The singer with the heart of a wolf...

Nostra Dam
Dec 28, 2020
4 min read

Updated: Nov 20, 2024

Not much information about Philippe Lafontaine other than the fact that he is a Belgian singer-songwriter.

Singer who will remain mainly in the musical history of the 80s for the high-caliber Single "Cœur de loup" released in 1989.

As such alone, he deserved this article.

To discover or rediscover...

Discography (among others ...) :

70s Decade :

Ca ne va pas monsieur 1978
Tout le monde à ça 1978
Où-est elle ? 1978

80s Decade :

Je ne crie pas, je ne pleure pas 1981
Dis le moi 1981
Ouh 1981
Tamizez Londres 1985
Fa ma no ni ma 1985
Paramour 1987
Coeur de loup 1989

90s Decade :

Macédomienne 1990
Alexis m’attend 1990
L’amant tequila 1992
Parlez-moi d’elle encore 1993
L’hymne à la boule 1994
Venez venez zuela 1994
Si 1995
Dieu que la route est longue 1995

2000s Decade :

Le bon manche 2000
Ayayay 2000
Enchanté, nous, on fait des nuages 2000
Croire les oiseaux 2000
Mon ange 2003
Le corps des filles 2003
L'offensé 2003

2010s Decade :

Ca plane pour moi 2019

Tracks :

1978...a first title to get your legs going and especially to start getting people talking about you. At least that's what he's hoping for at this stage...

1978...a first opus of obvious quality but which will not allow the young Philippe to take off more than that...

1978...afterwards you have to start one day as they say. So he'll have to work a little more to hope to compete one day with the best...

1980... some very gentle tracks that already highlight a more than obvious potential. Now it remains to be seen what this young singer will offer next...

1981... a predisposition for the Intimist which is confirmed title after title. Nothing exceptional for the moment but a good job, quite simply ...

1981... the tempo accelerates slowly but surely. Here he delivers a light and airy title that smells of the Caribbean and especially the hot sand ...

1985 ... even if the qualitative level is certain, he still cannot manage to release THE title which could set him apart from the crowd. We will therefore have to be a little more patient ...

1985 ... and yet there really isn't much missing. Everything is there, the style that goes well, just like the sound. It just remains to find the little extra that will make all the difference ...

1987 ... the Intimist fits him like a glove, it is clear once again. And yet, paradoxically, it is not in this area that he will win the cup ...

1989 ... then THIS title comes ! Finally, the title of the consecration. All thanks to this perfectly calibrated Dance title which will give him its direct ticket to posterity. MAS-TER-FUL !

1990...he will try the Eurovision Song Contest and finish in an honorable 12th place. He will have at least tried as they say...

1990 ... the 1980s saw him hatch and then explode. What does the 90s have in store for him, good question. Either way, he starts it off in the best possible way with this sumptuous track that literally floats in the air !

1992 ... unfortunately, the fall will be severe. He will not have been able to adapt to new trends and his style, even if he remains sympathetic, is no longer able to compete on equal terms with the competition now ...

1993 ... the adventure continues anyway. Rightly or wrongly, that's something else. The future will tell if it was worth believing again ...

1994 ... unfortunately, the miracle will not take place. The decade advances without the singer being able to hang up the cars. From now on, it is a solitary race that awaits him ...

1994 ... he does not demerit, far from it. But in a decade where the rhythms border on the speed of light, his soft rhythms can only marginalize him irremediably ...

1995 ... a nice track full of finesse which simply feels good. Afterwards, do not expect a miracle on the Charts side with such special titles ...

1995 ... a great adventure which comes to an end with this title. In the end, a busy career with the production of a very high-caliber track which at least allowed him to leave a significant mark in the musical history of the end of the 20th century. What ask for more !

1998...which is coming to an end at least at the top level because that will not prevent him from continuing to produce other titles afterwards...

1998...he absolutely does not intend to stop there in any case and it is certainly not the basic fans who will complain, quite the contrary...

1998...it is clear that the best years are now behind him but he still has material in the boxes and he intends to exploit it to the maximum...

2000...here he is even launching into children's musicals, who would have believed it ? A daring bet but far from being devoid of interest, that's for sure...

2000...a musical comedy that will not remain the best known of all but which will still have had the merit of producing titles of obvious interest...

2000...a musical adventure specially dedicated to his little girl, a nice gift as they say ! Gift for her but also gift for the fans...

2000...he will have proven at the same time that he is capable of venturing into unknown territory and that he can be good even in this very particular field...

2003...he will therefore attempt to move on to the 2000s but he will not achieve any more success during this decade than during the previous one...

2003...after that it doesn't matter whether there is success or not concerning him because as long as he takes pleasure in what he does, why throw in the towel prematurely...