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Musician Jean-Louis Murat is dead

He was an unconsensual figure in French rock, respected for his music, noted for his very direct outings.

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Musician Jean-Louis Murat is dead

He was an unconsensual figure in French rock, respected for his music, noted for his very direct outings. Singer and composer Jean-Louis Murat has died at the age of 71, his former record company announced on Thursday May 25.

Willingly provocative, Jean-Louis Murat, born in 1952 in Puy-de-Dôme, caused a scandal when he started with Suicide the people is dead, some media fearing that this title is an incitement to suicide. The cover was signed by the photographer of the stars Jean-Baptiste Mondino. He will experience his first commercial success at the end of the 1980s with the single If I had to miss you. It is a duet with Mylène Farmer, Regrets, which will make her career soar in 1991.

Tireless composer - he released almost one album a year until the last in 2021 -, Jean-Louis Murat had made his outspokenness his trademark, not hesitating to crush the greatest. "What I prefer in rock, it is perhaps the variety”, he confided to Figaro in 2020. Or “today, Bob Dylan or Neil Young are no longer the leaders”, as he estimated, in the face of the "vassalization" of music before the Americans.

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Nostalgic for the heyday of rock, the Auvergnat castigated the contemporary music scene, which he described as "small fry". In an interview with AFP in 2021, he confided his regret at not having embraced a career in the United States, despite an opportunity in his youth. "The American musicians I meet tell me 'you would now have a villa in Beverly Hills' and there I have a bungalow in France..."

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