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• Patrick Abrial
• Abyale
  Abyale
  Abyale is a Franco-African dance music singer who had success in the 1990s. Her songs "I Don't Talk about Love" and "I Wanna Be Your Love Too" were hits in France. She stopped her career for a while in 1995 when she had a son, then participated in TV adverts and music of opening credits for...
  
   (born in Africa, with a singing career in France)
• Salvatore Adamo
  Salvatore Adamo
  Salvatore, Knight Adamo, simply known as Adamo is a Belgian – Italian composer and singer of ballads, mainly in French, but also in other languages such as German, Italian and Spanish. He had commercial success during the 1960s and 1970s, mostly in Europe, the Middle East and Latin America, but...
  
   (often known as Adamo)
• Isabelle Adjani
  Isabelle Adjani
  Isabelle Yasmine Adjani is a French film actress and singer. Adjani has appeared in 30 films since 1970. She holds the record for most César Awards for Best Actress with five, for Possession , One Deadly Summer , Camille Claudel , Queen Margot and Skirt Day...
  
  
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• Aketo (band : Sniper
  Sniper (group)
  Sniper is a French hip hop Band from the Val-d'Oise department. The group consists of Tunisiano , Aketo , and Blacko, formerly Black Renega .- Biography :...
  
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• Akhenaton
  Akhenaton (rapper)
  Philippe Fragione better known by his stage name Akhenaton is a French rapper and producer of French hip hop. He has also worked under the aliases Chill, AKH, Sentenza, and Spectre...
  
   (band : IAM
  IAM (band)
  IAM is a French hip hop band from Marseille, created in 1989, and composed of Akhenaton , Shurik'n , Khéops , Imhotep , and Kephren . 'IAM' has several meanings, including 'Invasion Arrivée de Mars'...
  
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• Frank Alamo
• Alizée
  Alizée
  Alizée Jacotey is a French singer, known professionally by her given name Alizée She was discovered by Mylène Farmer, following her winning performance in the talent show, Graines de Star, in 1999...
  
  
• Marcel Amont
• Anaïs
  Anaïs Croze
  Anaïs, full name Anaïs Croze, is a French singer. She was born in Grenoble, Isère, France on August 20, 1976. Her first album, called The Cheap Show, was recorded live in January 2004 and released in 2005...
  
  
• Elisabeth Anaïs
• Annabelle
  Annabelle (singer)
  Annabelle is a French singer and actress, daughter of actor Marcel Mouloudji.-Singer:She performed the title "Fuis Lawrence d'Arabia" in 1987, which peaked at #12 on the French Singles Chart...
  
  
• Eve Angeli
• Anggun
  Anggun
  Anggun Cipta Sasmi is an Indonesian singer-songwriter. She has released 12 studio albums and one soundtrack album , and her songs have also been included on various compilation albums. Her musical career began in childhood, and she achieved commercial success in Indonesia when she was 12 years old...
  
  
• Anis
  Anis Kachohi
  Anis Kachohi is a French country singer known as Anis.-Life and career:Born of a Russian mother and a Moroccan father, he grew up until age 8 in the Paris suburb of Cergy....
  
  
• Isabelle Antena
  Isabelle Antena
  Isabelle Antena is a French singer and songwriter, notable both as a founder of electro-samba pioneers Antena and also as a prolific and successful solo artist.BIOGRAPHY...
  
  
• Richard Anthony
  Richard Anthony (French singer)
  Richard Anthony is a French singer, born 13 January 1938 in Cairo, Egypt, as Ricardo Btesh.-Biography:Richard's father was an industrialist, and his mother was the daughter of an English diplomat...
  
  
• Antoine
• Kareen Antonn
  Kareen Antonn
  Kareen Antonn is a French artist of Greek and Spanish origin.In 2003, she recorded in duet with Bonnie Tyler the hit songs "Si demain... " and "Si Tout s'arrête ". She also recorded "Un Homme se blesse" to help the homeless.-Singles:* 2003 : "Si demain.....
  
  
• Arletty
  Arletty
  Arletty was a French actress, singer, and fashion model.-Life and career:Arletty was born Léonie Marie Julie Bathiat in Courbevoie , to a working-class family. Her early career was dominated by the music hall, and she later appeared in plays and cabaret. Arletty was a stage performer for ten years...
  
  
• Carol Arnauld
  Carol Arnauld
  Carole Arnauld is a French singer and songwriter. She sung in the late 1980s and can be deemed as a one-hit wonder in France with her hit single "C'est pas facile...", released in September 1986. The song reached number 10 on the SNEP chart, stayed in the top 50 for 16 weeks and was certified...
  
  
• Johan Asherton
• Assia
  Assia (singer)
  Assia is a Algerian-born singer with kabyle origins. Her albums mixed French variety, Rhythm and blues, and oriental music...
  
   (born in Algeria
  Algeria
  Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...
  
  , with a singing career in France)
• Jean-Louis Aubert
  Jean-Louis Aubert
  Jean-Louis Aubert is a French guitarist, singer and songwriter. He has also composed music for the cinema and for television, including the soundtrack for the film I've Loved You So Long, starring Kristin Scott Thomas .In 1976, he co-founded the rock band Téléphone...
  
   (band : Téléphone
  Téléphone
  Téléphone was a French rock band formed in 1976 by Jean-Louis Aubert , Louis Bertignac , Corine Marienneau and Richard Kolinka ....
  
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• Isabelle Aubret
  Isabelle Aubret
  Isabelle Aubret is a French singer.Born as Thérèse Coquerelle in Lille, France, Aubret won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1962 representing France and singing "Un premier amour" with music composed by Claude-Henri Vic and lyrics by Roland Stephane Valade...
  
  
• François Audrain
  François Audrain
  - Studio Albums :* Détachée * Chambres Lointaines - External links :* from Tôt Ou Tard, his current label *...
  
  
• Hugues Aufray
  Hugues Aufray
  Hugues Aufray is a French singer. He began his career singing in Spanish....
  
  
• Austine
• Les Avions
  Les Avions
  Les Avions was a French pop rock band formed in 1980 in Paris by Jean-Pierre Morgan , Jean Nakache and Jérôme Lambert . The keyboardist Sylvain Pauchard also greatly contributed to Les Avions'albums for the arrangements and programming...
  
  
• Jennifer Ayache (band : Superbus
  Superbus (band)
  Superbus is a five-piece French pop/rock band formed in 1999.-History:After a trip to the United States to perfect her English in 1999, Jennifer Ayache went looking for musicians to make a group. She met Michel Giovannetti, a guitarist, and François Even, a bassist, who already knew each other from...
  
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• Charles Aznavour
  Charles Aznavour
  Charles Aznavour, OC is an Armenian-French singer, songwriter, actor, public activist and diplomat. Besides being one of France's most popular and enduring singers, he is also one of the best-known singers in the world...
  
  

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• Pierre Bachelet
  Pierre Bachelet
  Pierre Bachelet was a French singer-songwriter with a gentle romantic voice.Bachelet spent part of his childhood in Calais and developed a lifelong appreciation of the North of France, which inspired his hit song "Les corons" .His other hit songs include "Elle est d'ailleurs" , "Écris-moi" ,...
  
  
• Chimène Badi
  Chimène Badi
  -Early life:Chimène Badi was born in Melun, in the Paris suburbs but she spent her entire childhood in the south-west of France, growing up in Villeneuve-sur-Lot with her parents, Chérifa and Mohammed, her sister, Déborah, and her brother, Karim...
  
