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Birth Date:: 12.11.1960
Death date:: 07.05.2018
Person's maiden name:: Claudine Luypaerts
Categories:: Actor, Singer
Nationality:: belgian
Cemetery:: Set cemetery

Maurane (born Claudine Luypaerts; 12 November 1960 – 7 May 2018) was a Belgian singer and actress.

Life

Maurane was born in Ixelles. Her father was director in the Académie de Musique de Verviers, and when she was a teenager she took part in several musical contests. In 1979, she participated in the show, Brel en mille temps, with Philippe Lafontaine, she was discovered there by the French songwriter, Pierre Barouh.

She later got small contracts singing backing vocals in cafés for Jo Lemaireand Philippe Lafontaine until she released her first album in 1986.

In 2012, she became a member of the Jury in Nouvelle Star broadcast on television station D8.

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

Maurane died in Schaerbeek, Belgium on 7 May 2018 at the age of 57.

Honours

1986 - Prix Rapsat-Lelièvre

Selected discography

Albums

1986 : Danser - HLM
1988 : Starmania (Rôle de Marie-Jeanne)
1989 : Maurane (100 000 copies selling - Gold Disc in France)
1991 : Ami ou ennemi (300 000 copies selling - Platinum Disc in France)
1994 : Une fille très scène
1996 : Différente - Les années Saravah (100 000 copies selling - Gold Disc in France)
1998 : L'un pour l'autre (300 000 copies selling - Platinum Disc in France)
1999 : Collection master série - Maurane à l'Olympia
2000 : Toi du monde (50 000 copies selling)
2003 : Quand l'humain danse (200 000 copies selling - Gold Disc in Belgium & Double Gold Disc in France))
2005 : Un ange passe (as part of the HLM trio)
2007 : Si aujourd'hui (100 000 copies selling - Platinum Disc in Belgium & Gold Disc in France)
2009 : Nougaro, ou l'esperance en l'homme (130 000 copies selling - Platinum Disc in France)
2014 : Ouvre

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" (with Lara Fabian, nominated to Victoires de la Musique)
2003 : "Tout faux" - "Quand les sangs"
2004 : "Des millions de fois"
2014 : "Trop forte"