The Belgian singer-songwriter known as Jacques Brel does not get nearly enough credit for his influence on the popular music of the latter half of the 20th century and beyond. I’d argue that’s because ...

Buttressed by Arnold Johnston’s sharp new translations of the songs, this well-wrought tribute to the Belgian cabaret genius feels brighter and more vibrant than the better-known revue Jacques Brel Is ...

“I’d heard of Piaf before, and I think I’d heard of Brel, but I didn’t know what it was,” Byron Jones says. The North Carolina native had lived and studied in France and earned degrees in both French ...

A cabaret of songs by the Belgian master of modern “chanson.” Known for his devastatingly personal, heart-wrenching lyrics, but also for his scathingly sarcastic depiction of society, Jacques Brel and ...

Charlotte’s Off-Broadway is taking audiences back to 1973 with its next production, a groovy evening of Jacques Brel songs inspired by Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, featuring an ...

When the Belgian singer/songwriter Jacques Brel had his American debut at Carnegie Hall on Dec. 4, 1965, his passionate lyrics and soulful delivery — by turns funny, poetic, heartbreaking, bitter, ...

Jacques Brel was one of the great representatives of French chanson in the post-World War II period. Born into a bourgeois family, Brel rejected the future awaiting him in his father’s cardboard ...

CD is Jazz/Cabaret Vocalist/Composer's Eighth Release and Pays Homage to Legendary French Singer-Songwriter Jacques Brel “In her presence you get that rare whiff of greatness," says The New York Times ...

Any Scot who’s been labelled English will understand how Jacques Brel felt about being called French. The great chansonnier, who has been far from alive and well these past 36 years (he died of lung ...