First off, Jacques Brel is not alive. The Belgian crooner died of a pulmonary embolism back in 1978, 10 years after this musical revue made its debut off-­Broadway. The revue came in the autumn of a ...

The cast of "Jacques Brel Is Alive And Well And Living in Paris" at the Gloucester Stage Company. (Gary Ng) Four singers inhabited a collection of French and Belgian characters — two middle-aged and ...

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 Romain Georges Brel (8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978) was a Belgian singer, songwriter, actor and director who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a ...

Brussels, Belgium – The memory of singer-songwriter Jacques Brel is alive and well and living in his native Belgium. The chanteur who thrilled crowds with songs including “If We Only Have Love” and ...

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 ...

Jacques Brel is alive and well — at least in album production. Twenty-five years after his passing, Brel again looks headed to the upper reaches of the French music charts with a new 16-disc ...

Jacques Brel, a Belgian born singer-songwriter who spent most of his life in Paris, passed away in 1978. But the cabaret-style show he created in 1966, “Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in ...

Controversy has tainted celebrations for the 30th anniversary of the death of Belgian poet-singer-actor Jacques Brel after his daughter slammed a Paris Sotheby's auction of memorabilia as 'odious and ...