"Sentiment Nouveau", "Fort Alamo" "Si je vaisvais manque de toi": his groove and his throbbing voice so particular as well as his independence tinged with provocation have made him an artist apart in the French musical world.
Coincidentally, the Pias label is due to release a best of the singer on Friday, bringing together 20 of his most emblematic titles.
The singer, who claimed his Auvergne membership, experienced the top of the charts in 1991 thanks to a duet with Mylène Farmer ("Regrets") but ensures to have always lived the "tube" as "a confinement".
"What I like is the song that becomes a hit, not the song that is already a hit before people have heard it" because of a calibrated production, he told AFP in 2014.
Willingly provocative, Jean-Louis Murat, born in 1952 in the Puy-de-Dôme, had caused a scandal at his debut with "Suicidez-vous le peuple est mort", some media fearing that this title is an incitement to suicide. The cover was signed by the photographer of the stars Jean-Baptiste Mondino.
Jean-Louis Murat at the Francofolies in La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, July 14, 2014 © Xavier LEOTY / AFP/Archives
He will know his first commercial success at the end of the 80s with "If I had to miss you".
In my albums, "I tell down to the most infinite detail all my love life, as since the beginning of my career," he said, at more than 60 years old. Extremely prolific, he released almost one album a year in recent years.
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