Jean-Pierre François (born 7 June 1965) is a French singer and former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

. He remained particularly known for his 1989 summer hit " Je te survivrai", a love song written by

Didier Barbelivien Didier René Henri Barbelivien (; born 10 March 1954 in Paris) is a French author, lyricist, songwriter and singer. Beginning in the 1970s, he wrote a number of successful songs for artists such as: Dalida, Johnny Hallyday, Michel Sardou, Danie ...

, which reached number 2 on the French Singles Chart.

Career

François began his football career with CS Blénod et Pont-à-Mousson. He played for

Dijon Dijon (, ; ; in Burgundian language (Oïl), Burgundian: ''Digion'') is a city in and the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Côte-d'Or Departments of France, department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Regions of France, region in eas ...

from 1983 to 1986. Following a short spell with

FC Basel Fussball Club Basel 1893, widely known as FC Basel, FCB, or just Basel, is a Swiss professional Association football, football club based in Basel, in the Basel-Stadt, Canton of Basel-Stadt. Formed in 1893, the club has been List of Swiss footba ...

in Switzerland he returned to France to play for

AS Saint-Étienne Association Sportive de Saint-Étienne Loire (), abbreviated as A.S.S.E. () and commonly known as Saint-Étienne, is a French professional football club based in Saint-Étienne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. The club was founded in 1933 and competes ...

in the 1987–88 season. In 1989, François began a singing career with his smash hit " Je te survivrai", then with "Il a neigé sur lacs" and "Des Nuits",Jean-Pierre François discography and peak positions in Franc
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(Retrieved 3 October 2008) released in early 1990. The same year, he also released his first and sole album entitled ''Des Nuits'', which contains a duet with Debbie Davis, but it was not successful. He decided to leave the show-biz, and became owner of a

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in Saint-Cyprien. In 2004, his daughter Sandy, participated in the French TV reality show '' Star Academy 4''.

Discography

Albums

* 1990: ''Des Nuits'' # "Des Nuits" # "L'amour sans rien dire" # "Pont-à-Mousson" # "Peut-être toi, peut-être un autre" # "La Gamine" # "Il a neigé sur les lacs" # "Dandy" # "Tout ce qu'elle désire" # " Je te survivrai"

Singles

* 1989: " Je te survivrai" – #2 in France * 1989: "Il a neigé sur les lacs" – #6 in France * 1990: "Des Nuits" – #38 in France * 1990: "La Gamine" * 1991: "1ère main" * 1992: "Y'a des heures" by Jean-Pierre François and Debbie Davis

References

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