If France is known as a hotbed of culture, then the chanson is the flower of culture, the symbol of French romantic style. In this issue, you will listen to some of the most representative chansons, and when these French chansons are prelude, you will involuntarily sway your body.
NO.1
Édith Piaf
Edith Piaf
Édith Piaf, known as the voice of France. She is good at chansons and folk songs, telling the loss and sadness of love, and her bumpy and ill-fated life has injected autobiographical color into her music and derived many legends.
The French affectionately called Piaf "the little girl," and the 2007 Oscar-winning film La Vie en Rose, named after her song of the same name. The film reflects her tragic and legendary life. To this day, she is still remembered and revered as one of the greatest Singers of All Time in France.
NO.2
Yves Montand
Yves Montdown
Yves Montand, described by Marilyn Monroe as the most exciting person in the world; by the French writer Pierre Saka as the man that unmarried girls most want to marry, and young boys most want to be. With his outstanding musical talent and charming screen image, he has become a French superstar who is both film, television and music.
The New York Times commented that his music, derived from the musical traditions of Piaf and the Tavern, with an engaging sense of simplicity, as well as an alluring charm with irony, special romanticism and strong emotion, he created his own personality and a personal brand that resisted fashion trends.
NO.3
Charles Trenet
Charles Treyner
Charles Trenet (born 1913) is the French national singer. In the 1920s and 1930s, it has become a representative of Chanson, on a par with Edith Piaf. He wrote many popular songs in his lifetime, participated in film performances, and was a versatile artist.
Most of Treena's songs are brightly paced, and the lyrics are full of warm feelings and bring a soothing effect. Many of his songs have been covered in English, such as his masterpiece "La mer", the English version of which is "Beyond the sea". It is said that this song was composed by him on the train inspired by the scenery outside the car window and the rhythmic rhythm of the train, and the movie "Finding Nemo" adopted this song as the main theme of the movie.
NO.4
Patricia Kaas
Patricia Kath
Patricia Kaas was one of France's most popular female artists in the 1990s. The French Chanson School, represented by her, is a musical genre that is talked about by cultural people all over the world, and the most successful part of Keith is that she tries to integrate pop, blues, jazz and other musical elements in the traditional French chanson, forming a unique musical style, and becoming the only person in the French music scene who can compete with Celine Dion.
NO.5
Juliette Greco
Juliet Greco
Juliette Greco, the symbol of the French chanson, with a career spanning seventy years, was the musical embodiment of the existentialist movement after World War II, a cultural symbol of existentialism.
Jean-Paul Sartre describes her as: There are a million poems in Greco's voice, like warm lights, rejuvenating the embers burning in all of us. Thanks to her, the songs I wrote, in her mouth, became gems.
NO.6
Jacques Brel
Jacques Roman Georges Breyer
Jacques Brel, born in Belgium in 1929 and famous in France, is a chanson master, composer, actor, and director. Although Breyer has developed in many ways, he has achieved great success in every field. There was an 11-year hiatus in his career, but miraculously, when he returned to the stage, he was still an unshakable soul musician in people's hearts.
NO.7
Celine Dion
Celine Dion
Celine Dion, who entered the French music scene in 1980, released her first solo French single, Ce n'était qu'un rêve (it was just a dream), a song written by Celine's mother in 1981. In 1983, Celine became the first Canadian artist to win a gold medal in France with the single "D'amour ou d'amitié".
Celine's musical style is wide-ranging, and she is influenced by a variety of styles such as pop, rock, and gospel music. In terms of French songs, she is also a well-known representative of the Chanson school. Critics have described her voice as like an iron fist hidden in a goose-down glove (rigid and soft), and her strength is hidden in a silky vibrato, revealing her great achievements in singing.
NO.8
Charles Aznavour
Char Aznaver
Charles Aznavour, a French Armenian singer, lyricist, actor and diplomat, is also a representative figure of French chansons, and has recorded more than 1,200 used songs in his more than 70 years of singer career, this "Emmenez-Moi", is his most popular work.
French President Emmanuel Macron once praised him as the representative face of France and said: For millions of people, Aznaver is a balsam, a therapy, a comfort ... For decades, he made our lives even sweeter.
NO.9
Joe Dassin
Joe Dassin
Joe Dassin was born in New York to the son of Anglo-American film director Jules Dashin and the mother of violinist Bea Trislauer. The name Joe Dassin may be unfamiliar, but for European listeners in the '70s, the name was absolutely thunderous throughout the seventies.
Although an authentic American, Dassin is a French star singing Saluts in French, and in 1967, Darsin hosted the first MIDEM festival, and public exposure made Dassin a celebrity and propelled his song "Les Dalton" to the pinnacle of French. Since then, his famous songs have continued to emerge one after another.
NO.10
Serge Gainsbourg & Jane Birkin
Serge Gansbour and Jane Platinum
Serge Gainsbourg is a French singer, composer, pianist, poet, painter, screenwriter, writer, actor and director, and one of the most important figures in French pop music. His works are full of provocation and rebellion, and the style is changeable, embodying jazz, chansons, rock, disco and many other styles.
And as his partner, Jane Birkin, originally became famous in britain in the 60s. In 1968, although she did not speak French, she became the heroine of the movie "Slogan" with her good looks, and met her future husband, Serge, and collaborated on the song.
NO.11
Carla Bruni
Carla Bruni
Carla Bruni was born in Turin, Italy, in 1967 to a pianist mother and a classical guitarist (stepfather a composer). "Quelqu'un m'a dit" is Bruni's most highly sung song, composed by herself, which not only won her the best female artist award at the French Music Awards, but also became the standard in the world café. Bruni can effortlessly switch between French, Spanish and English.
Speaking of his own style, Bruni once said: "I am trying to find an emotional state that is detached from reality, related to love, romanticism, free thought and travel. I want people to feel lovely when they listen to it and feel like they're on vacation.