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Michel Delpech

Folk music

French chanson

French chanson réaliste

Michel Delpech (1946-2016), a popular singer with a long list of hits, experienced fame, a decline in popularity and an astonishing comeback, all the while remaining the same man. Between the yéyé wave and the chanson d'auteur, he created a repertoire imbued with nostalgia and social chronicles, which won him the affection of a wide public as early as the 1960s with the songs "Chez Laurette" and "Wight Is Wight". His fame grew in the following decade, when he established himself as one of the great stars of French variety, with a series of hits with very different themes, such as...