DEATH OF MAURANNE WHEN MAURANNE GOES BRUTALLY WITH HIS VOICE OF VELVET

"I am devastated to hear this news. It's terrible. We have forty years of friendship, " Catherine Lara reacted on Europe 1. She had found Maurane "tired" during their last meeting. "But she told me about the future, she told me that she was preparing an album of Jacques Brel, which she was listening to. She seemed to be much better from that point of view, " she added.

"I can not believe that our voices will ever come together," said singer Hélène Segara.

From Montreal, singer Lara Fabian has hailed a "rare" artist, "bigger than music".

She was the figurehead of Les Enfoirés shows, she released ten solo albums with mythical titles.

Maurane is known since the late 1980s for his participation in a new version of the musical Starmania co-produced by Michel Berger. She had put her career in brackets in 2015 because of "vocal cord problems". But she had just begun her return. She had herself announced this return in recent days on social networks. "Today, I officially set foot on a stage after more than 2 years of absence. I will not tell you in what state I am ... You must be aware, " she wrote last Thursday on his Facebook page, before a party devoted to Brel in Wallonia.

Maurane was preparing a tour for the spring of 2019, in the wake of an album dedicated to Jacques Brel that was to come out in the fall on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of death. "Side album, things are progressing well since 14 models are recorded (...) A first single should come out this summer," she added on Facebook.

In 2000, she had released a more serious album, after the disappearance of her father, called You of the world, with one of his most beautiful titles, The Man who missed me the most. After a duet with Lara Fabian, You're my other, in 2003, she released a collective album with friends, When the human dance. She begins a breathtaking tour in France and Belgium.

She had given one last concert Sunday night and was preparing a tribute album for the forty years of the death of Jacques Brel.

Renowned Maurane will also be missed for his outspokenness and his angry shots.