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Jean-Louis Bergheaud - better known by the stage name Jean-Louis Murat - is a brooding singer-songwriter born in Chamalières, France on January 28, 1952. He spent the bulk of his childhood in rural isolation on his grandparents' farm in Murat-le-Quaire, the village he went on to take his pseudonym from. He began learning music at the age of seven, occasionally joining his father's band on cornet and tenor saxophone. A natural loner, he consumed the writing of André Gide and D.H. Lawrence and eventually became exposed to American jazz, R&B, and soul. At 17, Jean-Louis Murat was ma...