The eternal adolescent Jacques Brel is born at the 8th of april 1929 in Schaarbeek (Belgium). In his youth he feels emprisonned in the boring life of a typical bourgeois Brussels family. In 1953, at the age of 24, he takes his chance. At the invitation of Canetti, a talent hunter, he flees to Paris, the center of the french "chanson". A succesful career starts when he has in 1956 the opportunity to make his first record, "Quand on n'a que l'amour". Brel becomes a legend being a super performer. His songs become real classic songs in its kind. He is even brillant in movies and in the musical "L'homme de la Mancha". Onfortunately Brel is as big a consumer of his own life. In 1967 he says goodbye to the scene. He travels with his sailing-boat around the world to install himself in 1976 on the island Hiva Oa. For ever, because 4 packs of Gitanes cigarettes a day demand their toll. He dies in 1978 of lungcancer. He is burried on the island. Some of his songs are: Ne me quitte pas, Marieke, Les Flamands, La Valse a Mille temps,...