Jean-Jacques Lionel | |
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Background: | solo_singer |
Birth Name: | Jean-Jacques Blairon |
Birth Date: | 1947 8, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Binche, Belgium |
Death Place: | Comines-Warneton, Belgium |
Genre: | Alternative rock, rock and roll, gospel, Blues |
Occupation: | Singer |
Instrument: | Bass |
Years Active: | 1970–2020 |
Past Member Of: | Wallace Collection |
Jean-Jacques Blairon (9 August 1947 – 14 July 2020)[1] was a Belgian musician active in the 1980s under the name J. J. Lionel.[2]
He is best known for La Danse des canards, released in 1981. This version became the best-selling French-language song in France in the 1980s.[3] It appeared in the 1983 Guinness Book of Records with 2,500,000 copies sold. Thirty years after the song's release, this amount had risen to 3.5 million.[4]