  
• Josephine Baker
  Josephine Baker
  Josephine Baker was an American dancer, singer, and actress who found fame in her adopted homeland of France. She was given such nicknames as the "Bronze Venus", the "Black Pearl", and the "Créole Goddess"....
  
   (born in the USA, later became a French
  France
  The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
  
   citizen)
• Daniel Balavoine
  Daniel Balavoine
  Daniel Balavoine was a French singer and songwriter. He was hugely popular in the French-speaking world, and inspired many singers in the 1980s, such as Jean-Jacques Goldman, and Michel Berger, his closest friend...
  
  
• Jeanne Balibar
  Jeanne Balibar
  Jeanne Balibar is a French actress and singer.She was born in Paris. She began her acting career on the stage, in "Don Juan" at the Festival d'Avignon. Her first film role was in Arnaud Desplechin's 1992 film The Sentinel. She continues to perform in both spheres.Recently she starred in Ne Change...
  
  
• Barbara
• Didier Barbelivien
  Didier Barbelivien
  Didier Barbelivien is a French author, lyricist, songwriter and singer. Beginning in the 1970s, he wrote a number of successful songs for artists such as: Dalida, Johnny Hallyday, Michel Sardou, Daniel Guichard, Claude François, Gilbert Montagné, Sylvie Vartan, Patti Layne, Gilbert Bécaud, Enrico...
  
  
• Brigitte Bardot
  Brigitte Bardot
  Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot is a French former fashion model, actress, singer and animal rights activist. She was one of the best-known sex-symbols of the 1960s.In her early life, Bardot was an aspiring ballet dancer...
  
  
• Phil Barney
  Phil Barney
  Phil Barney is a French singer-songwriter. He was particularly successful with his 1987 song "Un Enfant de toi".-Biography:...
  
  
• Alain Barrière
  Alain Barrière
  Alain Barrière is a French singer, who has been active since the 1950s and is known for participating in the 1963 Eurovision Song Contest.- Early life :...
  
  
• Claude Barzotti
  Claude Barzotti
  Claude Barzotti, is a Belgian singer of italian origin of the 1980s. Barzotti recorded several songs which each sold hundreds of thousands of copies. He first achieved success in 1981 with his song "Le Rital."...
  
  
• Alain Bashung
  Alain Bashung
  Alain Bashung was a French singer, songwriter and actor.- Youth :Alain Bashung was the son of a Breton factory worker and French Kabyle father, whom he never knew. His mother remarried, and at the age of one, Bashung was sent to Strasbourg to live with his new stepfather's parents...
  
  
• Axel Bauer
  Axel Bauer
  Axel Bauer is a French singer.In 2001, his duet with French singer Zazie, "À ma place", reached number four on the French charts.-Biography:...
  
  
• Camille Bazbaz
  Camille Bazbaz
  Camille Bazbaz is an French author-composer-interpreter with French-Lebanese roots, born in 1967 in Suresnes.-Biography:French pop-reggae-soul artist Camille Bazbaz's career began during his college years as a member of the politically charged, rebellious punk rock group Cri de la Mouche . Bazbaz...
  
  
• Guy Béart
  Guy Béart
  Guy Béart is a French singer and songwriter.-Biography:He was born Guy Béhart-Hasson in Cairo, Egypt, to a family of Spanish, Swiss, and Russian background. His religious background is unclear, having been referred to as both Jewish and Christian...
  
  
• Gilbert Bécaud
  Gilbert Bécaud
  Gilbert Bécaud was a French singer, composer and actor, known as "Monsieur 100,000 Volts" for his energetic performances. His best-known hits are "Nathalie" and "Et Maintenant", a 1961 release that became an English language hit as "What Now My Love"...
  
  
• Marie-Paule Belle
• Bénabar
  Bénabar
  Bénabar is a French songwriter and singer, who could be compared to Vincent Delerm and other singers from his generation. As many of them he was influenced by Georges Brassens, Renaud, Jacques Higelin and also Tom Waits. His songs describe day-to-day life events with humour and a tender cynicism...
  
  
• Amel Bent
  Amel Bent
  Amel Bent is a French singer.- Biography :Amel Bent grew up in the French commune of La Courneuve with her Algerian father and a Moroccan mother. She has a brother and a sister...
  
  
• Michel Berger
  Michel Berger
  Michel Berger , born Michel Jean Hamburger, was a very successful French singer and songwriter. He was a central figure of France's pop music scene for two decades both as a singer and as a songwriter for well-known French artists like his wife France Gall, Françoise Hardy and Johnny Hallyday...
  
  
• Jac Berrocal
  Jac Berrocal
  Jacques "Jac" Berrocal is a French trumpeter, singer and composer. He has been active since the 1970s in the independent and avant-garde music scene, and has released many albums. He also founded and performed in the group Catalogue, and has collaborated with Ron Anderson...
  
  
• Louis Bertignac
  Louis Bertignac
  Louis Bertignac is a French guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. An ex Shakin' Street member and a founding member in 1976 of the rock band Téléphone, he formed Bertignac et les Visiteurs after Téléphone split in 1986...
  
  
• Bibie
  Bibie
  Bibie is an African singer, famous for her 1985 hit "Tout doucement".-Biography:...
  
   (born in Ghana
  Ghana
  Ghana , officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country located in West Africa. It is bordered by Côte d'Ivoire to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, Togo to the east, and the Gulf of Guinea to the south...
  
  , with a singing career in France)
• Bill Baxter
  Bill Baxter (band)
  Bill Baxter is a French group composed of Joe Cool , Louis Primo and Bo Gesture , and particularly known for their 1985 hit single "Embrasse-moi, idiot!".-History:...
  
  
• Benjamin Biolay
  Benjamin Biolay
  Benjamin Biolay is a French singer, songwriter, musician, actor and record producer. He is the brother of singer Coralie Clément, whose two albums he wrote and produced, and the ex-husband of Chiara Mastroianni, the daughter of Catherine Deneuve and Marcello Mastroianni.His low-key vocal style is...
  
  
• Ronnie Bird
  Ronnie Bird
  Ronnie Bird, born Ronald Méhu, is a French singer born in Boulogne-sur-Seine on the 24 April 1946. As a student, he attended lycée Claude Bernard until he had an argument with a teach. He debuted his recording career in 1964 with Decca, with the title track Adieu à un ami, which was a homage to...
  
  
• Jane Birkin
  Jane Birkin
  Jane Mallory Birkin, OBE is an English-born actress and singer who lives in France. In recent years she has written her own album, directed a film and become an outspoken proponent of democracy in Burma.- Early life :...
  
   (born in England
  England
  England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
  
  , with a singing career in France)
• Blacko (band : Sniper
  Sniper (group)
  Sniper is a French hip hop Band from the Val-d'Oise department. The group consists of Tunisiano , Aketo , and Blacko, formerly Black Renega .- Biography :...
  
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• Gérard Blanc
  Gérard Blanc
  Gérard Blanc was a French singer and guitarist.-Biography:He began to sing in the 1970s with the band Martin Circus. Then in the 1980s, he participated in the production of Princess Stephanie of Monaco's first album, and started a solo career...
  
