Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 01/16/2010
When listening to the very gentle and subtle album by Hindi Zahra (born in Morocco, living in Paris) I was thinking of other female singers of Arabian descent who sing (partly) in French. Hindi only uses a few French words (alas) and sings mostly in English or berber, but singers like Algerian Souad Massi (pictured), Moroccan Sapho and Natacha Atlas (born in Bruxelles, but with North-African roots)...
blowupdoll (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
FRANCOISE HARDY & MARC LAVOINE - CHERE AMIE she may be grey, but she's still got it! what a gorgeous way to end the week.
Filles Sourires (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Anita was so kind to send me last months edition of Gala, featuring an interview with Lulu Gainsbourg . The youngest son of Serge (now 23 years old, Bambou is his mother) who studies at Berklee College in Boston, and is working on his own musical career. He wrote a song that's on Marc Lavoine newest cd, called Quand je suis seul. It has some Sergian touches - because of the use of Fender Rhodes and...
TO411 Daily (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
TORONTO – French director Tony Gatlif’s “Korkoro” (Freedom), a film about gypsies rounded up in Nazi-occupied France, on Monday earned top honors at the Montreal World Film Festival. The Holocaust drama, which portrays the second World War through Europe’s Roma population, earned Gatlif the juried Grand Prix des Americas prize and the top audience award in [...]
Visualgui.com (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
After the demo of “Bonjour Viet Nam” leaked on the web, Pham Quynh Anh’s fame was skyrocketed. Fans around the world adore her, but in return the girl is acting like some big time diva with just one mega hit. What has she accomplished after “Bonjour Viet Nam'” Let’s see. Her duet with Marc Lavoine [...]
Chao-Vietnam (Free subscription) | 11/04/2008
Vietnamese-Belgian singer Pham Quynh Anh performs her hit Bonjour Vietnam (Hello Vietnam) with French singer Marc Lavoine An overseas Vietnamese singer knows that sometimes the words of a song can express your feelings perfectly. “Someday, I will go there, someday to say hello to your soul. Someday, I will go there, to say hello to you, Vietnam.” These words from Pham Quynh Anh’s...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 02/01/2008
Film Reviews: "Perfect Match" springs few surprises but moseys pleasantly along with some fine chemistry between leads Carole Bouquet and singer Marc Lavoine.
Why Travel To France (Free subscription) | 11/15/2007
It's been a while since Florent Pagny has released anything new but his label just announced that on November 19, he is releasing the new Pagny Chante Brel, a compilation of Pagny singing Jacques Brel songs. Yay! I haven't heard it yet but I love Pagny's raspy high voice. I love him so much that [...]
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