― Vornado, Monday, 7 November 2005 14:49 (eighteen years ago) link
nonetheless - francoiz breut thirded.
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 7 November 2005 14:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― (jg) ((jg)), Monday, 7 November 2005 14:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― SoHoLa (SoHoLa), Monday, 7 November 2005 15:02 (eighteen years ago) link
http://members.tripod.com/ye_ye_girls/reviews/swing_01.html
― mcd (mcd), Monday, 7 November 2005 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link
now switching off pendantry mode...
― m bott, Monday, 7 November 2005 20:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Arnault (arc73hk), Monday, 7 November 2005 23:06 (eighteen years ago) link
Ten Very Husky French Girl-albums:
- The Isis Project - The Isis Project (husky girl: Sophie Hunter, songs written by Guy Chambers & Keren Ann)- Francoiz Breut - Une Saison Volée- Daphné - L'Emeraud- Ariane Moffatt - Le Coeur dans la tête- Austine - La Tendresse EP- Benjamin Biolay & Chiara Mastroianni - Home- Holden - Pedrolira- Charline Rose - Charline Rose- Coralie Clement - Bye Bye Beauté- Clarika - Joker
some song of these filles are posted on my blog: fillessourires.blogspot.com
― Guuz H (Guuz H), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 12:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― karen Little, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 14:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 14:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― GzZz (Gzz), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 21:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx, born again in Xixax (baaderonixx), Thursday, 16 February 2006 08:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Thursday, 16 February 2006 09:15 (eighteen years ago) link
Also I highly recommend Autour de Lucie, although Valerie's voice isn't husky. She is supposed to be releasing her first solo album this year.
― Mitya (mitya), Sunday, 19 February 2006 00:58 (eighteen years ago) link
fabienne delsol should be a star but she isn't.
― keyth (keyth), Sunday, 19 February 2006 01:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― zeus (zeus), Sunday, 19 February 2006 11:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― retrogurl, Sunday, 19 February 2006 11:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Monday, 20 February 2006 02:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 20 February 2006 07:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Daan Heuvel, Friday, 21 April 2006 13:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― hank (hank s), Friday, 21 April 2006 17:36 (eighteen years ago) link
http://i29.tinypic.com/2yoeo74.gif
― gzip, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 22:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Some of these were mentioned, and I second (or third) them!
Keren Ann (I was not expecting this, but I liked Dean and Britta's live show more than Keren Ann's.) Carla Bruni, Yael Naim, (French-Israeli) April March, (american) France Gall, Francoise Hardy, Kahimi Karie (Japanese), Charlotte Gainsbourg, Brigitte Bardot, Sylvie Vartan (bulgarian), Jacqueline Taïeb (tunisian),
A bunch more ye-ye girls from the sixties: http://www.teppaz-and-co.fr/chanteuses.html
Female vocalists involved with the band Nouvelle Vague: Anaïs Croze, Camille Dalmais, (Camille) Phoebe Killdeer, Mélanie Pain Marina Céleste
― rollerbeef, Thursday, 31 July 2008 01:18 (sixteen years ago) link
not Charlotte Gainsbourg
― blunt, Thursday, 31 July 2008 01:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Lemon incest?
― rollerbeef, Thursday, 31 July 2008 01:44 (sixteen years ago) link
tru dat, but I heard the solo album last week and her voice is so thin and unremarkable (lyrics included). Plus the music was lamentable Air-fare. ha
― blunt, Thursday, 31 July 2008 04:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Check out Alexandra Roos
― baaderonixx, Thursday, 31 July 2008 07:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Brigitte Fontaine!
― poortheatre, Thursday, 31 July 2008 08:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Jacqueline Taieb is my favorite yeye girl. I have a song of her in my favorite songs muxtape:
http://moteldemoka.muxtape.com
Check her out. The horn section on that song is amazing.
― Moka, Thursday, 31 July 2008 08:26 (sixteen years ago) link
many good ones already. dani was also pretty good (60s model/singer/actress). gainsbourg wrote "comme un boomerang" for her. his demo version is great (not too fond of the retake she did with daho). and in some of her 60s scopitones dani was amazingly gorgeous (she also played in Truffaut"s "la nuit americaine"). claudine longet, francoise hardy and elli medeiros are also great favourites of mine.
― AleXTC, Thursday, 31 July 2008 11:27 (sixteen years ago) link
Yelle! Probably best described as France's Robyn. Check out her fantastic single "Je veux te voir".
― HannahSolo, Thursday, 31 July 2008 11:52 (sixteen years ago) link
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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (thirteen 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 (eleven 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 (seven 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 (four years ago) link