Maurane

Born: 1960-11-12 Ixelles, Belgium

Died: 2018-05-07

Claudine Luypaerts, better known as Maurane (12 November 1960 – 7 May 2018), was a Francophone Belgian singer and actress. Claudine Luypaerts was born on 12 November 1960 in Ixelles, Brussels, to Guy-Philippe Luypaerts, a composer and director of Académie de Musique of Verviers, and Jeannie Patureaux, a piano teacher. When she was a teenager she took part in several musical contests. In 1979, she participated in the show, Brel en mille temps, with Philippe Lafontaine, she was discovered there by the French songwriter, Pierre Barouh. She later got small contracts singing backing vocals in cafés for Jo Lemaire and Philippe Lafontaine until s ...