The singer Maurane during the Victoires de la musique 2011. – BERTRAND GUAY / AFP



Maurane died at the age of 57. According to RTBF, the Belgian singer was found inanimate in bed Monday night, around 20h. A magistrate of the parquet floor of Brussels went to his home, specifies the Belgian radio-television.

Maurane had occurred on scene Sunday in Brussels, during a concert in tribute to Jacques Brel. After two years of absence due to vocal cord problems, she had just announced a cover album by Jacques Brel whose first single was to be released this summer, as well as a tour from March 2019.

Maurane – Claudine Luypaerts in civil status – began his career in 1979, at the age of 19 in the show Brel in a thousand times . She also joined the Starmania troupe in the early 1980s, having signed her first opus, Dancing . During her career, she has released eleven studio albums.

Known for her instantly recognizable caressing voice, she has had many successes in her repertoire, including On a Bach Prelude ] All mamas or again You are my other she sang in duet with Lara Fabian

In France, where she was made Officer of Arts and Letters in 2011, she participated in the jury of the telecopress Nouvelle Star, the time of two seasons, from 2012 to 2014, on D8 (today C8). It was also seen in a handful of small movie roles including The Fallow Head Good Recovery and The Red Necklace made by Jean Becker.