En scène avec Jacques Brel (In the Spotlight with Jacques Brel)

Duolingo French Podcast

Duolingo

Society & Culture, Education

4.5 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Arnaud Askoy has already had three different careers when, at age 43, he discovers his true calling: singing. But not his own music. Arnaud plans to launch a career impersonating Jacques Brel, one of the world’s most famous francophone musicians, and might just be crazy enough to pull it off.

Check out recordings of Arnaud’s live performances here (arnaudaskoy.org/video). We also made a Spotify playlist (spoti.fi/36MhU19) where you can kick back and listen to some of Jacques Brel’s greatest hits.

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0:00.0	In 2014, Arnault Bascourt was the father of two living in Paris with his family.
0:07.6	At 43, he'd already had three careers.
0:10.6	He'd been a cop, a private detective, and for the last three years, he'd worked as an
0:16.1	independent construction worker, Anarchie-Zan.
0:20.3	But he was getting tired of it.
0:23.3	It's a difficult job.
0:25.9	We're tired of it.
0:28.5	It's also a solitary job.
0:32.1	Often, we're far from his family.
0:35.9	I wanted to stop doing this job, but I didn't know what to do.
0:41.7	Arnault got a job renovating a cabin in the woods.
0:45.3	He was working on his own cut off from the rest of the world.
0:49.1	Desperate for some entertainment, he dashed to the tiny village nearby and bought a random CD,
0:54.7	OCD.
0:55.9	It was a best-out from one of the most popular francophone singer-songwriters of all time.
1:02.7	A Belgian man who had died in 1978.
1:05.7	Jacques Bret.
1:07.7	I don't know why I chose this CD.
1:10.7	Since I was 15, everyone says I look like a goat.
1:16.7	I'm a teacher, but my colleagues are maybe because I chose this CD.
1:22.7	Back at the cabin, Arnault played the songs of his double-ganger, and he started humming along.
1:29.7	As he listened to Jacques Bret's rich, grainy voice singing, Arnault started singing along,
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