- Birthday
- 1955-05-24
- Place of Birth
- Gosselies, Hainaut, Belgium
Philippe Lafontaine
ActingBiography
Philippe Lafontaine (born 24 May 1955) is a Belgian singer and composer. Lafontaine was born in Gosselies, Belgium. He spent a short time in a Jesuit college that he left at 17 to pursue a career in music. His first successes came from the writing and recording of jingles for television commercials, including Stella Artois and Coca-Cola. Throughout the 1980s he joined the musical comedy Brel en mille temps, touring in Dakar and Moscow, and then Leningrad and Saint Petersburg. Lafontaine released three albums. The song "Cœur de loup" was his first big hit and launched his career once and for a...
