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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Filip Nikolic
Person · male · France · Saint-Ouen-sur-Seine · born 1974 · died 2009 · recording since 2009
French singer and actor of Serbian descent (1974–2009)
Also known as フィリップ・ニコリッチ
Timeline
4 events◦ Birth 1† Death 1★ Debut release 1▣ Album 1
1970s
2000s
· Debut release
Debut release: Qui prendra ta place ?
First documented Single in the MusicBrainz discography.
source: musicbrainz
2010s
Biography
English biography146 words · 2 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1354612698
Biography
Filip Nikolic (Serbian: Филип Николић, Filip Nikolić; 1 September 1974 – 16 September 2009) was a French-Serbian actor and singer, best known as the lead of the French band 2Be3.
Born at Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis, he was raised with two siblings in Longjumeau, a suburb of Paris.
Filip was a French singer, but he also featured in acting roles in a TV shows such as Navarro and Pour être libre, a series centred on 2Be3. He also appeared in the US movie Simon Sez with Dennis Rodman in 1999. He was also runner-up in the French version of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in 2006.
Death
He died on 16 September 2009, aged 35, reportedly while preparing a solo album. According to the first reports the cause of the death was a heart attack due to a combination of pills he used to get to sleep.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 13 | 67.6th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 2 | 75.7th |
| Studio albums | 1 | 76th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 4 | 75.9th |
| Recording span (years) | 0 | 9.4th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (2 release groups · 1 studio albums)
Albums · 1
2011 · studio album
Search SpotifySearch YouTube Music
Tracklist · 9 tracks · 35:26
1Quoiqu'on dise4:022Qui prendra ta place ? (Radio Edit)3:433Tim4:284L'Instant du désir3:365Quelque chose a changé4:056Je sais ce qu'il te faut2:417Tombé de haut4:208L'ange est là4:269Qui prendra ta place ? (Version Remix)4:05
Single · 1
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Qui prendra ta place ?Search SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 1 track · 3:431Qui prendra ta place ?3:43 | 20 September 2009 |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Filip Nikolic head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 13 | 67.6th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 2 | 75.7th |
| Studio albums | 1 | 76th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 4 | 75.9th |
| Recording span (years) | 0 | 9.4th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Line-up
| Name | From | To | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 Be 3(band) | — | present |
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Filip_Nikolic_C%C3%A9sars_1998.jpgaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/eee3f886-9c70-46f7-9a41-abbf3985ee32discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/eee3f886-9c70-46f7-9a41-abbf3985ee32core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q572984genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q572984seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filip_Nikolicbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filip_Nikolic
Why this artist is in the database
- List of French singers
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Georges Biard · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q572984 · MusicBrainz: eee3f886-9c70-46f7-9a41-abbf3985ee32
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