  
• Gérard Blanchard
• Lucky Blondo
• Benoît Blue Boy
• Bob (band : Watcha)
• Julie B. Bonnie
• Bernie Bonvoisin
• Boris
• Bortek
• Bourvil
  Bourvil
  André Bourvil, born André Robert Raimbourg was a French actor and singer best known for his roles in comedy, most notably in his collaboration with Louis de Funès in La Grande Vadrouille .-Biography:His father was killed in the First World War before Bourvil was born...
  
  
• Jacqueline Boyer
  Jacqueline Boyer
  Jacqueline Boyer is a French singer and actress, the daughter of performers Jacques Pills and Lucienne Boyer....
  
  
• Lucienne Boyer
  Lucienne Boyer
  Lucienne Boyer was a French diseuse and singer, best known for her song "Parlez-moi d'amour". Her impresario was Bruno Coquatrix.-Early career:...
  
  
• Mike Brant
  Mike Brant
  Mike Brant was an Israeli pop star who achieved fame after moving to France. His most successful hit was "Laisse-moi t'aimer"...
  
   (born in Israel
  Israel
  The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
  
  , with a singing career in France)
• Georges Brassens
  Georges Brassens
  Georges Brassens , 22 October 1921 – 29 October 1981), was a French singer-songwriter and poet.Brassens was born in Sète, a town in southern France near Montpellier...
  
  
• Jacques Brel
  Jacques Brel
  Jacques Brel was a Belgian singer-songwriter who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following in France initially, and later throughout the world. He was widely considered a master of the modern chanson...
  
   (born in Belgium
  Belgium
  Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
  
  , with a singing career in France)
• Françoiz Breut
  Françoiz Breut
  Françoiz Breut is the stage name of Françoise Breut, a French illustrator and chanteuse of moody and melancholic pop. Breut got involved with music when her then-fiancé, French pop star Dominique A, asked her to contribute vocals on three songs of his 1993 album, Si Je Connais Harry...
  
  
• Billy Bridge
• Dany Brillant
  Dany Brillant
  Dany Brillant, born Daniel Cohen-Biran in Tunis, Tunisia. He is a Tunisian-French vocalist.In June 2005, Brillant appeared on Les stars chantent leurs idoles, on France 2, alongside stars such as Julio Iglesias and Il Divo....
  
  
• Patrick Bruel
  Patrick Bruel
  Patrick Bruel is a French singer, actor, and professional poker player of Algerian Jewish descent.-Biography:...
  
  
• Carla Bruni
  Carla Bruni
  Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is an Italian-French songwriter, singer, actress, and former model...
  
   born in Italy
  Italy
  Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
  
  
• Rodolphe Burger
• Jean-Jacques Burnel
  Jean-Jacques Burnel
  J. J. Burnel , is a Franco-English musician producer and songwriter, best known as the bass guitarist with the British rock band The Stranglers.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Buzy
  Buzy
  Buzy was a Japanese female pop music group, made up of members Nao Toyama, Mayumi Niwa, Mao Miyazato, Yurisa Asama, Sachiko Iwanaga and Yumi Takeda. They released their first single "Kujira" in 2004. They are well known for the song "Be Somewhere", used as the opening theme of the anime series...
  
  

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• Francis Cabrel
  Francis Cabrel
  Francis Cabrel is a well-known French singer-songwriter and guitarist. Inspired heavily by Bob Dylan, he has released a number of albums falling mostly within the realm of folk, with occasional forays into blues or country. Several of his songs, such as "L'encre de tes yeux" and "Petite Marie"...
  
  
• Cali
  Cali (singer)
  Cali is a French singer-songwriter.- Biography :Cali was born 28 June 1968 in Vernet-les-Bains near Perpignan, to an Italian father and Catalan mother. A fan of English rock and French chanson during his youth, Cali was also a keen rugby player. He played for his region and Perpignan...
  
  
• Calogero
  Calogero
  Calogero is a French singer.-Early years:By the age of six, Calogero had already taken an interest in music...
  
  
• Camille
• Bertrand Cantat
  Bertrand Cantat
  Bertrand Lucien Bruno Cantat is a French singer and songwriter. He was the frontman for the rock band Noir Désir.-Career:Cantat was born in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques. The son of a Navy officer, he spent his childhood in Le Havre...
  
   (band : Noir Désir
  Noir Désir
  Noir Désir was a French rock band from Bordeaux. They were active during the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s, and have had two albums certified double platinum in France and three certified gold. They have been an influence on numerous French musicians including Cali, Louise Attaque and Miossec...
  
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• Jean-Patrick Capdevielle
• Jil Caplan
  Jil Caplan
  Jil Caplan is a French singer and songwriter.-Biography:She studied modern literature at the Sorbonne and theatre at the Cours Florent, where she met Jay Alanski, producer and composer of the most influential pop songs of the 1980s...
  
  
• Jean-Michel Caradec
• Patricia Carli
• Carlos
  Carlos (singer)
  Carlos , born Yvan-Chrysostome Dolto, and sometimes called Jean-Christophe Doltovitch, was a leading French singer, entertainer and actor.-Biography:...
  
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• France Cartigny
• Jean-Roger Caussimon
  Jean-Roger Caussimon
  Jean-Roger Caussimon was a French singer-songwriter and film actor. He appeared in 90 films between 1945 and 1985 but is better known for having worked with poet-singer Léo Ferré.- Discography :...
  
  
• Cerrone
  Cerrone
  Marc Cerrone is a French disco drummer, singer-songwriter and record producer.Marc Cerrone has sold over thirty million albums and has often performed in front of hundreds of thousands of people at huge concerts and events such as The 2005 Dance Party Live in Versailles and The 2000 Los Angeles...
  
  
• Alain Chamfort
  Alain Chamfort
  Alain Chamfort, born Alain Le Govic, is a French singer of Breton origin, born on 2 March 1949 in Paris.He was a promising pianist in his youth, and the piano became his instrument of choice...
  
  
• Manu Chao
  Manu Chao
  Manu Chao , is a French singer of Spanish roots . He sings in French, Spanish, English, Italian, Galician, Arabic and Portuguese and occasionally in other languages...
  
  
• Corynne Charby
  Corynne Charby
  Corynne Charby is a French actress, pop singer and model.-Modeling:Born Corinne Charbit in Paris, Charby grew up in France, and left school after the troisième . In the late 70s, she began a successful career as a model...
  
  
• Éric Charden (born in Vietnam
  Vietnam
  Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
  
  , with a singing career in France)
• Jeremy Chatelain
  Jérémy Châtelain
  Jérémy Chatelain is a French singer, actor, and fashion designer. He is married to Alizée Jacotey with whom he has a child, Anny-Lee . He participated in the second season of the reality TV show Star Academy France.-Career:...
  
  
• Louis Chedid
  Louis Chedid
  Louis Chedid is a French singer-songwriter of Lebanese origin.-Biography:Louis Chedid is the son of the writer Andrée Chedid and the father of Matthieu Chedid ....
  
  
• Georges Chelon
  Georges Chelon
  Georges Chelon is a French singer and songwriter. He was made a member of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1985.-Discography:* 1965 Père prodigue* 1965 15-20 et plus...* 1966 La bourse des chansons N°15...
  
  
• Karen Cheryl
• Maurice Chevalier
  Maurice Chevalier
  Maurice Auguste Chevalier was a French actor, singer, entertainer and a noted Sprechgesang performer. He is perhaps best known for his signature songs, including Louise, Mimi, Valentine, and Thank Heaven for Little Girls and for his films including The Love Parade and The Big Pond...
  
