About Jean-Jacques Blairon
Lived 1947 – 2020 (aged 72). Jean-Jacques Blairon was a Belgian singer.
Jean-Jacques Blairon (9 August 1947 – 14 July 2020) was a Belgian musician active in the 1980s under the name J. J. Lionel.
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. 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.
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Who was Jean-Jacques Blairon?
musician
When was Jean-Jacques Blairon born?
Jean-Jacques Blairon was born on 9 August 1947 in Soignies, Binche.
When did Jean-Jacques Blairon die?
Jean-Jacques Blairon died on 14 July 2020 in Comines-Warneton.
What was Jean-Jacques Blairon's occupation?
Jean-Jacques Blairon was a singer.
What nationality was Jean-Jacques Blairon?
Jean-Jacques Blairon was Belgian.
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