French Female Vocalists

Juliette (Noureddine)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_qEYXnOiN0

Catherine Le Forestier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPGA4hBD0BY

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.

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.

Salomé Leclerc is nice and so is Liza Manili.

Now you have a great generation of female vocalists

Garance
Agnès Bihl
Camille
Clémence Savelli
Lise Martin
Affaire Capucine
Melissmell

La Féline's Vie future is a lovely slice of gently melancholy space pop.

The hivemind would like it, I think.

I like this, it's very spacious and gentle indeed.

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

Love this from a couple of years back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMbMJE0D4Dk

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

Pas mal.

Reminds me of a mid-career Françoise Hardy

oh yeah, that was on my year-end playlist for whichever year (2018 I want to say?) it came out

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.