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(Redirected from J.J. Lionel) Belgian musician (1947–2020)
Jean-Jacques Lionel
Background information
Birth nameJean-Jacques Blairon
Born(1947-08-09)9 August 1947
Binche, Belgium
Died14 July 2020(2020-07-14) (aged 72)
Comines-Warneton, Belgium
GenresAlternative rock, rock and roll, gospel, Blues
OccupationSinger
InstrumentBass
Years active1970–2020
Formerly ofWallace Collection
Musical artist

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.

References

  1. Triste nouvelle: J.J. Lionel, l’interprète de la «Danse des canards», est décédé (in French)
  2. "J.J. Lionel – artiste – sa discographie sur B&M". Bide-et-musique.com. Retrieved 28 December 2011.
  3. "Inusable « Danse des canards »". leparisien.fr (in French). 1 August 2012.
  4. "La Danse des canards a 30 ans". rtbf.be (in French). 20 May 2011.

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