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Julien Clerc
Julien Clerc, a singer who made his name in 1968 with the hippie musical Hair,
has gone on to enjoy a successful career in French chanson, with numerous hits
to his credit. Born Paul-Alain Leclerc in Paris on October 4, 1947, to a senior
civil servant father and a Guadeloupean mother, he took classical piano lessons
and abandoned his law and English studies to devote himself to song. He appeared
on the airwaves in the middle of May-1968 with a song that accidentally
resonated, entitled "La Cavalerie". His image as a singer with long, curly hair
faded over the years, with albums a...
