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Singer and composer Philippe Lafontaine was born on May 24, 1955 in Gosselies, Belgium. Lafontaine spent a short time in a Jesuit college that he left at 17 to pursue a career in music. His first successes came from the writing and recording of jingles for television commercials (including Stella Artois and Coca Cola. Throughout the 1980s he joined the musical comedy "Brel en mille temps", touring in Dakar, Moscow, and Leningrad, and he released three albums. The song "Coeur de Loup" was his first big hit and launched his career once and for all in Europe. The song garnered...

Combining portions of Hip-Hop, Pop, Rock and Electro into one melodic element of noise, welcome to the new innovative sound of The LaFontaines. The band, hailing from the region of Motherwell/Scotland, fuse all four genres whilst, keepin’ it real with live instruments played on stage as well as in studio. The lyrics are often socially conscious and add to the bands home-grown feel, you pick up on as the authentic Scottish lead vocal drops. Formed at the dawn of 2008, the five piece, have a clear direction on where they want to take their music and have already conjured up...