Alain Bashung, French singer-songwriter and actor (died 2009)

Alain Bashung

French singer (1947–2009)

Alain Bashung was a French singer, songwriter and actor. Credited with reviving the French chanson in "a time of French musical turmoil", he is often regarded as the most important French rock musician after Serge Gainsbourg. He rose to prominence in the early 1980s with hit…