French Language Music

I have just started my voyage into rediscovering the French language. So, I’m not quite ready to dive into listening to music. I need to get a bit more confidence in basic vocabulary first, but I wanted to go ahead and place some things here that I had turned up while searching. Yes, I was already searching for French music even though I suspect my understanding of it would be pretty close to zero. I guess I wanted to go ahead and test the waters a bit to see what choices were out there and maybe to start getting a feel for the sound of French when it’s sung.

As I said on the Spanish language page:

One thing that’s fairly important is having access to the lyrics to make sense of what you’re hearing. I would encourage you to read along occasionally and add any words you don’t know to your deck of study words (with definitions.) Online lyric sites can be dangerous in a sense… many illegitimate sites have drive by downloads, popup ads and who knows what else… I HIGHLY recommend legit lyric sites such as MetroLyrics.com or Yahoo’s Music Lyrics section. They both have paid for the right to have access to the REAL lyrics of songs. So, there are two advantages to using their sites 1) you can actually see what the REAL lyrics are, not what somebody has guessed the lyrics are. 2) they are more reputable sites and you have a lower chance of spyware/malware infections from visiting them. I haven’t checked these sites to see if they have good coverage of French Language songs, hopefully they will.

The first name that came up is Alizmée (Wikipedia link).

Here is a list of French singers from the Wikipedia that might help you as you search for music in French to listen to:
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* Benat Achiary
* Isabelle Adjani
* Thierry Amiel
* Amélie-les-crayons
* Isabelle Antena
* Blanche d’Antigny
* Arletty
* Rosy Armen
* Michèle Arnaud
* Arno Elias
* Isabelle Aubret
* Charles Aznavour
* Seda Aznavour

* Jeanne Balibar
* Monique Serf
* Emma Bardac
* Brigitte Bardot
* Claude Barzotti
* Bénabar
* Amel Bent
* Jano Bergeron
* Benjamin Biolay
* Gérard Blanc
* Frida Boccara
* Bernie Bonvoisin
* Mathieu Boogaerts
* Bourvil
* Jacqueline Boyer
* Loalwa Braz
* Françoiz Breut
* Patrick Bruel

* Camille (singer)
* Amélie-Julie Candeille
* Carlos (singer)
* Céline Carzo
* Philippe Cataldo
* Alain Chamfort
* Jérémy Chatelain
* Jeanne Cherhal
* Christophe Dumaux
* Philippe Clay
* Coralie Clément
* Louis Compain
* Joachim Thibault de Courville
* Anaïs Croze
* Pauline Croze

* Marie-Louise Damien
* Dantès Dailiang
* Lise Darly
* Joe Dassin
* Anne-Marie David
* Suzy Delair
* Lucienne Delyle
* Jean-Étienne Despréaux
* Dominique A
* Anne Ducros
* Marie-France Dufour

* Eble II of Ventadorn

* Fabienne Shine
* Ugo Farell
* Faudel
* François Feldman
* Fania Fénelon
* Nilda Fernández
* Louise Féron
* Séverine Ferrer
* Ysa Ferrer
* Romuald Figuier
* Gilles Floro
* Francky Vincent

* Suzanne Gabriello
* Jean-Jacques Goldman
* Chantal Goya
* Yvette Guilbert

* Ishtar (singer)

* Gerard Jaffrès
* Philippe Jaroussky
* Jean-Marc Leclercq
* Michel Jonasz
* Anna Judic

* Patricia Kaas
* Kareen Antonn
* Anna Karina
* Philippe Katerine
* Claire Keim
* Rina Ketty

* Lââm
* Boby Lapointe
* Larusso
* Pierre Laujon
* Amanda Lear
* Edith Lefel
* Joseph Legros
* Gérard Lenorman
* Herbert Léonard
* Claudine Longet
* Lorie
* Elsa Lunghini

* Christophe Maé
* Mathias Malzieu
* Claudi Martí
* Martinique (singer)
* Jeanne Mas
* Mireille Mathieu
* Anne Meson
* Miossec
* Emmanuel Moire
* Marcel Mouloudji
* Jean-Louis Murat

* Nayah
* Magali Noël
* Juliette Noureddine

* Pascal Parisot
* Emmanuelle Parrenin
* Paul Personne
* Julie Pietri
* Pol Plançon
* Benoît Poher
* M. Pokora
* Alice Prin

* Marie-Anne-Catherine Quinault

* Cheikha Rimitti
* Ronnie Bird

* Dédé Saint Prix
* Sapho (singer)
* Damien Sargue
* Levon Sayan
* Renaud Séchan
* William Sheller
* Shy’m
* Yves Simon (singer)
* Nicola Sirkis
* Mano Solo
* Benjamin Sotto

* Jacqueline Taïeb
* Tété
* Tyssem

* Magalie Vaé
* Jacques Vaillant
* Sylvie Vartan

* Wallen

* Yvette Giraud

* Zouzou