- Daughter Janelle, born January 21, 1999.
- Daughter Gloria, born June 24, 2003.
- Daughter Billie, born April 15, 2005.
- Her native language is Flemish, but she sings in French.
- 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. Her stage name was not only a reference to the color of her haircut. It was also a nod to the character of the singer, namely 'fiery' and 'fighting'.
- She is the daughter of Roland Demal, a solicitor in Hasselt and a councilor for the Flemish Liberals and Democrats (VLD) in the City Counci.
- She is a Belgian singer-songwriter.
- Axelle Red graduated from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) as a lawyer in 1993.
- She has lived in Paris and currently lives in a village near Brussels.
- 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, Eddie Floyd, Percy Sledge and Ann Peebles.
- She was awarded as Commandeur in the Belgian Order of the Crown in 2007.
- She also sang the official anthem, "La Cour des Grands", with Youssou N'Dour at the opening ceremony of the 1998 FIFA World Cup in the Stade de France outside Paris, before a television audience of over a billion people.
- In 1999, Axelle received the most important music award in France for female artist of the year, the Victoire de la Musique, while her third studio album, Toujours Moi, was also released, written and produced by herself. It sold more than 800,000 albums.
- In 2013, an Axelle Red Fashion Victim exhibition was presented at the Modemuseum in her hometown, Hasselt.
- As ambassador for Handicap International in 2022, she visited the organization's workshop in Colombia, where efforts are being made to clear the soil of land mines, inch by inch.
- Axelle Red 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.
- In May 2008, the University of Hasselt awarded Axelle the honorary title of Doctor Honoris Causa for her social commitment as an artist and human rights' activist.
- In 1993, her first album Sans Plus Attendre was released which immediately resulted in her artistic break out in France, Switzerland, Canada and Belgium, where sales amounted to more than 200,000.
- After being forced to flee the riots in June 2004 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Axelle campaigned in July of that year in Niger with UNICEF against female circumcision and child marriages.
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