J. J. Lionel

Jean-Jacques Blairon (9 August 1947 – 14 July 2020)^[1] was a Belgian musician active in the 1980s under the name J. J. Lionel.^[2]

Jean-Jacques Lionel
Background information
Birth name	Jean-Jacques Blairon
Born	(1947-08-09)9 August 1947 Binche, Belgium
Died	14 July 2020(2020-07-14) (aged 72) Comines-Warneton, Belgium
Genres	Alternative rock, rock and roll, gospel, Blues
Occupation	Singer
Instrument	Bass
Years active	1970–2020
Formerly of	Wallace Collection

He is best known for La Danse des canards, released in 1981. This version became the best-selling French-language song in France in the 1980s.^[3] It appeared in the 1983 Guinness Book of Records with 2,500,000 copies sold. Thirty years after the song's release, this amount had risen to 3.5 million.^[4]