J.J. Lionel (Belgian singer & bassist Jean-Jacques Blairon)

Jean-Jacques Blairon (9 August 1947 – 14 July 2020) was a Belgian musician active in the 1980s under the name J. J. Lionel. He is best known for La Danse des canards, released in 1981. This version became the best-selling French-language song in France in the 1980s. It appeared in the 1983 Guinness Book of Records with 2,500,000 copies sold. Thirty years after the song's release, this amount had risen to 3.5 million. Triste nouvelle: J.J. Lionel, l’interprète de la «Danse des canards», est décédé (in French) "J.J. Lionel – artiste – sa discographie sur B&M". Bide-et-musique.com. Retrieved 28 December 2011. "Inusable " Danse des canards "". leparisien.fr (in French). 1 August 2012. "La Danse des canards a 30 ans". rtbf.be (in French). 20 May 2011. Profile, dailymotion.com; accessed 15 July 2020. J. J. Lionel discography at Discogs v t e