1. In 1979, Maurane took part in the show Brel en mille temps, with Philippe Lafontaine, where she was discovered by the French songwriter Pierre Barouh.
15 Facts About Maurane
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Maurane later got a string of small contracts, singing in the street or in cafes and to be a backing singer, notably for Viktor Lazlo, Jo Lemaire or Philippe Lafontaine.
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Maurane sang in the second version of the rock opera Starmania, which toured for six months with Renaud Hantson, Sabrina Lory, Wenta, Martine St Clair, Peter Lorne and the brothers Norman and Richard Groulx.
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Maurane was replaced by Rejane Perry for the rest of the tour.
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In July 1989, Maurane was awarded both the Radio France Internationale's female Octave, and the Festival d'ete de Quebec award.
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Maurane performed a few festival dates, such as the Printemps de Bourges in April and the Francofolies in July 1993.
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In 1994, Maurane received the Francophone Artist of the Year award at the Victoires de la musique, beating Celine Dion and Stephan Eicher.
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Maurane had previously been nominated for the Female Artist of the Year award at the 1992 Victoires, but lost to Jane Birkin.
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In November 1995, Maurane released Differente, her fourth studio album, with Philippe Lafontaine and Jean-Claude Vannier still by her side.
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At the dawn of the new century, Maurane began writing a new album.
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In January 2007, Maurane released Si aujourd'hui, which did not meet with the success of her previous works.
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In September 2014, the song "Trop Forte" was released, written by Pierre-Yves Lebert and Daran about the mental difficulties of being overweight, a theme that Maurane had never dared to address until then.
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Less than twenty-four hours after her last public appearance, Maurane was found dead in Schaerbeek.
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On 7 May 2018, Maurane was found dead beside her bath at her home in Schaerbeek in the area of Brussels, Belgium.
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Maurane's funeral was held on 17 May 2018 in the church of Notre-Dame-des-Graces in Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, a municipality in the Brussels region, and was followed by her burial in the cemetery of Auderghem, another municipality in the Belgian capital region where Maurane lived as a child.