Sylvie Vartan is a Bulgarian-French singer and actress. She is known as one of the most productive and tough-sounding yé-yé artists. Her performances often featured elaborate show-dance choreography, and she made many appearances on French and Italian TV.
Chantal de Guerre, known as Chantal Goya, is a French singer and actress.
Gaston Ghrenassia , known by his stage name Enrico Macias, is a French singer, songwriter and musician of Algerian Jewish descent.
David Hallyday is a French singer, songwriter, actor and amateur sports car racer.
Raymond Berthiaume was a Canadian jazz singer, musician, producer and composer from Quebec, Canada.
Frédéric François, is a French-speaking singer-composer living in Belgium.
Maurice Biraud was a French film actor. He appeared in 90 films between 1951 and 1982. Biraud was born on 3 March 1922 in Paris. He married actress Françoise Soulié in 1956. He suffered a heart attack at a red light while driving his car on Avenue Marceau in Paris and was taken to the Ambroise-Paré-Hospital in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, where he was certified dead on 24 December 1982.
Twiste et Chante is the second studio album by French pop singer Sylvie Vartan. The music was conducted by Eddie Vartan for the Eddie Vartan et Son Orchestre.
Alain Barrière was a French singer, who was active from the 1950s until his death and was known for participating in the Eurovision Song Contest 1963.
Olivier Adam is a French author and screenwriter. His debut novel Je vais bien, ne t’en fais pas was adapted into the eponym film. He also writes books for young adults, among them La messe anniversaire. Adam won the 2004 Prix Goncourt de la Nouvelle for Passer l'hiver.
Richard Anthony, born Ricardo Anthony Btesh, was a French pop singer, born in Egypt, who had his greatest success in the 1960s and 1970s.
Les Surfs were a Yé-yé-style pop group from Madagascar, that existed from 1963 until 1971.
Salut les copains is a series of albums released through Universal Music France to commemorate the best of music featured in French scene as sponsored by the "Salut les copains" radio program in France and the French Salut les copains magazine. The tracks include French original singles, French-language covers of known hits as well as European and American hits popular in France. The track list is a representative wide selection of the "Yé-yé" generation of French music.
Jean-Jacques Debout is a French singer-songwriter. In addition to his albums, he has written for a number of renowned artists like Johnny Hallyday, Sylvie Vartan, Dalida, and Chantal Goya. He has also composed a great number of films.
Nancy Holloway was an American jazz, pop and soul singer and actress who was popular during the 1960s in France, where she continued to perform and live.
Georges Poubennec, better known under the name Georges Aber, was a French singer-songwriter.
"La plus belle pour aller danser" is a song by Sylvie Vartan from the 1964 French feature film Cherchez l'idole.
"Comme un garçon" is a song by Sylvie Vartan from her 1967 album Comme un garçon. It was also released on an EP and as a single.
"Tous mes copains" is a song by Sylvie Vartan from her 1962 album Sylvie. It was also released on an EP and as a single that year.
"Gee Baby" is a song originally released by the duo Joe & Ann. It was co-written by Joe Joseph and Alvin Tyler, arranged and produced by Tyler, and recorded in New Orleans, possibly with Mac Rebennack on keyboards. Released as a single in 1959, it peaked at no. 14 on U.S. Billboard's R'n'B chart, called Hot R&B Sides at the time.
