JEAN-LOUIS MURAT. French author, composer and performer, Jean-Louis Murat died at the age of 71. The causes and circumstances of his death have not been made official.
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- French author, composer, performer and actor, Jean-Louis Murat is deadthis Thursday, May 25, 2023. The announcement was communicated by his manager to France Inter at midday.
- The singer was aged 71 years old.
- For now, the causes and circumstances of his disappearance are not official. According Releasehe died of a pulmonary embolism.
- Jean-Louis Murat, flayed singer and poet was known for songs like Regret in duet with Mylène Farmer, If I should miss youOr At Mount Sans Souci.
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17:29 – Jean-Louis Murat, a certain vision of concerts
Jean-Louis Murat will have performed on stage until the end of his life: his last show dates back to last Friday, a few days before his death. For his fans, Murat’s concerts were always a special moment. However, the latter had a very particular vision of it, as he confided to The Obs in 2014. “I never thought that I went on stage to please people. I prefer to destabilize them, to make them think, to excite them or even to disgust them. But certainly not to caress them in the direction of the hair, it is a kind of demagoguery that I never liked”. And to pull a colleague in passing: “Souchon, it’s a demagogic song.”
17:14 – What did Jean-Louis Murat die of?
If the causes and circumstances of the death of Jean-Louis Murat have not, for the time being, been made official, certain media put forward several reasons for this sudden death. According Releasethe singer would have been carried away by a pulmonary embolism.
16:58 – Jean-Louis Murat did not want glory
It was far from the spotlight, in his beloved Auvergne, that Jean-Louis Murat preferred to take refuge, castigating a star system Parisian who did not interest him. “I would obviously not say that I sought failure, but to be dubbed by a people who swear only by Johnny or Patrick Bruel would have bothered me a lot”, he confided to the Unbreakable in 2019.
16:45 – Jean-Louis Murat was also a sports enthusiast
Known for his music and his outspokenness, Jean-Louis Murat was also a fan of sport. And particularly cycling and football, as recalled The Team. “Since a kid, my life has been punctuated by sporting events,” he told the sports newspaper. Without forgetting, of course, to give his opinion on various personalities in the field. “If we were world champions, it’s thanks to Deschamps. I worship him. He embodies traditional values. You always need a Sardou fan in the France team and he played this role”, he underlined for example in 2009.
16:31 – The touching words of Axel Bauer for Jean-Louis Murat
Tributes to Jean-Louis Murat continue to flow on social networks. On Twitter, in the caption of a photo of the deceased artist, the singer Axel Bauer writes: “A news upsets the ordinary course of things, a mustang is leaving. RIP Jean Louis Murat. Your genius suited me like a fire.”
A news upsets the ordinary course of things, a mustang leaves. RIP Jean Louis Murat. Your genius suited me like fire. ???? pic.twitter.com/lpMmzJQijZ
—Axel Bauer (@AxelBauerMusic) May 25, 2023
4:18 p.m. – “Regrets”, a duet by Mylène Farmer and Jean-Louis Murat
Among the greatest songs of Jean-Louis Murat, there is, of course, the title Regrets, sung in duet with Mylène Farmer and released in 1991. A piece which will earn him a big spotlight and a place of choice in the landscape French music.
16:04 – For Mura, PNL is “a vast and fatal joke”
Among the artists have been victims of the vitriolic statements of Jean-Louis Murat, the duo of rappers PNL. For the artist, the Ademo brothers and NOS are “to American rap what Richard Anthony was to Bob Dylan, in other words, a vast and fatal joke.”
15:50 – The children of Jean-Louis Murat
Particularly discreet about his private life, Jean-Louis Murat leaves behind several children: dad from the age of 19, he also had two children from his union with a woman named Laure: Justine and Gaspard.
15:41 – Jean-Louis Murat the Auvergne
Jean-Louis Murat was born in Chamalières, in Puy-de-Dôme. Attached to his region, he is also attached to Clermont-Ferrand, its capital. The mayor of the city was also one of the first to salute the memory of the artist after the announcement of his disappearance. “Jean Louis Murat is gone. Sad news. The beauty of the text, the frankness of the word, the sincerity of the song. A part of Auvergne leaves with him. Affectionate thoughts to his loved ones”, writes Olivier Bianchi on Twitter.
Jean Louis Murat is gone. Sad news. The beauty of the text, the frankness of the word, the sincerity of the song. A part of Auvergne leaves with him.
Affectionate thoughts to his loved ones. pic.twitter.com/Fj3ckatcLO
— Olivier Bianchi (@olivierbianchi1) May 25, 2023
15:23 – When Jean-Louis Murat aroused controversy after remarks about Angèle
Among her vitriolic portraits of artists, which often amused commentators, there is one which had moderately made the feminist movements (and beyond) laugh. Jean-Louis Murat explained on Angèle: “We, the guys, she overlooks us with a crazy nerve, she tells us ‘You don’t look, you don’t touch’ while doing peep-show choreographies”, he let go , attracting the wrath of Twitter for these remarks deemed sexist.
15:11 – Jean-Louis Murat is dead, French song in mourning
As his former label Pias points out, “the extremely brutal and sudden disappearance leaves a huge void in the French musical landscape”. Jean-Louis Murat died at the age of 71, without any information filtering, for the moment, on the circumstances of his death.
