Brel est l'un des plus grands paroliers et chanteurs francophones! Il est belge et même flamand, sa langue maternelle est le flamand. Toutes ses chansons sont très fortes et puissantes autant dans le texte que l'interprétation. Même ses chansons drôles sont très belles et si bien écrites. Un génie!

@alexis_heym708

2 жыл бұрын

il était né d'un père Flamand mais il est Bruxellois.

@cellevangiel5973

9 ай бұрын

Et bourgois.@@alexis_heym708

@GuyWets-zy5yt

27 күн бұрын

Oui,né à Schaerbeek...pére flamand francophone...école à St Louis....

This is bringing up a flood of childhood memories 😁 "Ne me quitte pas" has always my favourite

This literally made my day. I can't stop listening to it!

finally a coach who says relevant things and doesn't just shake his head. It's so relevant that he uses the words of Brel who said that it's not a natural act to go on stage to sing. Every time he went on stage he totally pulled out his guts and ended up exhausted, having lost several pounds. Brel is a monument of French song and a man of incredible human value. He left in full glory, on a boat to go around the world and live on a small island in the Marquesas when he felt that he was simply doing a job and no longer that he was fighting a fight every night on stage. It's all my childhood and my adolescence that comes back when I hear it...

@french.blackdevil1967

9 ай бұрын

Ahhhh Jacques Brel.. C'était une bête de scène. Que d'émotions que de passions. Sa façon de se dépouiller sur scène n'aura jamais d'égal..😍😍🤩🤩💖💖

I love how he’s sweating so early in the song… He’s not just telling the story with his voice and his words, he is really feeling it in his body and in his heart and it’s manifesting in sweat.

@joekel55

3 жыл бұрын

When he sang he was always sweating,

@linaskranauskas

2 жыл бұрын

he might have performed 8 songs already before this one.

@sandrinecozic7214

2 жыл бұрын

He was always like that in his song

@k.v.7681

Жыл бұрын

Stage lighting at the time was HEAVY duty. Even today with the blessing of AC you get to 40°C. AT the time, it was around 55/60°C. Imagine performing in the Sahara at noon dressed in a full suit.

Brel had stage fright so he sweated, he is very very genuine!

Jacques Brel also made a great movie actor career. Definitely a multi-talented artist!

You should do " ne me quite pas" =" don't leave me" , that shows what a great singer he was.

You should look at “c’est gens la”. The life version. Incredible performance.

You're absolutely correct about french songs, we kind of use the language as an instrument in a sense, even more than the voice. Actually a lot of famous french singers (especially from the past) don't have such a great singing voice, because we're more sensible to the lyrics, the emotions, the attitude. French language is poetic and metaphorical by essence, it's like the language itself is a figure of speech.

I love Jacques Brel. "Amsterdam" and "L'amour est mort" are my favourites. He sung some songs in Flemish/Flaams as well. (And btw, if you enjoy different languages, Floor sings the wonderful "Mama" in Dutch on Beste Zangers.)

His song "Mathilde" is my favorite! :) The best video of this song in live is: "Mathilde Jacques Brel (live)" on "Cadence Info" YT channel. ;)

Love this song, so representaive of Brel's work. He is playing a caracter, he lets the story unveil itself gradually, and throws his sucker punch in the end, trying to blow you off the char with a last twist. Often his characher evloves and changes in the course of the song, something I ve never seen at other song creators. Particullary with "La fannete" he manages to paint a whole story in very few words, which is even greater. A true master of his art.

Brel wrote and composed all his songs, so he wrote them for himself. And not just one but I assume 150. And he was a great poet. And when he stopped singing he became an actor; what he was.

He does speak french but it's important to remember that he is belgian and then speaks in a "Belgian French". His accent, his themes, his behavior, the word he used,... everything is so Belgian about him that can't remove that from his work

@sandrinecozic7214

2 жыл бұрын

Pfff il parle français point barre

@gatoski3603

2 жыл бұрын

@@sandrinecozic7214 tu sais pas lire ?

@gatoski3603

2 жыл бұрын

@Aziri Alain quelle mauvaise foie dégueulasse, c'est fou ! Pour l'accent même sans parlant de chanson entière qu'il chante en flamand (langue belge principale) on peut toute de suite aller écouter les bonbons ou encore Ces gens la. Pour les mots même choses, il dit nonante ou septante, tantôt, emploie une quantité astronomique de prénom belge. Il réfère la Belgique ou sa culture dans quasiment chaque chanson que ce soit le plat pays, les flamandes ou encore Bruxelles. Tout ceci était les exemples qui me sont venu mais un peu de réflexion et de recherche ne feront que prouver mon point, Monsieur il faut savoir se taire quand on ne sait pas. Pas besoin de s'inventer un nationalisme quand il existe déjà depuis 2000ans. Le français typique ici c'est vous, ignorant et arrogant. Vous pouvez essayer aussi difficilement que vous pouvez Jacques Brel ne sera Jamais français.

@yousseflrdh8419

2 жыл бұрын

@Aziri Alain Personne n'invente de langue ici. Gatoski ne souligne que les différence entre le français parlé en Belgique et en France. Différence qui existe. D'ailleurs Jacques Brel utilisait des mots provenant du Wallons (langue typiquement belge) mais aussi de différents patois Flamands très différents du néerlandais. Techniquement, le Français appartient tout autant au Belge qu'au Français. Apparu au même moment e France qu'en Belgique deux régions partageant des ancêtres commun ainsi qu'un histoire commune avec les gaulois, romains et francs qui donneront plus tard leur nom à la France alors que la Belgique restera toujours plus ou moins indépendante du reste des francs.

