Axelle Red  Fabienne Demal (born 15 February 1968), better known by her stage name Axelle Red, is a Belgian singer-songwriter. She has released 11 albums, including "Sans plus attendre", "À Tâtons", "Toujours Moi" and "Jardin Secret"; she is best known for her 1993 "Sensualité" single which became a successful hit in France in 1994. Axelle Red was born as Fabienne Demal on 15 February 1968 in Hasselt, Flanders, Belgium, the daughter of Roland Demal, a solicitor in Hasselt and a councillor for the Flemish Liberals and Democrats (VLD) in the City Council. She has lived in Paris and currently lives in a village near Brussels. In 1983, aged 14, Fabienne Demal produced her first single, "Little Girls", using the artist name « Fabby ». In 1986, she chose the artist name Axelle Red in tribute to the singer of group Guns N'Roses called Axl Rose. She graduated from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) as a lawyer in 1993; in the same year her first album "Sans Plus Attendre" was released which immediately resulted in her artistic break out in France, Switzerland, Canada and Belgium, where sales alone amounted to more than 200,000. Her soul album, "À Tâtons", recorded in 1996 in Memphis with musicians from the Stax Records label, including Steve Cropper and Isaac Hayes, was a great success. Axelle received an International Federation of the Phonographic Industry platinum award for sales of more than 1 million; a year later she sold out the Paris Olympia for the first time. Since 1997, Axelle has been an ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) standing up for the rights of children and women in war-torn regions and developing countries. That same year she devoted herself to the Ottawa Convention against land mines and in the poverty-stricken Haiti; she came face to face with children who have been imprisoned in miserable conditions without trial. In 1998, Axelle married Filip Vanes (still her husband and manager at Music & Roses). She also sang the official hymn, "La Cour des Grands", with Youssou N'Dour at the opening ceremony of the Football World Cup in the Stade de France outside Paris, before a television audience of over a billion people. Seven months pregnant with her daughter, Janelle, in her shows devoted to soul and rhythm and blues she was joined by her heroes, Wilson Pickett, Sam Moore, Eddy Floyd, Percy Sledge and Ann Peebles.