i love most everything french. i am a tried and true francophile and i'm unashamed of that. i love paris. i love the food. i love the art. i love the music. well, except for french opera. yeah, i know, i'm what would be considered an opera nut, but french opera is really musically boring to me. most, not all.
don't worry, i'm not doing any french opera in this post. i'm going to post my favorite french chanteuse. no, not piaf, though i do love her music and voice. my favorite is very contemporary - patricia kaas.
she is probably the most successful french singer in the world today, at least the most listened and purchased. she is from moselle on the franco-german border and speaks both french and german fluently. she has a number of songs in german included on her discography.
i discovered her on one of my trips to paris at the fnc store on le place de la bastille. i was looking for new cd's by jean-jacques goldman, my favorite french chanteur and found patricia instead. she, or rather her music, quickly became an obsession.
her voice is very distinctive. throaty. gravelly at times, very sexy most of the time. her one foray into movies was and now, ladies and gentlemen... with jeremy irons in which she played, of course, a chanteuse. it's not a very noteworthy film, but her voice is stupendous.
this is my current favorite. from her debut album entitled mademoiselle chante le bleus - the lady sings the blues. this is a rather laidback version. there's a concert version that rocks.
enjoy...
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