Jean-Louis Murat

Jean-Louis Murat

Jean-Louis Bergheaud (28 January 1952 – 25 May 2023), better known by the stage name Jean-Louis Murat, was a French musician. He spent much of his childhood with his grandparents in Murat-le-Quaire from which he got his pseudonym. Jean-Louis Bergheaud was born in Chamalières, France to a father who was a carpenter and a non-professional musician. Further to his parents' divorce, he spent his whole youth in the isolated farm of his grandparents in Murat-le-Quaire, a village overviewing the thermal city of La Bourboule. From his earliest days, solitary and introverted, Jean-Louis Murat showed he was gifted in music and with many instruments, which will lead him to the local wind section at the age of 7 with his father, then to the conservatory brass class where he will improve his talent for singing too. At the same time at 15, his English teacher let him discover soul and jazz music and he met several blues artists such as John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker or Memphis Slim. Thanks to his English teacher, he continued studying against his father's advice. Keen on poetry as well as romantic and upheaval literature amongst others, Oscar Wilde, André Gide, D. H. Lawrence and Vladimir Nabokov, he was the first member of his family to pass the Baccalauréat. Married at the age of 17, he joined the University of Clermont-Ferrand for a short period of time; he had a son and divorced when he was 19 and left in order to travel, living by doing odd jobs in France and around Europe all by himself, in the style of Jack Kerouac. He held a couple of positions between Paris and several French tourist spots; he was ski instructor in Avoriaz and a beach attendant in Saint-Tropez, and he finally went back to his village in 1977 at the age of 23 and devoted himself to music. With some Clermontois' friends from Clermont-Ferrand, he created a rock band called "Clara" with him as lead singer and songwriter. He also played saxophone and guitar in the band. William Sheller noticed them and invited them to do a couple of his opening acts and then employed them as musicians for a while. The band split and thanks to William Sheller, Jean-Louis Berghaud at the age of 27, in 1981 (under the name of Murat) he recorded a 45 rpm record including 3 songs, called Suicidez-vous, Le Peuple est mort with Pathé Marconi EMI, with Jean-Baptiste Mondino's photo as cover of the sleeve; critiques were positive but the sales did not take off. The French radio station Europe 1 censored the song since a girl was said to commit suicide because of it. A mini eponymous album followed in 1982 including six songs, under the name of Murat and an album in 1984 called Passions Pivées garnered very low sales (2,000 copies), and after a tour with Charlélie Couture, his record label withdrew the contract. At the time he was around thirty. ... Source: Article "Jean-Louis Murat" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Titel: Jean-Louis Murat
  • Populariteit: 0.59
  • Bekend om: Sound
  • Verjaardag: 1952-01-28
  • Geboorteplaats: Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France
  • Startpagina: https://www.jlmurat.com/
  • Ook gekend als: Michel Murat, Jean-Louis Bergheaud
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Jean-Louis Murat Films

  • 1990
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    La Vengeance d'une femme

    La Vengeance d'une femme

    5 1990 HD

    Suzy, een mooie vrouw, komt terug naar Parijs om de begrafenis van haar geliefde, een getrouwde man, bij te wonen. Cecile, zijn vrouw, houdt Suzy...

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  • 2004
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    Parfum d'acacia au jardin

    Parfum d'acacia au jardin

    1 2004 HD

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  • 2001
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    Mylène Farmer : Music Videos

    Mylène Farmer : Music Videos

    8.7 2001 HD

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  • 2010
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    Pauline et François

    Pauline et François

    4.4 2010 HD

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  • 1994
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    J'ai pas sommeil

    J'ai pas sommeil

    6.2 1994 HD

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  • 1987
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    Le monde est à vous

    Le monde est à vous

    1 1987 HD

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  • 1982
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    Champs-Elysées

    Champs-Elysées

    6.2 1982 HD

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  • 1998
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    Vivement dimanche

    Vivement dimanche

    3.2 1998 HD

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  • 1990
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    Stars 90

    Stars 90

    6.2 1990 HD

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