After Spanish I this afternoon, one of my colleague’s computer’s had some great French tunes floating around the office. It got me to day-dreaming about my favorite Francophone (French-speaking but not necessarily from la belle France for those of us who haven’t taken a French class in a while) crooners …
… like moody and controversial (French) Serge Gainsbourg …
… I love his lyrics full of plays on words and double entendres …
… or the dramatic (Belgian) Jacques Brel ..
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… or the young and poetic (French, son of an Argentine mother and Russian-Moroccan father) Raphael …
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… look at these yeux bleus … !
… or (Rwandan, but lives in Québec, now) Corneille …
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… whose family escaped from Rwanda in the 1990s during the war there.
These are just a couple of my favorites. Herewith, some links to my favorite tubes (songs) of each chanteur.
Great list!! Say, where’s Dalida, Edith and Tino?! T. (Serge is always, always on my “running” iPod playlist. I love him.)
merci! for some reason, i was being sexist and was only including chanteurs. you’ve inspired me to do a chanteuse version this thursday 🙂 and well, tino, i just shouldn’t have left him out!
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