Archive for 'Music'
Ces petits riens Posted by Jennie on Apr 28, 2010
Il pleut (it’s raining) in New York, and all I want is to curl up with un verre de vin and …Serge. Serge Gainsbourg is un auteur-compositeur-interprète et cinéaste français: a French songwriter-composer-singer and filmmaker. I’ve mentioned him before, in a post about eating breakfast in the mornings in Paris and listening to the radio…
French Music – Grégory Lemarchal Posted by Transparent Language on Nov 21, 2009
As I was checking out the French Amazon site and the top sellers in the CD category, I found it interesting that the top selling CD for the last two months is an Italian singer and the highest-ranking French singer is Grégory Lemarchal, currently at number 7 with Rêves. To tell you the truth, I…
French Music – Vanessa Paradis Posted by Transparent Language on Oct 18, 2009
Possibly most famous in the US as Johnny Depp’s long-time love and mother of his two children, Vanessa Paradis was born on December 22, 1972 in a town near Paris where she took piano and dance lessons. Now a successful singer, actress and Chanel model, she became a child star in 1987 at just 14…
French Music – Cleopâtre Posted by Transparent Language on Sep 30, 2009
One of the most popular musicals right now in France, Switzerland and Belgium is Cleopâtre: La Dernière Reine d’Egypte (Cleopatra: The Last Queen of Egypt). Having opened at the Palais des Sports in Paris in January 2009, the show has been on tour throughout these three countries since May 2009 and will be returning to…
French Music – Alizée Posted by Transparent Language on Jul 25, 2009
French pop/electro-rock singer Alizée Jacotey was born on Corsica on August 21, 1984. She started studying dance at the age of 4 and continued at a renowned dance school until she was 15. A friend signed her up for a national television singing contest. She performed the song ‘Ma Prière’ and won the talent show Graines…
French Music – Patrick Bruel Posted by Transparent Language on Jun 12, 2009
Another of my favorite French singers is Patrick Bruel and he just released a new album called Seul o presque (Alone or almost) with live acoustic versions of his songs that were recorded while he was on tour. Born Maurice Benguigui on May 14, 1959, in Tlemcen, Algeria, he was slow to find success as…
French Music – The American Woman Who Conquered Paris Posted by Transparent Language on May 11, 2009
I mentioned Carole Fredericks in a recent article on one of my very favorite French singers, Jean-Jacques Goldman, and I am inspired to tell all of you more about her for a few reasons. First of all, because she was a very popular singer throughout the French-speaking world in the 90’s as part of the…