Don't forget Rose ("La Liste," etc.)! I second (third?) the votes for Camille and Pauline Croze. I also like Emily Loizeau and some of the French singers listed here:
French Songs
― CupcakesInLuv, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Can't believe no-one's mentioned Julie Delpy yet. Her self-titled album is gorgeous, not least the song she sings at the key moment in Before Sunset.
― anagram, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
STEREO TOTAL!!!
― Nate Carson, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 20:59 (fourteen years ago) link
La Grande Sophie
― Enfonce bien tes ongles et tes doigts délicats dans la jungle de (Michael White), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 21:30 (fourteen years ago) link
My fave psychedelic folk album released this year was Emily Loizeau's Pays Sauvage... If she sang in English and lived in a tree in Humboldt the freak-folkies would be all over it.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 29 December 2009 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link
There were some great albums by French female singers on the charts this year, like Camelia Jordana and Coeur de Pirate.
French Female Singers
― Moosh89, Sunday, 17 October 2010 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Christelle Delaney
― youn, Sunday, 17 October 2010 21:50 (thirteen years ago) link
tell me baout '50s guitar pickers like Marie-Josée Neuville and Nicole Louvier and why they are so elusive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejxlEeCXF_8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPAgAz8SfGQ
Marie's voice is startlingly similar to that of '60s popstar Stella Zelcer (later of the avant-prog group Magma), another figure who challenged the sexist nature of French pop music at the time. none of 'em have husky, seductive voices, but whateva.
― administratieve blunder (unregistered), Sunday, 27 March 2011 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
some FFV's I've been liking lately:
― y'allternative medicine (unregistered), Monday, 2 May 2011 15:32 (twelve years ago) link
she's best know for her children's songs but was writing heavy pro-life and rape-themed lyrics by the '70s.
er, "pro-choice" is what I meant to write, but I r dumb.
― y'allternative medicine (unregistered), Monday, 2 May 2011 15:56 (twelve years ago) link
*-Mama Béa Tékielski
search her 1976 album La folle if you are a fan of Catherine-Ribeiro-style freakouts (and if you're not then wtf is wrong with you)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFlN8zaLpLU
― every time you touch me (I get hives) (unregistered), Wednesday, 4 May 2011 05:51 (twelve years ago) link
Juliette (Noureddine)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_qEYXnOiN0
― every time you touch me (I get hives) (unregistered), Saturday, 7 May 2011 05:57 (twelve years ago) link
Catherine Le Forestier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPGA4hBD0BY
― every time you touch me (I get hives) (unregistered), Saturday, 7 May 2011 06:02 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qF3IsdP6poU
huh. kind of a bonkers release from someone who usually records polite (musically, anyways) Edith Piaf chanson stuff. I think there's a Beth Ditto/Gossip dis in here somewhere (Il faut soigner son lookça c'est indispensable/ Je suis ronde et alors, je trouve ça formidable!/ Bouscouler les clichés tendance irrévérence/ Maintenant que Gossip a fait jurisprudence!) but I don't speak the language.
― every time you touch me (I get hives) (unregistered), Thursday, 12 May 2011 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
damn.
this is good.
http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0001/822/MI0001822119.jpg
the collab with her husband of the time, andy williams, is just wonderful.
― mark e, Thursday, 12 September 2013 17:47 (ten years ago) link
Salomé Leclerc is nice and so is Liza Manili.
― JacobSanders, Thursday, 27 February 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
Now you have a great generation of female vocalists
GaranceAgnès BihlCamilleClémence SavelliLise MartinAffaire CapucineMelissmell
― Bruno, Monday, 21 August 2017 21:21 (six years ago) link
La Féline's Vie future is a lovely slice of gently melancholy space pop.
― pomenitul, Monday, 21 October 2019 12:10 (four years ago) link
The hivemind would like it, I think.
― pomenitul, Monday, 21 October 2019 12:11 (four years ago) link
I like this, it's very spacious and gentle indeed.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 11:02 (four years ago) link
From a genre that hasn't been mentioned yet : I love Fanny J's first album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZhsTkeLmig
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8DCAYcnW6w
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 11:17 (four years ago) link
Love this from a couple of years back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMbMJE0D4Dk
― nashwan, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 11:35 (four years ago) link
Surprised no-one has brought up Clara Luciani on here. Seems right up ILM's alley. Mainstream "sophisticated" indie pop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85m-Qgo9_nE
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 09:07 (four years ago) link
Pas mal.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 09:59 (four years ago) link
Reminds me of a mid-career Françoise Hardy
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 10:26 (four years ago) link
oh yeah, that was on my year-end playlist for whichever year (2018 I want to say?) it came out
― like, I’m eating an elephant head (katherine), Wednesday, 29 January 2020 02:02 (four years ago) link
Not so much French as Québécois but Klô Pelgag's Notre-Dame-des-Douleurs is a wonderful little LP of mildly eccentric baroque pop with a few stylistic curveballs here and there. Also worth checking out if you're… a Jean Leloup fan.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 11 July 2020 17:32 (three years ago) link