In the '60s, she recorded everything from Israeli folk songs to spirituals to covers of Ellington and Jacques Brel.

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There are also neatly packaged efforts, like "Jacques Brel Returns, " the four-man show highlighting the music of the Belgian singer-songwriter, at the Triad on the Upper West Side.

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Painter Paul Gaugin and Belgium singer Jacques Brel were so impressed with their initial visit to Hiva Oa, the largest island in the archipelago, that they both lived and died there.

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