert)
    • 2000 : "Pour les âmes, pour les hommes" - "Qui à part nous?" - "Il neige des e-mails"
    • 2001 : "Toi du monde"
    • 2002 : "Tu es mon autre
      Tu es mon autre
      "Tu es mon autre" is a 2002 song recorded as a duet by Belgian singers Lara Fabian and Maurane. It was the fifth and last single from Fabian's fifth studio album Nue, and was released in October 2002...

      " (with Lara Fabian
      Lara Fabian
      Lara Fabian is a Belgian-Italian international singer who also holds Canadian citizenship. Multilingual, she sings in French, Italian and English....

      , nominated to Victoires de la Musique
      Victoires de la Musique
      Victoires de la musique , is an annual French award ceremony that recognizes the best musical artists of the year.- Male artist of the year :*1985 : Michel Jonasz*1986 : Jean-Jacques Goldman*1987 : Johnny Hallyday...

      )
    • 2003 : "Tout faux" - "Quand les sangs"
    • 2004 : "Des millions de fois"

  • Albums
    • 1986 : Danser - HLM
    • 1988 : Starmania
      Starmania
      Starmania is a French/Québécois rock opera written in 1976 with music by Michel Berger and lyrics by Luc Plamondon. Some of its songs have passed into mainstream Francophone pop culture.-Genesis:...

      (Rôle de Marie-Jeanne)
    • 1989 : Maurane
    • 1991 : Ami ou ennemi
    • 1994 : Une fille très scène
    • 1996 : Différente - Les années Saravah
    • 1998 : L'un pour l'autre
    • 1999 : Collection master série - Maurane à l'Olympia
    • 2000 : Toi du monde
    • 2003 : Quand l'humain danse
    • 2005 : Un ange passe (as part of the HLM trio)
    • 2007 : Si aujourd'hui
    • 2009 : Nougaro, ou l'esperance en l'homme

Filmography

  • 1987 : Carnaval de Ronny Coutteure
    Ronny Coutteure
    Ronny Coutteure was a Belgian actor. He worked in cinema, radio, television, opera and theatre.He was a celebrity in his home country and in France and is most famous internationally for his supporting role of Remy in the The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles...

     - (TV)
  • 1998 : Le comptoir de Sophie Tatischeff
    Sophie Tatischeff
    Sophie Catherine Tatischeff , was a French film editor and director.Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Tatischeff was the daughter of Jacques Tati and began her career as assistant editor on her father's film Play Time...

  • 2005 : Palais Royal ! de Valérie Lemercier
    Valérie Lemercier
    Valérie Lemercier is a French actress, scriptwriter, director and singer.-Biography:Born in Dieppe, Seine-Maritime as the daughter of farmers, she grew up in Gonzeville and then studied at the Rouen Conservatoire - a dance, music and drama school. Lemercier made her screen debut in 1988, in the...


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