Patrick Francfort, drummer for The Gibson Brothers, died Saturday morning, according to information from the Martinique La Première channel. The musician was carried away by the Covid-19.
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With his brothers Chris, Kool and Alex, Patrick Francfort had set up a first group called Martinique Express in 1975 and is starting to make a name for himself by participating in Guy Lux shows, reports Martinique La Première. But it was while climbing The Gibson Brothers that their career took off in 1976. Their producer Daniel Vangarde, who looked at the birthplace of Ringo and Sheila or La Compagnie Créole, noticed their potential. They immediately knew success with the title Come to America which immerses France in the disco movement.
A few years later, the siblings from Lamentin Acajou, in Martinique, swept across Europe with Cuba, a hit that would rank at the top of the charts in several countries and even rose to 9th place in the United States. The title will earn them 14 gold records. In 1979, they sold 5 million copies of Qué sera mi vida before crossing the desert.
Without stopping their tours, the brothers produced in 1985 Laroche Valmont who made a hit with his single T'as le look coco . But it was with Emilie, a new album by the Gibson Brothers that they became group of the year in the United Kingdom in 1987.