@bertrandgatot8598

2 жыл бұрын

@@sandrinecozic7214 Donc pour toi un artiste ou n'importe qui n'est défini que par sa langue? Est-ce que un personne parlant français est considérée française à tout les coups ou il faut qu'elle fasse d'aussi bonne chose que Brel?

Brel smoked 2 packs of heavy gitana cigarettes a day. Imagine that.

@RogerRamos1993

7 ай бұрын

I read that it was about a 100. In interviews, he smoked all the time. Like one cig every 5 minutes.

oh , you should listen "Ces gens la", "madeleine", "orly" So much song from J. Brel that are Monument !

Just so you know about the sweats, he's wearing a suit and tie, the lights are hot, and he's pretty physical in his singing, especially for those days.

He has other songs that he doesnt sing so smoothly. And this singing goes back to the beginning of his career

He's sweating because of the length and intensity of his stage performances under old studio lights. Each song is like a one act play. His work was performed in English in the off Broadway show "Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris".

@GuyWets-zy5yt

27 күн бұрын

He was very sick before each gala! He was an actor too...

@elliotwalton6159

27 күн бұрын

@@GuyWets-zy5yt Thanks. I've been listening to Brel since the 1970s and I've never heard about his stage fright until now. It somehow never came up in any of the literature I'd read about Brel. I remember his passing and was very saddened by it at the time. Such a performer.

Hello thank you for this uploading.I love this singer so much, great great writer so emotional.He lives his songs like an actor and if you read my comment you have to listen to 2 another songs,ORLY and LES MARQUISES from his last but not the least album.They're two masterpieces for sure.Anytime i listen to i got goosebumps and chilled in my spine.

There's a skeleton buried under the floorboards of La Fanette. Brel said in interview it was 'the story of a perfect crime'. Listen to it again with that in mind, it makes sense.

si il sue beaucoup, c'est à cause des lumières qui sont là pour pouvoir le filmer, et elles sont très chaudes ou plutôt rayonnante. il doit faire 45°c sur les projecteurs

Really liked this. Just one small correction: la plage est déserte means the beach is abandoned, not 'a desert'.

He was also a great actor .

You should listen more of Jaques Brel, " Ne me quitte pas", " Quand on a que l'amour ", "Le port d'Amsterdam "...

Epic

You should listen to the original version of ..Je suis malade with Serge Lama

May I ask y when you will come back on twitch ?

it is a beautiful song really beautifull. do you know ces gens la from him. And could you react to La Boheme avec Paroles from Mr Aznavour or comme ils disent. beautifull songs and deep. Have a nice day

I like the fact that you don't react to french songs cause its popular in the moment.. Please can you react to others songs of Brel ?

@BigBrainSinger

2 жыл бұрын

I love his singing and there are more coming up!

This guy knows fuck all

Clever react, I like your sobriety. Brel still irks me. So glad I could see him live before he died.

You should ty to find 2 songs from Jacques Brel 1) Les Vieux, 2) La valse à 1000 temps

Try it in Dutch (never had any trouble understanding that song even when I didn't speak Dutch): Jacques Brel - (les paumés du petit matin) Nuttelozen Van de Nacht - KZread: kzread.info/dash/bejne/nq5rzNCrocXQh7A.html

Jacques Brel had a love hate reliationship with performing. When you see him singing "Ces gens la", "les bonbons" or "Ne me quittes pas", you see that he performs with every part of his body and such passion but in the meanwhile he later stated that it was abnormal to sing in public. He was throwing before and after each of his performance of his whole career and stopped doing concert quite early

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not traditionally good looking but his charisma is trough the roof

So french you said... but Brel was belgum, so belgum.

@sandrinecozic7214

2 жыл бұрын

He speak french ...

@AlbertNonime

2 жыл бұрын

@@sandrinecozic7214 yes he spoke duch too, both languages of his country, but that s not the point. It's just a bit offensive for belgums. Belgium has soo many great artists for such a small country!

@schenier

2 жыл бұрын

je was saying french worth a small f, as in the language not with a big F , French, as the countrymen. get over it

@reynaldparisel3852

2 жыл бұрын

Ouais... ben sans sa carrière en France, Brel n'aurait jamais été connu !

@AlbertNonime

2 жыл бұрын

@@reynaldparisel3852 c'est pas faux. Nevertheless...

I really don't think this is stage fright :) Just like with Freddie Mercury who was soaking wet by the second number in every concert

@schenier

2 жыл бұрын

he was known to have stage fright. he b wanted to write songs, but sing them but couldn't find signers for his songs

@linaskranauskas

2 жыл бұрын

@@schenier I'm not saying he had no stage fright. I'm saying that stage lights and passionate singing (when you use every muscle in your face and whatnot), and warm outfits contribute more to this sweating

Though the translation is very good, it cannot convey the poetry and the subtlety of the syntactic construction. If you're not fluent in French, I would even say if your French isn't strong, it's impossible to fully understand Brel's talent. Even without the music, his songs are powerful. That said, I can only praise English-speaking person's interest in Brel's repertoire.

I'm offended what you said about the German language. You never listen to some great German artists singing German. It is always who sings what. Nobody can be compared with Jacques Brel.