The Grand Jojo now sings in paradise

The music hall star had come to the Grand Duchy to share his experiences of racist attacks. The heroine of the French Resistance is the first black woman to enter the Pantheon.

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Born in Ixelles in 1936, Jean Vanobbergen began his career at the end of the 1960s, after having worked as a designer. His first public performance, however, dates back to 1939 when, at the age of three, he performed I’ll wait, the Rina Ketty, dans un bistrot de Koekelberg.

The artist, who left school at the age of sixteen with the vocation of becoming a painter, held several jobs before embarking on music. First a window dresser in a household appliance store, he landed in the jazz department thanks to his knowledge in the field.

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He wrote his songs “to celebrate”. An ambition that the artist quickly accomplished thanks to the release of his first 45s in the early 70s, and his first success under the Vogue Belgique label, Don Juan. A title that will be followed by real hits like the Tango du Congo (1972), Le French cancan (1973) and Victor the footballer (1974).

In 1978, the Grand Jojo, met Lou Depryck, who would become his producer. Julius Caesar, We are thirsty, or And Viva Mexico, which tells the epic of the Red Devils in 1986, the emblematic titles follow one another and mark the Belgian song.

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On social networks, tributes to the artist have followed one another within the political class. Described as an “extraordinary artist” by Sophie Wilmès, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, or even as a “true popular icon” by Willy Borsus, vice-president of Wallonia, the disappearance of the Grand Jojo moves the whole of Belgium.

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On the same subject

Announced on Saturday, the artist’s death at the age of 80 symbolizes the end of an era during which the Grand Duchy has known many upheavals. Return on a life which will have marked popular culture.

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France Gall, who died Sunday in Paris from cancer at the age of 70, “will be remembered” in Luxembourg, said Jean-Claude Juncker in a letter to French President Emmanuel Macron, recalling that the French singer won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1965 on behalf of the Grand Duchy.

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