Maurane

Claudine Luypaerts better known as Maurane 12 November 1960 7 May 2018 was a Francophone Belgian singer and actress Brought to light in the 1980s with her role as MarieJeanne in the second version of the rock opera Starmania her bestknown titles are Toutes les mamas Sur un prélude de Bach and Tu es mon autre in a duet with Lara Fabian She was regularly referred to as a golden voice of francophone song or having a velvet voice Claudine Luypaerts was born on 12 November 1960 in Ixelles Brussels to GuyPhilippe Luypaerts a composer and director of Académie de Musique of Verviers and Jeannie Patureaux a piano teacher 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 In 1976 she was second in the Visa competition for the show and the following year took part in the Lundis dHortense for which she adopted the stage name Claudie Claude In 1979 Maurane took part in the show Brel en mille temps with Philippe Lafontaine where she was discovered by the French songwriter Pierre Barouh Founder of the Saravah label he produced her first singles which were released starting in 1980 under the pseudonym Claude Maurane The latter is a reference to the director Francis Morane who worked on Starmania However it is spelled slightly differently in order to avoid confusion with the Bob Morane comic strip9 even though she is sometimes credited under this spelling The first singles Jme roule en boule 1980 Fais soleil 1982 Tas pas la pêche 1984 Moi largent 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 for Viktor Lazlo Jo Lemaire or Philippe Lafontaine Her career only really took off in 1983 when she first performed at the Sentier des Halles in Paris The shows success allowed her to record her first album Danser produced by Saravah Éditions 23 and FrancAmour which was released in 1986 In 1988 Michel Berger cast her in the role of MarieJeanne created in 1978 by Fabienne Thibeault She sang in the second version of the rock opera Starmania which toured for six months with Renaud 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 opera10 She was replaced by Réjane Perry for the rest of the tour Her second album Maurane was released in 1989 on Polydor and proved to be a success selling 150000 copies The album contains one of her most popular songs? Toutes les mamas and its success led her to perform at the Olympia then on an international tour that ended in Japan In July 1989 Maurane was awarded both the Radio France Internationales female Octave and the Festival dété de Québec award Source Article Maurane from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30