Favorite French recording artists?

[ahem]

For me, Hubert Félix Thiéfaine


Any other French music fans?

[HEyHEY]

1. Louise Attaque

[ahem]

3. I've never heard them,

but I'm going to try to find some to listen to.

[HEyHEY]

4. Great stuff

[gardenista]

2. Vanessa Paradis (Johnnie Depp's baby-momma)

Air

[Dirk39]

5. Serge Gainsbourg

and even more so his bass-player during the seventies.

I would like to mention Jacques Brel, too, but I'm not sure, if he counts as a french recording artist?

Hello from Germany,
Dirk

[ahem]

6. I haven't listened any to Serge Gainsbourg in ages.

I know I have an old record of his around here somewhere.

:hi:

[Mike Daniels]

36. Brel is Belgian

But any store that carries his stuff usually assigns him to the France section in the international racks.

[Robeson]

7. Ludovic Navarre, aka, St. Germain.....

...beautiful electronica/jazz.

[Seabiscuit]

8. Francoise Hardy

[Seabiscuit]

9. Georges Brassens

[Seabiscuit]

10. Jean-Louis Murat

[Seabiscuit]

11. Barbara

[MrScorpio]

12. A few on my list

Akufen feat. Maisonneuve
Air
Serge Gainsbourg
St. Germain
Les Rhythmes Digitales
Stereo De Luxe
Stéphane Pompougnac
Rinôçerôse
Cosmos Sound Club
Rouge Rouge
Bertrand Burgalat

and Grace Jones

[ahem]

14. Well, I love Grace, but I don't know that I'd call her a French recording

artist... hmm.

[MrScorpio]

15. She did a couple

La Vie En Rose and Libertango

That's French enough for me

[mark414]

21. good list

though i am only familiar with air, serge gainsbourg and st. germain...and daft punk of course

[Kipepeo]

13. Jordy!

Remember that little french baby who sang "It's tough to be a baby" ("Dur Dur d'être Bébé!")??? And the crazy music video with his parents changing clothes that would have never been allowed here in the US?

[MrScorpio]

16. How can I forget Daft Punk?

Gotta love those weirdos

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

22. Also like Daft Punk n/t

[Liberal In Texas]

17. Claudine...

OK, the murder thing was bad, but what the hell...

[Angry Girl]

18. Polnareff n/t

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

19. Edith Piaf

[bobthedrummer]

35. I concur.

Absolutely haunting voice.

[chaska]

20. Pierre Moerlen's Gong

[Kazak]

23. Stereolab

No contest.

[giant_robot]

24. I didn't know Air was French..

...I also like Autour de Lucie. They're from Quebec. Does that count?

[evlbstrd]

25. The Singing Nun

:+

[SkipNewarkDE]

26. Techno/Electronica group called Rinocerose

Very interesting stuff. Electronic genre, but very organic with their use of real guitars and percussion.

[Kazak]

33. I LOVE their first album...

Excellent stuff.

[SkipNewarkDE]

34. I got turned onto them a few years back...

when they toured as part of Moby's Area concert series, Area One, I believe. They came on before Paul Oakenfold, and I was like, WOW. these guys are interesting.

[skypilot]

27. Samia Farah.

Very sexy, no?

[curse10]

28. Sergent Garcia

oui!

[sundog]

29. St. Germain, Air

right now... I may have a different answer next month :D

[Kickin_Donkey]

30. Celine Dion ...

just kidding.

You should check out Les Nubians and their first album, "Princesses Nubiennes." They are an Afro-French duo who are the French equivalent (in my opinion) of Sade.

[Terran]

31. Jean-Michel Jarre

The only one I can say I'm familiar with!

[kwassa]

32. Paris is also the center of the African pop scene, the Francophone

countries, and while I don't listen to much French music, I do listen to a lot of African and French Caribbean music, like Zouk, much of which is recorded in Paris.

[MrScorpio]

37. Two of my favorite CD series

Hôtel Costes and Saint-Germain-Des-Prés-Café

I have all the volumes

They always rock the house

[MrScorpio]

38. I'm listening to MC Solaar right now

Un Ange en Danger!