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An enthralling, passionate and uncompromising performer and writer, Patti has been likened to Jacques Brel, Bjork, Edith Piaf and Nick Cave. Eccentric, brooding satirical songs. Greatly influenced by European cinema, and the satirical underworld of Berlin performance art. Patti will holler, whisper and woo the audience taking them into a dark seductive world of art, sex and death. Arousing chemistry seethes beneath gas masked theatrics, welcome to the world of Dada Noir.

Jacques Brel (1929–1978) was a French-speaking Belgian singer and author-composer. Known in the English-speaking world mainly through translations of his songs, he is also remembered in French-speaking countries as an actor and director. Brel was born on 8th April 1929 in Schaarbeek, a district of Brussels, and lived half of his life in Paris. He died of lung cancer on 9th October 1978 in Bobigny in the suburbs of Paris, and is buried in the Marquesas Islands.

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Les Ogres de Barback is a french band of 4 brothers and sisters, each one can play several instruments.
They are influenced by french writers like Georges Brassens, Pierre Perret, Renaud, the 80's french alternative scene like Mano Negra, and the music of eastern europe.

Paolo Conte (born 6 January 1937 in Asti, Piedmont, Italy) is a craggy-voiced italian singer, pianist and composer. He both writes and performs his own material and his grainy, resonant voice redolent of Francophone singers like Jacques Brel adds a certain charm to his wistful, sometimes melancholic lyrics. His performing career began as a vibraphone player in local and touring bands. He began songwriting with his brother Giorgio Conte early on and eventually began writing songs of his own.