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Deux Filles
12+ albums
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about
The short, mysterious career of the aptly named female French duo, Deux Filles, is bookended by tragedy. Gemini Forque and Claudine Coule met as teenagers at a holiday pilgrimage to Lourdes, during which Coule's mother died of an incurable lung disease, Forque's mother was killed and her father was paralyzed in a grisly auto accident. The two teens bonded over their shared grief and worked through their bereavement with music. However, after recording two critically acclaimed albums and playing throughout Europe and North America, Forque and Coule disappeared without a trace in North Africa in 1984 during a trip to visit Algiers, where Forque had lived from birth to the age of five. Theories from abduction and murder to a planned disappearance to spontaneous human combustion have been floated, but in the ensuing years, not a trace of the duo has turned up except for a mysterious letter purportedly written by Coule claiming that the pair journeyed to India on a spiritual quest, only to meet with further hardships. Indeed, the short and terribly unhappy lives of Forque and Coule are at the root of the small but fervent cult following the mysterious duo have gained since their disappearance, not least because the placid, largely instrumental music on the duo's albums betrays no hint of the sorrow that framed their personal lives. This would be a terribly sad story if a word of it were true; in reality, Deux Filles were Simon Fisher Turner, a former child star/teen idol and futu
top songs
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The Letter - Remastered
42,7862Drinking at a Stream - Remastered
31,2963Los Estrellas - Remastered
30,0914L'intrigue - Remastered
27,4975The City Sleeps - Remastered
20,6736Oakwood Green - Remastered
17,5497Piroette - Remastered
17,1058Our English Friends - Remastered
13,7649Sur la plage - Remastered
9,30510The Draw in Room - Remastered
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