Category: French Music

Olivier Jauffrit, a French radio presenter, chooses a Charles Trenet song as the ‘perfect for sunny days French tune’ saying “The one you definitely want ...

French Radio presenter Olivier, says of Lucienne Boyer’s performance of  ‘Parlez-moi d’Amour’ “… it is one of the best French love songs ever made. More ...

  Cora Vaucaire was born Genevieve Collin on 22 July 1918 in Marseille and enjoyed a successful singing career in France particularly in the 1950s. ...

Olivier Jauffrit, French radio presenter,  chooses a singer, group or musical excerpt that represents French music: the French girl band “Les Parisiennes. “Nobody remembers them ...

  Jeanne Moreau is best known as an actress but is also a singer, screenwriter and director. Born in Paris 23 January 1928 to an ...

  Born David Arugete 3rd April, 1921 to Jewish parents in Turkey, Dario Moreno as he became, was an actor, composer and singer who had ...

Born Jean Tenenbaum in Hauts-de-Seine 26 December 1930, Jean Ferrat (as he became) did not have an easy upbringing. His father, a Russian died at ...

Françoise Hardy was born in Paris 17 January 1944. She began her career at 18 in 1962 and became one of the most successful singers ...

“The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.” So ...

Born 7 February 1927 in Montpelier, South of France, Juliette Gréco has had the sort of life that you think only exists in books and ...