Léo Ferré was a French-born Monégasque poet and composer, and a dynamic and controversial live performer, whose career in France dominated the years after the Second World War until his death. He released some forty albums over this period, composing the music and the majority of the lyrics. He released many hit singles, particularly between 1960 and the mid-seventies. Some of his songs have become classics of the French chanson repertoire, including "Avec le temps", "C'est extra", "Jolie Môme" and "Paris canaille".
Clément Janequin was a French composer of the Renaissance. He was one of the most famous composers of popular chansons of the entire Renaissance, and along with Claudin de Sermisy, was hugely influential in the development of the Parisian chanson, especially the programmatic type. The wide spread of his fame was made possible by the concurrent development of music printing.
Victoires de la Musique is an annual French award ceremony where the Victoire accolade is delivered by the French Ministry of Culture to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry. The classical and jazz versions are the Victoires de la musique classique and Victoires du Jazz.
Patrick Fiori is a French singer of Armenian descent.
Rick Allison is a Belgian-born Canadian singer, author and record producer.
Gérard Lenorman is a French singer-songwriter.
Pierre-Eugène Veber was a French playwright and writer.
Claudine Luypaerts, better known as Maurane, was a Francophone Belgian singer and actress.
Sagesse is a volume of French poetry by Paul Verlaine. First published in 1881, it was important in the symbolist and modernist movements. The subject matter of these poems deals with themes relating to maturing.
Nuno Resende is a Portuguese singer.
En toute intimité is the title of both the CD and DVD from Lara Fabian's 2003 acoustic concerts at the Olympia in Paris. Both the CD and DVD were recorded during the concerts on February 2 & 3 2003.
Yves Simon (born 3 May 1944 in Choiseul, Haute-Marne) is a French singer and writer. Simon has published over 30 books and released about twenty albums.
Jacques Spiesser is a French actor.
Colette Renard, born Colette Lucie Raget, was a French actress and singer. Renard is closely associated with the titular character from the musical Irma La Douce, a role she played for over a decade.
Julien Bertheau was a French actor.
Madeleine Chapsal is a French author and the daughter of Robert Chapsal, son of the politician Fernand Chapsal, and of Marcelle Chaumont, who made dresses for Madeleine Vionnet. She married the French journalist and politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber in 1947 with whom she participated to the creation the news magazine L'Express. She was a member of the Prix Femina jury between 1981 and 2006.
Sophie Delmas is a French actress and singer.
Alice Donadel, stagename Alice Dona is a French singer and songwriter. Born to an Italian father from Veneto and a French mother, both musicians.
Yann Benoist is a French session guitarist, performer, singer, composer, conductor, and arranger.
"Je suis malade" is a 1973 song by Alice Dona and Serge Lama. First performed by Lama with no success, Dalida recorded the song the same year receiving widespread success.
