Claudine Luypaerts, better known as Maurane (12 November 1960 – 7 May 2018), was a Francophone Belgian singer and actress. Claudine Luypaerts was born on 12 November 1960 in Ixelles, Brussels, to Guy-Philippe Luypaerts, a composer and director of Académie de Musique of Verviers, and Jeannie Patureaux, a piano teacher. When she was a teenager she took part in several musical contests. In 1979, she participated in the show, Brel en mille temps, with Philippe Lafontaine, she was discovered there by the French songwriter, Pierre Barouh. She later got small contracts singing backing vocals in cafés for Jo Lemaire and Philippe Lafontaine until she released her first album in 1986. In 2012, she became a member of the Jury in Nouvelle Star broadcast on television station D8. She and singer Pablo Villafranca had a daughter. On 7 May 2018 Maurane was found dead at the age of 57 beside her bath at her home in Schaerbeek in the area of Brussels, Belgium. The following day, the magistrate of the Brussels public prosecutor's office confirms the opening of a judicial inquiry, although the death of the singer is not considered as suspect. The first conclusions point to a probable heart attack. Source: Article "Maurane" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.