Les Musclés were a
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music band in the 1990s. The Musclés were
Framboisier (singer),
Rémy
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(bass guitarist),
Éric
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(guitarist),
René
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(accordionist) and
Bernard Minet
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He started his career in Pas-de-Calais in 1969 and arrived in Paris in 1970, where he was part of several bands during his studies: ...
(drummer).
Les Musclés started as
Dorothée
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's orchestra in the ''Club Dorothée'' TV show, but also had a career as an independent band. A few of their singles were hits in
France
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, such as ''La fête au village'' ("The village party") (2nd in the 1989 charts), ''Moi j'aime les filles'' ("I like girls") (12th in the 1989 charts), ''Merguez party'' (25th in the 1990 charts) and the ''Musclada'' (8th in the 1992 charts). They won five golden records during their career.
The band disbanded in 1997, when ''Club Dorothée'' stopped airing.
During the
2007 French presidential election
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, they came back with a single and a clip "Nicolas et Ségolène", a parody about
Nicolas Sarkozy
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and
Ségolène Royal
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.
Rene Morizur died on 26 August 2009.
Claude Chamboisier alias "Framboisier" died on 4 January 2015.
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