  
• Christophe
  Christophe (singer)
  Christophe is a French singer and songwriter. He was born Daniel Bevilacqua on 13 October 1945 in Juvisy-sur-Orge, Essonne to Italian parents....
  
  
• Philippe Clay
  Philippe Clay
  Philippe Clay, born Philippe Mathevet, was a French mime artist, singer and actor.He was known for his tall and slim silhouette and for his interpretations of songs by Charles Aznavour, Claude Nougaro, Jean-Roger Caussimon, Boris Vian, Serge Gainsbourg, Jean Yanne, Léo Ferré, Jacques Datin,...
  
  
• Coralie Clément
  Coralie Clément
  Coralie Clément is a French singer.-Biography:Clément was born into a family of musicians, her father a clarinetist, and studied the violin from the age of six but later quit. Her brother, Benjamin Biolay, also a singer, has written for Henri Salvador and wrote and produced her own debut, as well...
  
  
• Julien Clerc
  Julien Clerc
  Julien Clerc, , born as Paul Alain Leclerc on 4 October 1947 in Paris, Clerc's parents divorced when he was still young. He grew up listening to classical music in his father's home, while his mother introduced him to the music of such singers as Georges Brassens and Edith Piaf...
  
  
• Richard Cocciante (born in Vietnam
  Vietnam
  Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
  
  , with a singing career in France)
• Annie Cordy
  Annie Cordy
  Léonie Cooreman known under the stage name Annie Cordy is a Belgian film actress and singer. She has appeared in 50 films since 1954. She has staged many memorable appearances at Bruno Coquatrix' famous Paris Olympia...
  
  
• Karine Costa
  Karine Costa
  Karine Costa is a French singer born in 1977 in Paris, particularly known for her songs from Disney films.-Musical career:She is the singing voice of Jasmine in the animated film Aladdin, produced by Disney studios and released in 1992...
  
  
• Patrick Coutin
• Charlélie Couture
  Charlélie Couture
  Charlélie Couture is a French musician and multi-disciplinary artist, who has recorded over 25 albums and 17 film soundtracks, and has held a number of exhibitions of paintings and photographs...
  
  
• Hervé Cristiani
• Nicole Croisille
  Nicole Croisille
  Nicole Croisille , is a French singer and actress. She has appeared in 24 films between 1961 and 2005 and recorded albums since 1961. Croisille made an attempt to represent France in the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Tu m'avais dit," but was not selected.-External links:...
  
  
• Pauline Croze
  Pauline Croze
  Pauline Croze is a French pop/folk singer and musician.She started to sing and play the guitar when she was 14 and 6 years later she made her first demos with Quito of the group Señor Holmes. At this time she made her very first appearance on stage.In 2003, she collaborated with Anne Claverie and...
  
  
• Stan Cuesta
• Czerkinsky
• Celine Dion
  Celine Dion
  Céline Marie Claudette Dion, , , is a Canadian singer. Born to a large family from Charlemagne, Quebec, Dion emerged as a teen star in the French-speaking world after her manager and future husband René Angélil mortgaged his home to finance her first record...
  
  

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• Muriel Dacq
  Muriel Dacq
  Muriel Dacq is a Belgian singer-songwriter, active in the 1980s in France.-Biography:...
  
   (born in Belgium
  Belgium
  Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
  
  , with a singing career in France)
• Étienne Daho
  Étienne Daho
  Étienne Daho is a French singer, songwriter and record producer who has released a number of synth-driven and rock-surf influenced pop hit singles since 1981.- Career :...
  
  
• Dalida
  Dalida
  Dalida , born with Italian name of Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti, was a world-famous singer and actress born in Egypt with Italian origins but naturalised French with the name Yolanda Gigliotti. She spent her early years in Egypt amongst the Italian Egyptian community, but she lived most of her adult...
  
   (born in Egypt
  Egypt
  Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
  
   of Italian ancestry, with a singing career in France and worldwide)
• Damia
  Marie-Louise Damien
  Marie-Louise Damien was a French singer and actress better known by the stage name Damia.-Robert Hollard:...
  
  
• Pascal Danel
  Pascal Danel
  Pascal Danel is a French pop singer and composer. He started his career as a singer in 1964. After two minor hits, he scored a number 1 hit single in France and various European countries with "La Plage aux Romantiques", a gold disc in 1966, followed in 1967 by the international success of...
  
  
• Dani
  Dani (singer)
  Dani is a French actress and singer born on 1 October 1944 in Castres, Tarn, France. Dani was meant to have been France's Eurovision Song Contest 1974 entry, but President Georges Pompidou died in the week of the competition, so she never entered Eurovision properly...
  
  
• Daphné
• Daniel Darc
  Daniel Darc
  Daniel Darc , born Daniel Rozoum, is a French singer, who has achieved success with his band Taxi Girl between 1978 and 1986, and also as a solo artist...
  
  
• Jean-Claude Darnal
• Danielle Darrieux
  Danielle Darrieux
  Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux is a French actress and singer, who has appeared in more than 110 films since 1931. She is one of France's great movie stars and her eight-decade career is among the longest in film history....
  
  
• Joe Dassin
  Joe Dassin
  Joseph Ira Dassin , more commonly known as Joe Dassin, was an American singer-songwriter best known for his French songs of the 1960s and 1970s.-Biography:...
  
   (born in the USA, with a singing career in France)
• Dave
  Dave (singer)
  Dave is the stage name of Wouter Otto Levenbach , a Francophone singer from the Netherlands who had a string of number one hits in France in the 1970s. Despite his great success, he is still virtually unknown in his country of origin.-Biography:His father was Jewish and a professor of English by...
  
   (born in the Netherlands
  Netherlands
  The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
  
  , with a singing career in France)
• FR David
• David et Jonathan
  David et Jonathan
  David et Jonathan was a 1980s vocal duet composed of David Marouani and Jonathan Bermudes . Their notoriety is due to their hits "Bella vita", "Gina" and "Est-ce que tu viens pour les vacances ?" which achieved huge success in France in 1987-1988 and earned Silver and Gold certifications. Several...
  
  
• Joël Daydé
• Gerald De Palmas
  Gérald De Palmas
  Gérald De Palmas is a French singer.-Early life:His father was a land surveyor from Britanny, France and his mother was a French teacher from Réunion. At the age of 10, De Palmas' family left Réunion, to live in Aix-en-Provence, France...
  
  
• Charles DeGoal
• Vincent Delerm
  Vincent Delerm
  Vincent Delerm is a French singer-songwriter, pianist and composer. He is the son of the writer Philippe Delerm....
  
  
• Michel Delpech
  Michel Delpech
  Jean-Michel Delpech, known as Michel Delpech, is a French singer-songwriter.-Career:In 1963, he had his debut release hit "Anatole" on Disques Vogue...
  
  
• Lucienne Delyle
  Lucienne Delyle
  Lucienne Delyle was a French singer.After the very famous song Mon amant de Saint-Jean , in 1942, Lucienne Delyle became the most popular French female singer of 1950s....
  
  
• Graziella de Michele
  Graziella de Michele
  Graziella de Michele is a French singer-songwriter famous for her 1987 single "Le Pull-over blanc", which was a top three hit on the SNEP singles chart and achieved Silver status. The song was first covered by Arno Hintjens in 1990, then by Alexandre Balduzzi and Nolwenn Leroy in 2003 on Star...
  
