Brigitte Fontaine & Areski Belkacem

Biography

Brigitte Fontaine and Areski Belkacem were a French duo and married couple who worked together from 1969 until Areski's death in 2026. Their first collaboration, 'Comme à la radio' (1969) on #Saravah#, joined Fontaine's poetic chanson to Areski's North African inflected compositions and the *Art Ensemble of Chicago*. Billed as a duo, they made 'Je ne connais pas cet homme' (1973), 'L'Incendie' (1974), 'Le Bonheur' (1975), the experimental double album 'Vous et nous' (1977) and 'Les églantines sont peut-être formidables' (1980).