Heartland - Once A Woman Gets A Hold Of Your Heart

BREL (Brel) Jacques (8 IV 1929, Brussels - 8 X 1978, Paris, buried on the Marquesas Islands) - French. chansonnier, poet, composer, actor and director. Belgian by birth. In 1953 he made his debut in Paris as a chansonnier. In 1955 with amer. jazz musician S. Beshet made a tour in France and North. Africa. In 1957-66 he sang in the largest conc. the halls of France and other countries (in 1965 in the USSR). Since 1967 he worked in the cinema (among the films in which he acted as an actor and composer - “Professional Risk”, “My Uncle Benjamin”, “Killers in the Name of Order”; at the same time. And as a director - “Franz”), since 1968 in the theater (performed as an actor, director and music arranger in the musical “Man from La Mancha” by Lee and Wasserman; subsequently staged several more musical performances). Creativity B., characterized by lyricism, scourges the bourgeois. philistinism and vulgarity. In addition to songs, he owns productions. other genres, including the opera Journey to the Moon (Vojage dans la lune, 1969, Brussels), Dep. numbers from muses. comedy "Kolovorot", from the radio play "Idiot" by F. M. Dostoevsky, music for films.