  
• Willy Denzey
  Willy Denzey
  William Thongrasamy, known under the pseudonym Willy Denzey is a Contemporary R&B and soul French-born singer with Laotian origins.-Biography:...
  
  
• Bill Deraime
  Bill Deraime
  Alain "Bill" Deraime is a French blues singer, born in Senlis, Oise in 1947.-External links:*...
  
  
• Henri Dès
  Henri Dès
  Henri Dès is a French language children's singer and songwriter immensely popular in European Francophone countries. In 1970, he released his first album, Retour...
  
   (for children)
• Noël Deschamps
• Lizzy Mercier Descloux
  Lizzy Mercier Descloux
  Lizzy Mercier Descloux was a French singer and musician, a pioneer in the worldbeat genre, as well as a writer and painter....
  
  
• Linda de Suza
  Linda de Suza
  Linda de Suza Linda de Suza Linda de Suza (born Teolinda Joaquina de Sousa Lança, 22 February 1948, Beringel, Beja (Alentejo), is a Portuguese and French singer, actress and author. At age 3 Linda's family moved to Lisbon....
  
   (born Teolinda Joaquina de Souza Lança in Portugal
  Portugal
  Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
  
  , with a singing career in both France
  France
  The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
  
   and Portugal
  Portugal
  Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
  
  )
• Desireless
  Desireless
  Desireless is a French singer. Between 1986 and 1988, her hit single "Voyage Voyage" made it to number one in many European and Asian single charts and sold over five million copies.-Albums:* François #29 France* I love you...
  
  
• Discobitch
  Discobitch
  Discobitch is a French electronic music project founded by Kylian Mash with Laurent Konrad.Their first single, "C'est beau la bourgeoisie", was a huge club hit in a number of European countries. It was number two in France and Belgium , number four in Belgium , number 19 in Switzerland and number...
  
  
• Sacha Distel
  Sacha Distel
  Sacha Distel was a French singer and guitarist who had hits with a cover version of the Academy Award-winning "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" , "Scoubidou", and "The Good Life". He was born in Paris.-Career:Sacha Distel, born Alexandre Distel, was a son of Russian White émigré Leonid Distel...
  
  
• Alice Dona
• Julien Doré
  Julien Doré
  Julien Doré is a French singer, winner of the fifth season of the television show Nouvelle Star, aired on the French Television M6 channel....
  
  
• Françoise Dorléac
  Françoise Dorléac
  Françoise Dorléac was a French actress. Born in Paris, she was the daughter of screen actor Maurice Dorléac and Renée Deneuve, and was the elder sister of Catherine Deneuve. The two sisters starred together in the 1967 musical, The Young Girls of Rochefort...
  
  
• Dorothée
  Dorothée
  Dorothée , the stage name of Frédérique Hoschedé, is a French singer and TV presenter.- Biography :1. Her childhood :...
  
   (for children)
• Gill Dougherty
  Gill Dougherty
  Gill Dougherty is a French singer and song writer, heavily influenced by 70s and 80s rock, who was born April 1961 in Toulouse.At the end of the seventies, punk rock was sweeping through France and he found inspiration with The Jam, The Clash, Sex Pistols, The B-52's, and The Ramones In France, he...
  
  
• Gilles Dreu
• Marie Dubas
  Marie Dubas
  Marie Dubas was a music-hall singer, diseuse and comedienne.Born in Paris, France, Marie Dubas began her career as a stage actress but became famous as a singer. Using the great Yvette Guilbert as her model, Dubas started singing in the small cabarets of Montmartre mixing comedy into her routine...
  
  
• Anne Ducros
  Anne Ducros
  Anne Ducros is a French singer.On her album Piano, piano , she recorded various jazz standards with accompaniments from Chick Corea, Enrico Pieranunzi, René Urtreger and Benoît de Mesmay....
  
  
• Daniele Dupre
  Danièle Dupré
  Danièle Dupré was a French singer from the 1950s, most notable for representing Luxembourg in the 1957 Eurovision Song Contest with her song Amours mortes – Faded Love – where she finished in a tie for fourth....
  
  
• Jean Dujardin
  Jean Dujardin
  -Life and career:Dujardin was born in Rueil-Malmaison. Dujardin first became famous on the French talent show Graines de star in 1996 as part of the comedy group Nous C Nous, formed by members of the Carré blanc theater. From 1999 to 2003 he starred in the French version of the comedy television...
  
   (comic performer & singer)
• Yves Duteil
  Yves Duteil
  Yves Duteil is a French singer-songwriter. He was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine , in 24 July 1949 and is the third child to be born in the family....
  
  
• Jacques Dutronc
  Jacques Dutronc
  Jacques Dutronc is a French singer, songwriter, guitarist, composer, and actor. He has been married to singer Françoise Hardy since 30 March 1981 and the two have a son . He also has been a longtime songwriting collaborator with Jacques Lanzmann...
  
  

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• Edith Piaf
  Édith Piaf
  Édith Piaf , born Édith Giovanna Gassion, was a French singer and cultural icon who became widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer. Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being ballads...
  
  
• Elsa
  Elsa Lunghini
  Elsa Lunghini, stage name Elsa , is a French singer and actress. She was a famous teenage pop-star in the late-1980s. In 1986, she was the youngest singer ever to reach number one in the French charts with the single T'en va pas, and she went on to sell millions of records during the decade...
  
  
• Emmanuelle
  Emmanuelle
  Emmanuelle is the lead character in a series of French softcore erotic movies based on a character created by Emmanuelle Arsan in the novel Emmanuelle...
  
  
• Enzo Enzo
• Pauline Ester
  Pauline Ester
  Pauline Ester is a French singer.-Biography:Her album Le Monde est fou, certified Gold disc, met success by the general public between 1989 and 1991 thanks to the songs "Le Monde est fou", "Il fait chaud", "Une Fenêtre ouverte", and particularly "Oui, j'l'adore", which was a hit in 1990...
  
  
• Patrick Eudeline
• EMA

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• Lara Fabian
  Lara Fabian
  Lara Fabian is a Belgian-Italian international singer who also holds Canadian citizenship. Multilingual, she sings in French, Italian and English....
  
   (born in Belgium
  Belgium
  Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
  
  , with a singing career in France)
• Fanny
  Fanny (singer)
  Fanny Biascamano is a French singer.-Biography:She became known in 1991 by participating at the age of 12 years to sequence "Numéro 1 de demain" in TV show Sacrée Soirée host by Jean-Pierre Foucault on TF1. Her performance of Édith Piaf's rock hit "L'Homme à la moto" allows her to release her...
  
  
• Mylène Farmer
  Mylène Farmer
  Mylène Farmer, , born Marie-Hélène Jeanne Gautier, , , is a French singer, songwriter, occasional actress and author....
  
   (born in Canada
  Canada
  Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
  
  , with a singing career in France)
• (Les) fatals picards
  Les Fatals Picards
  Les Fatals Picards is a French rock/punk band, founded in 1996.The Fatals Picards are best known to general audiences because they represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with the song L'amour à la française , after winning the national selection.Their name means "the fatal [men]...
  