14:57 – “Dozens of unpublished” by Jean-Louis Murat
To hear Jean-Louis Murat the next twenty years? It could be possible! As explained by Didier Varrod, musical director of the antennas of Radio France on France Inter after the announcement of the death of the singer, this one had told the Inrocks to have left behind him “dozens of unpublished”, which could therefore come out in the next few years, posthumously.
2:40 p.m. – “Big idiots like Renaud or Polnareff”
Known for his harsh criticism of society or journalists, Jean-Louis Murat has made a few splashes with remarks made about other artists. In the radius of stray bullets received, we will mention two heavyweights of French song: Renaud and Polnareff. “It’s the crisis, the rooms take less risk and prefer to program big idiots like Renaud or Polnareff”, he launched on TF1 in 2016.
14:29 – Jean-Louis Murat, rebel and revolutionary
If Jean-Louis Murat was well known for regularly snubbing artists and journalists, he was perhaps less so for his revolutionary side. Also, he had decided to follow the Yellow Vests movement and write a song a week, for six weeks. “I come from a background of workers, artisans, peasants, so I’m typically Yellow Vests. For me, they’re like the redskins, they came to fight but anyway they have it in the baba. The most beautiful fights are those lost in advance. Modernity puts people aside, I can see how the people of my family live, “he explained on RFI.
14:17 – Jean-Louis Murat was on stage less than a week before his death
If the announcement of Jean-Louis Murat’s death took everyone by surprise, it was because he was still on stage during his last tour. Until Friday May 19, in Tulle, for his last concert.
Jean-Louis Murat is dead. ????
One of the artists I’ve seen the most in concert. This last Friday again, in Tulle.
He was in a good mood, joking willingly. A very nice moment. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/gHQ2BswZ35— Allan BARTE ✏️????????️ (@AllanBARTE) May 25, 2023
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French author, composer, performer and actor, Jean-Louis Murat died on Thursday May 25, 2023, his manager announced to France Inter at midday. The singer was 71 years old. For now, the causes and circumstances of his disappearance are not known. Known for songs like Regret in duet with Mylène Farmer, If I should miss you, At Mount Sans Souci, Roman crowd Or I frequented your beautyhe had released a last album in 2020 and was to perform on stage on this occasion, before the covid caused his tour to be canceled.
Jean-Louis Bergheaud, better known as Jean-Louis Murat, was born on January 28, 1952 in Chamalières, in Puy-de-Dôme. Son of a carpenter-joiner, amateur musician and a seamstress, he was passionate about music at a very young age, learned the saxophone and, as a young adult, did odd jobs. He founded his first group, Clara, with which he performed as the opening act for William Sheller. Murat released his first record in 1981. During his forty-year career, Jean-Louis Murat released 24 albums and enjoyed many years of success. A last best-of album was to be released this Friday, May 26.
Known for his songs, Jean-Louis Murat has also been talked about a lot for his regular rants. “I like it enough that people don’t love me,” he said, for example, in 2011 at the Point, a sort of summary of his bloodshed. And to remember: “I never managed to get used to this environment. At the beginning, I had an apartment in Paris, sometimes I mixed up a little, but it was a disaster. I remember once where I ate with the boss of a record company and his big star. I didn’t make it past the entrance. I told them: ‘I have nothing to do with you, fuck you, at the goodbye, I’m out.'”
Jean-Louis Murat will also have offered the most beautiful tackles in French music. Patrick Bruel, Renaud, Jean Jacques Goldman, Michel Polnareff, Les Enfoirés… Few have escaped his stray bullets. “It’s the crisis, the rooms take less risk and prefer to program big idiots like Renaud or Polnareff”, he dropped for example on TF1“PNL is to American rap what Richard Anthony was to Bob Dylan. In other words, a vast and disastrous joke” on BFM TVor even the sexist tirade in Paris Match: “I’ve rubbed shoulders with a lot of singers who have infused science. But Beyoncé or Rihanna have never written a title. If they didn’t have guys behind them, they wouldn’t would not be there. Angèle will soon take on the air of a pre-granny and it will be over.”
Throughout his life, Jean-Louis Murat will have been very discreet about his private life. Living in the countryside, in Auvergne, far from the cameras, he only released a few details about his love stories and his life away from the stage. At Paris Match, he explained that for him love was a “pledge of personal fulfillment.” He adds, about his love past: “Me, as the son of a divorced person, myself multi-divorced, I have only one idea: the couple and fidelity. And each time I have built something thing, everything broke. It’s the fourth time, there… But I reassure you, I’m already very much in love. I found my ‘princess of the cool’, I’m not to be pitied. Life is become a vast field where one should not have too many ideals.”
Jean-Louis Murat has sometimes implied that he had children. He affirms it in 2021 at the microphone of RFI, explaining why he released albums so regularly: “I have to eat, I have children. The question is simple. I’m still ric-rac and I work for keep the family at arm’s length.” Jean-Louis Murat leaves behind several children, including Justine and Gaspard, born of his union with a woman named Laure. He had a first son at 19, born from his first marriage.