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Frédéric François
For the Paralympic skier, see Frédéric François (alpine skier).
Musical artist
Frédéric François (born Francesco Barracato; 3 June in Lercara Friddi, Sicily, Italy), is a French-speaking singer-composer living in Belgium.
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Biography
Origins and childhood
Born on 3 June 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.
He emigrated to Belgium in the coal basin of Liège, where he signed a three-year contract as a miner.[Note 1] In , 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 Mio for the fi