  
• François Feldman
  François Feldman
  François Feldman is a French singer. He had a great success in the 1980s and the 1990s in France.-Biography:The young François Feldman spent his adolescence listening soul music, including songs by Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and James Brown, among other artists...
  
  
• Fernandel
  Fernandel
  Fernand Joseph Désiré Contandin , better known as Fernandel, was a French actor and singer. Born in Marseille, France, he was a comedy star who first gained popularity in French vaudeville, operettas, and music-hall revues...
  
  
• Louise Féron
  Louise Féron
  - Discography :* Louise Féron produced by John Cale* Singulière Et Plurielle * New Album - External links :*...
  
  
• Jean Ferrat
  Jean Ferrat
  Jean Ferrat was a French singer-songwriter and poet. He specialized in singing poetry, particularly that of Louis Aragon.-Biography:...
  
  
• Léo Ferré
  Léo Ferré
  Léo Ferré was a Franco-Monegasque poet, composer, singer and musician.Born in Monaco, Ferré mixed love and melancholy with moral anarchy, lyricism with slang, rhyming verse with prose monologues...
  
   (born in Monaco
  Monaco
  Monaco , officially the Principality of Monaco , is a sovereign city state on the French Riviera. It is bordered on three sides by its neighbour, France, and its centre is about from Italy. Its area is with a population of 35,986 as of 2011 and is the most densely populated country in the...
  
  , with a singing career in France)
• Nino Ferrer
  Nino Ferrer
  Nino Ferrer was a famous French – Italian singer, actor and jazz musician.- From prehistory to jazz :...
  
  
• Catherine Ferry
  Catherine Ferry (singer)
  Catherine Ferry is a French singer.In 1976, at the Eurovision Song Contest, Catherine Ferry represented France with the song "1,2,3 " . She ranked second in the contest...
  
  
• Thomas Fersen
  Thomas Fersen
  Thomas Fersen is a French singer-songwriter.During his childhood, he was part of a punk group before playing the piano in café-theatres...
  
  
• Patrick Fiori
  Patrick Fiori
  Patrick Fiori is a French singer.-Biography:Fiori was born to an Armenian father and a Corsican mother in Marseille, France. When he was only 12 years old, he was offered his first role in the musical La légende des santonniers...
  
  
• Floanne (French chanteuse, born in France
  France
  The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
  
  , leaving in New York
  New York
  New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
  
  
• Liane Foly
  Liane Foly
  Liane Foly, is an popular French blues and jazz singer, actress, presenter and impressionist.-Early years:Foly was born the 16 December 1962 in the 7th arrondissement of Lyon. Her parents, a merchant family in French Algeria, returned to France in 1962 with the Pied-Noir community and moved to...
  
  
• Brigitte Fontaine
  Brigitte Fontaine
  Brigitte Fontaine, born in 1939 in Morlaix in the Brittany region of France, is a singer of avant-garde music. During the course of her career she has employed numerous unusual musical styles, melding rock and roll, folk, jazz, electronica, spoken word poetry and world rhythms...
  
  
• Tom Frager
  Tom Frager
  Tom Frager is a French songwriter and performer in the group Gwayav' and is ten times a surfer winner in Guadeloupe. He is primarily known for his French hit "Lady Melody", which was number-one for four weeks.-Biography:...
  
  , (born in Senegal
  Senegal
  Senegal , officially the Republic of Senegal , is a country in western Africa. It owes its name to the Sénégal River that borders it to the east and north...
  
  , with a singing career in France)
• Claude François
  Claude François
  Claude François was a French pop singer, songwriter and dancer. He wrote "Comme d'habitude," the original version of "My Way."-Early life:...
  
  
• Frédéric François
  Frédéric François
  Frédéric François is a Belgian – Italian singer, born in Sicily, near Palermo.-Biography:In 1952, his family left his village to settle in Wallonia, Tilleur . When he was 12, he bought a guitar and sang at night in cabarets after work at the mine, with his father...
  
   (born Francesco Barracata,aka François Barra in Sicily
  Sicily
  Sicily is a region of Italy, and is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. Along with the surrounding minor islands, it constitutes an autonomous region of Italy, the Regione Autonoma Siciliana Sicily has a rich and unique culture, especially with regard to the arts, music, literature,...
  
  , Italy
  Italy
  Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
  
  ,residing in French speaking Wallonia, Belgium
  Belgium
  Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
  
  
• Jean-Pierre François
  Jean-Pierre François
  Jean-Pierre François is a French singer and former footballer. He remained particularly known for his 1989 summer hit "Je te survivrai", a love song written by Didier Barbelivien, which reached number 2 on the French Singles Chart....
  
  
• Fréhel
  Fréhel
  Fréhel was a French singer and actress.-Biography:Born in Paris, France to a poor and dysfunctional Breton family, Marguerite Boulc'h was a child left to a life on the streets in the dark side of Paris...
  
  
• Michel Fugain
  Michel Fugain
  Michel Fugain is a French singer and composer. Originally he released music along with his singers and dancers entitled "Le Big Bazar" but went for a more solo approach 1977. In 1969 he published his first album: Je n'aurai pas le temps...
  
  

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• Jean Gabin
  Jean Gabin
  -Biography:Born Jean-Alexis Moncorgé in Paris, he grew up in the village of Mériel in the Seine-et-Oise département, about 22 mi north of Paris. The son of cabaret entertainers, he attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly...
  
  
• Charlotte Gainsbourg
  Charlotte Gainsbourg
  Charlotte Lucy Gainsbourg is an Anglo-French actress and singer. After releasing an album with her father at the age of fifteen, more than twenty years passed before she released two albums as an adult to commercial and critical success...
  
  
• Serge Gainsbourg
  Serge Gainsbourg
  Serge Gainsbourg, born Lucien Ginsburg was a French singer-songwriter, actor and director. Gainsbourg's extremely varied musical style and individuality make him difficult to categorize...
  
  
• France Gall
  France Gall
  France Gall is a popular French yé-yé singer.Gall was married to, and had a successful singing career in partnership with, French singer-songwriter Michel Berger....
  
  
• Jesse Garon
• Julie Gayet
• Danyel Gérard
  Danyel Gérard
  Danyel Gérard is a French pop singer and composer.Gérard was born in Paris to an Armenian father and an Italian mother, but grew up mainly in Rio de Janeiro. In 1953 he returned again to Paris and became a choir boy at Notre Dame. Following this he played in the rock and roll band The Dangers...
  
  
• Gold
  Gold (band)
  Gold is a French music band from Toulouse which enjoyed considerable success in the Francophone world in the 1980s.-History:Gold was originally composed of five musicians : Lucien Crémadès , Alain Llorca , Bernard Mazauric , Etienne Salvador and lead singer/guitarist Emile Wandelmer.The group...
  
   (band)
• Jean-Jacques Goldman
  Jean-Jacques Goldman
  Jean-Jacques Goldman is a Grammy Awards-winning French singer-songwriter. He is hugely popular in the French-speaking world, and since 2003 was the second-highest-grossing French living pop singer, after Johnny Hallyday.- Biography :...
  
  
• Goûts de Luxe
  Goûts de Luxe
  Goûts de Luxe was a French group from Brest, founded by Jacques le Honsec and Jean-Éric Montfort.-Biography:The name of the group was found during a Chanel parade....
  
  
• Chantal Goya
  Chantal Goya
  Chantal Goya is a French singer and actress.Chantal Goya started her career as a yé-yé girl, singing a catchy mid-'60s hybrid of girl-group pop and French chanson...
  
