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Frédéric François
For the Paralympic skier, see Frédéric François (alpine skier).
Musical artist
Frédéric François (born Francesco Barracato; 3 June 1950 in Lercara Friddi, Sicily, Italy), is a French-speaking singer-composer living in Belgium.
Biography
Origins and childhood
Born on 3 June 1950 in Lercara Friddi in Sicily, in a very modest Italian family, he is the second child of Antonina (Nina) Salemi and Giuseppe (Peppino) Barracato.
His mother was a seamstress in Lercara and his father was initially a miner in a sulphur mine in Lercara.
French pop sensation Frédéric François made breezy, fluffy adult contemporary from the '70s to the '90s, and the best of that material arrives on Frédéric.
He emigrated to Belgium in the coal basin of Liège, where he signed a three-year contract as a miner.[Note 1] In 1951, Nina and her two sons joined Giuseppe in Tilleur[Note 2] in a Red Cross Convoy.
Francesco Barracato grew up in a family of eight children. Peppino used to sing Neapolitan songs and opera arias for pleasure and accompanied himself on the guitar. Young Francesco was only 10 when he sang O Sole