Jacques Debronckart was born in Chartrettes on January 13, 1934. After growing up in Lisieux and studying history and music, he began his musical career in his youth when he met Jacky Scala, who inspired him to write his first songs. Together, they composed and performed for the first time, and Debronckart developed a taste for the stage. His talent as a pianist encouraged him to become a musician, and brought him into contact with Georges Brassens, Boby Lapointe and Barbara. Debronckart's own compositions really took off in 1965, with the release of his first single Adelaïde on the Philips label. The eponymous song, with its guitar-vocals, was a big hit with the public. While performing in numerous cabarets in Paris, Jacques Debronckart did not forget his songwriting, and presented his first album in 1967, Jacques Debronckart, recorded for BAM. Despite the public's curiosity, it was the song "Mutins De 1917" (Mutineers of 1917 ) that attracted the most attention, its subject matter causing a stir in French society. It was 1969 in particular that propelled the singer to fame, with his song "J'Suis Heureux", a satirical portrait of consumer society that won the Grand Prix de l'Académie du Disque Français that same year, and appeared on a second album(J'Suis Heureux, 1969). Definitively launched on the music scene, Debronckart did not falter, releasing an album in 1974 and touring a number of countries (France, Belgium, Holland...). The same year, the artist revealed another of his passions, for café-theatre, and signed the musical Les Aventures De Tom Jones. Stricken by an illness, Jacques Debronckart wished to pursue his musical career, and in 1982 presented a final album for Disques Meys(Jacques Debronckart). The singer died prematurely the following year, on March 25, 1983 in Paris, where he is buried in the Batignolles cemetery.