   (for children)
• la Grande Sophie
• Juliette Gréco
  Juliette Gréco
  Juliette Gréco, — also Michelle – is a French actress and popular chanson singer.-Early life and family:Juliette Gréco was born in Montpellier to a Corsican father and a mother who became active in the Résistance, in the Hérault département of southern France. She was raised by her maternal...
  
  
• Grégoire
• Pierre Groscolas
• Bruno Green
• Daniel Guichard
• Jean Guidoni

H

• Arthur H
  Arthur H
  Arthur Higelin , better known under his stage name Arthur H , is a pianist, songwriter and singer. He is best known in France for his live performances - four of his albums were recorded live - and remains relatively little-known in the English-speaking world.-Career:He is the son of the French...
  
  
• François Hadji-Lazaro
• Johnny Hallyday
  Johnny Hallyday
  Johnny Hallyday is a French singer and actor. An icon in the French-speaking world since the beginning of his career, he was considered by some to have been the French Elvis Presley. He was married for 15 years to one of the most popular French female singers: Sylvie Vartan...
  
  
• Françoise Hardy
  Françoise Hardy
  Françoise Madeleine Hardy is a French singer, actress and astrologer. Hardy is an iconic figure in fashion, music and style. She is married to the singer and movie actor Jacques Dutronc.-Biography:...
  
  
• Mireille Hartuch
  Mireille Hartuch
  Mireille Hartuch was a French singer, composer, and actress. She was generally known by the stage name "Mireille"....
  
  
• Thierry Hazard
  Thierry Hazard
  Thierry Hazard , whose real name is Thierry Gesteau is a French singer.-Biography:Hazard was born in Compiègne, France, and grew up in Sèvres. During the 1980s, he became the singer of the band GPS, an acronym of Garage Psychiatric Suburban. The group's guitarist, Tom "Backerfix" Darnal, is indeed...
  
  
• Jacques Higelin
  Jacques Higelin
  Jacques Joseph Victor Higelin is a French pop singer who rose to prominence in the early 1970s. Early in his career, many of Higelin's songs were effectively blacklisted from French radio because of his controversial left wing political beliefs, and his association with socialist groups...
  
  

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• Jacno
  Jacno
  Jacno was a French musician.Born as Denis Quillard, he was a founding member of the first French punk band The Stinky Toys. In the early 1980s, after the group disbanded, he teamed up with former Stinky Toys singer Elli Medeiros to form the pop duo Elli et Jacno...
  
  
• Gerard Jaffrès
  Gerard Jaffrès
  Gérard Jaffrès is a French singer, writer and performer, born in 1956 in Saint-Pol-de-Léon .He started playing the guitar at the age of 15, playing mostly folk repertoire and pop music ....
  
  
• Véronique Jannot
  Véronique Jannot
  Véronique Jannot is a French actress and singer. She was born in Annecy, Haute-Savoie.-Selected filmography:* The Medic * Thieves After Dark * La dernière image -External links:* *...
  
  
• Agnès Jaoui
  Agnès Jaoui
  Agnès Jaoui is a French screenwriter, film director, actress and singer of Tunisian Jewish descent. She frequently works in collaboration with her husband Jean-Pierre Bacri.-Actress:* Le Faucon...
  
  
• Jean-Baptiste Maunier
  Jean-Baptiste Maunier
  Jean-Baptiste Maunier , nicknamed JB or Jean-Bapt, is a French actor and singer famous for his role in the 2004 French film, Les Choristes.- Early life :...
  
  
• Zizi Jeanmaire
  Zizi Jeanmaire
  Zizi Jeanmaire is a ballet dancer and widow of renowned dancer and choreographer Roland Petit. She became famous in the 1950s after playing the title role in the ballet version of Carmen, produced in London in 1949, and went on to appear in several Hollywood films.-Background:Born in Paris,...
  
  
• C. Jérôme
  C. Jérôme
  Claude Dhotel, better known by his stage name C. Jérôme, was a French singer that had a musical career of three decades and sold 26 million records and was particularly popular in the 1970s.In 1995, C...
  
  
• JoeyStarr (band : NTM
  Suprême NTM
  Suprême NTM is a French hip hop group formed in 1989 in the Seine-Saint-Denis département. The group comprises rappers Joey Starr and Kool Shen...
  
  )
• René Joly
  Rene Joly
  Rene Joly set legal precedent on May 16, 1999, when a Canadian judge ruled that due to his alleged status as an E.T., he had no legal standing to present his lawsuit.- Rulings :...
  
  
• Michel Jonasz
  Michel Jonasz
  Michel Jonasz is a French composer-songwriter, singer and actor. His compositions include: La boîte de jazz, Joueurs de blues and Les vacances au bord de la mer....
  
  

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• Patricia Kaas
  Patricia Kaas
  Patricia Kaas is a French singer and actress.Kaas is a very successful French-speaking singer, with an International following...
  
  
• Kamini
  Kamini (musician)
  Kamini Zantoko is a French rapper. In 2006, his songs and music videos about rural French life became an Internet phenomenon.-Biography:...
  
  
• Katerine
  Katerine
  Katerine is a surname or given name, and may refer to:Given name* Katerine Avgoustakis, a winner of the 2005 Star Academy show in Belgium* Katerine Moreno , a Bolivian swimmerSurname* Philippe Katerine, a French singer...
  
  
• Yianna Katsoulos
  Yianna Katsoulos
  Yianna Katsoulos is a 1980s pop singer and who had her singing career in France. Her works were recorded in French-language. She remains famous for her 1986 single "Les autres sont jaloux", which was a top thirty hit in France ; however, her next five singles did not achieve the same success...
  
   (born in the U.S., with a singing career in France)
• Keren Ann
  Keren Ann
  Keren Ann Zeidel is a singer-songwriter-composer-producer and engineer based largely in Paris, Tel Aviv and New York City. She plays guitar, piano and clarinet, engineers and writes choir and musical arrangements.-Life and career:...
  
   (born in Israel
  Israel
  The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
  
  , with a singing career in France)
• Leeroy Kesiah (band : Saïan supa crew
  Saïan Supa Crew
  Saïan Supa Crew is a French rap collective composed of three groups: Explicit Samouraï, OFX and Simple Spirit. The name 'Saïan Supa' is a reference to the Super Saiyan from the manga and anime Dragon Ball Z/GT....
  
  )
• KLR (band : Saïan supa crew
  Saïan Supa Crew
  Saïan Supa Crew is a French rap collective composed of three groups: Explicit Samouraï, OFX and Simple Spirit. The name 'Saïan Supa' is a reference to the Super Saiyan from the manga and anime Dragon Ball Z/GT....
  
  )

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• Mary L
• Jean-Pascal Lacoste
  Jean-Pascal Lacoste
  Jean-Pascal Lacoste is a French singer, actor and TV host.-Career:...
  
  
• Jean-Jacques Lafon
  Jean-Jacques Lafon
  Jean-Jacques Lafon is a French singer-songwriter and painter. He remains known for his 1985 hit "Le géant de papier", which peaked at #6 on the SNEP singles chart and earned a Silver disc...
  
  
• Marie Laforêt
  Marie Laforêt
  Marie Laforêt is a French singer and actress, .In 1978 she moved to Geneva, Switzerland and took out Swiss nationality.-The sources of her birth name:...
  
  
• Valérie Lagrange
• Francis Lalanne
  Francis Lalanne
  Francis Lalanne is a French singer, songwriter and poet. He is the brother of composer Jean-Félix Lalanne and film director René Manzor.- Studio albums :* 1979: Rentre chez toi...
  
  
• Serge Lama
  Serge Lama
  Serge Lama is a French singer. He was born in Bordeaux.His most famous song is Je suis malade. In 1971 he represented France in the Eurovision Song Contest with the song Un jardin sur la terre, which was placed tenth.-Discography:...
  
  
• Boby Lapointe
  Boby Lapointe
  Robert Lapointe was a French singer, noted for his humorous texts, alliterations and plays on words.He was born in Pézenas, in the Hérault département of France...
  
  
• Catherine Lara
  Catherine Lara
  Catherine Lara is a French violinist, composer and singer.-Music career:As a child, Lara studied violin and received the first prize of chamber music at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1966....
  
  
• Laroche-Valmont
  Laroche-Valmont
  Laroche-Valmont is a French singer and a press publisher.-Biography:In the early 1980s, he created several magazines such as Hit magazine, Stéphanie, Super Géant, Privé and books on Claude François, Mesrine, Nostradamus and Coluche...
  
  
• Rose Laurens
  Rose Laurens
  Rose Laurens is a French singer-songwriter, particularly famous for her 1982 smash single "Africa", number three hit in many European countries...
  
  
• Philippe Lavil
  Philippe Lavil
  Philippe Lavil, pseudonym of Philippe Durand de La Villejégu du Fresnay is a French singer. He remained particularly famous for his hits singles "Il tape sur des bambous", "Elle préfère l'amour en mer" and "Kolé séré", a duet with Jocelyne Béroard...
  
  
• Bernard Lavilliers
  Bernard Lavilliers
  Bernard Lavilliers is a French singer.He was born Bernard Oulion in Saint-Étienne, Loire.The band Fatals Picards wrote a song Bernard Lavilliers, satirizing Lavilliers' image as a former adventurer.-Discography:...
  
  
• Marc Lavoine
  Marc Lavoine
  Marc Lucien Lavoine is a French singer and actor. In 1985, his hit single "Elle a les yeux revolver" allowed him to reach the top of the French chart and marked the beginning of his successful singing career....
  
  
• Maxime Le Forestier
  Maxime Le Forestier
  Maxime Le Forestier is a French singer.He was born in Paris to an English father and a French mother who had lived in England. He had two older sisters, Anne and Catherine....
  
  
• Caroline Legrand
  Caroline Legrand
  Caroline Legrand is a 1980s French singer, primarily known for her 1989 hit "J'aurais voulu te dire".-Musical career:She was recruited by the French singer François Feldman after being the first winner of the 'Tremplin de la chanson française' that the Parisian nightclub L'Orange Bleue organized.In...
  
  
• Grégory Lemarchal
  Grégory Lemarchal
  Grégory Jean-Paul Lemarchal was a French singer who rose to fame by winning the fourth series of the reality TV programme Star Academy France, broadcast on the TF1 television network....
  
  
• Gérard Lenorman
  Gérard Lenorman
  Gérard Lenorman is a French singer.Lenorman was born at the Château de Bénouville, Calvados when it was a maternity hospital. He is the son of Madeleine Lenormand and an unknown German soldier. Lenorman has four children: Mathieu, Justine, Clémence and Victor...
  
  
• Nolwenn Leroy
  Nolwenn Leroy
  Nolwenn Leroy, , is a French singer and songwriter, discovered by the French television reality show Star Academy. She is best known for her two Number One singles "Cassé" and "Nolwenn Ohwo!"....
  
  
• Leslie
  Leslie (singer)
  Leslie is a French pop-R&B singer born on February 4, 1985 in Le Mans, France. Her father is Vietnamese and Polynesian while her mother is FrenchIn 2007, she recorded a duet single with the R&B singer Bobby Valentino, "Accorde-moi"....
  
  
• Daniel Lévi
  Daniel Lévi
  Daniel Lévi , is a French singer-songwriter, composer and pianist.-Biography:Daniel Lévi was born in Constantine, French Algeria. He spent his childhood in Lyon, where he was preparing for his job as a musician studying piano for a decade at the conservatory in the city. In 1983, he composed and...
  
   (born in Algeria
  Algeria
  Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...
  
  , with singing career in France)
• Christine Lidon
• Lilicub
  Lilicub
  Lilicub is a French band founded in 1992, mainly known for its 1996 hit "Voyage en Italie".-Biography:The group was originally a trio composed of Catherine Dirand, Benoît Carré and Philippe Zavriew. Benoît met Catherine at a jazz festival in Ampthill...
  
  
• Pierrick Lilliu
  Pierrick Lilliu
  Pierrick Lilliu, born 13 July 1986, is a French rock-singer living in Brittany and was born in Alsace. Eldest of three children, he appeared in the French reality show Nouvelle Star and placed 2nd against Myriam Abel on 12 May 2005....
  
  
• Little Bob
• Caroline Loeb
  Caroline Loeb
  Caroline Loeb , is an actress, radio host, singer, director and French writer. She remains particularly known for her 1980s hit "C'est la ouate".-Filmography:...
  
  
• Emily Loizeau
  Emily Loizeau
  Emily Loizeau is a French author, composer, and singer. Her debut album, released in 2006, was titled L'autre bout du monde .- Biography :...
  
  
• Claudine Longet
  Claudine Longet
  Claudine Georgette Longet is a French singer and recording artist who was popular during the 1960s and 1970s. She is also an actress and a dancer.Born in Paris, France, Longet was married to pop singer Andy Williams from 1961 until 1975...
  
  
• Lova Moor
  Lova Moor
  Lova Moor , is a French dancer, singer and occasional actress.-Biography:She began her career as a nude dancer...
  
  
• Renan Luce
  Renan Luce
  Renan Luce is a French singer and songwriter. His songs are inspired by the 20th century singer and songwriter Georges Brassens and depict everyday life with a dose of humour and poetry.- Biography and musical career :...
  
  
• Sheryfa Luna
  Sheryfa Luna
  Sheryfa Luna is a French R&B singer born to an Algerian father and a French mother.She won the fourth series of the French edition of popular Popstars in October 2007....
  
  
• Freddy Lynxx
• Jena Lee
  Jena Lee
  Sylvia Garcia , more commonly known as Jena Lee is a French singer.-1987–2007: youth:Born in Chile, Sylvia Garcia was adopted by a French family at the age of nine months. She grew up in Oloron-Sainte-Marie in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques and was passionate about music from the age of 4.She recorded...
  
  

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• Mort Shuman
  Mort Shuman
  Mort Shuman was an American singer, pianist and songwriter, best known as co-writer of many 1960s rock and roll hits, including "Viva Las Vegas"...
  
  
• -M-
  Matthieu Chedid
  Matthieu Chedid is a French rock singer-songwriter and guitar player.-Biography:...
  
  
• Mad in Paris
  Mad in Paris
  Mad in Paris is a French hip hop and groove musical band active in the 1990. It was esthablished in 1992 and was composed of eight musicians and one female singer, Ounsa, who respectively came from the southern suburbs of Paris Mad in Paris is a French hip hop and groove musical band active in the...
  
  
• Melissa M
  Melissa M
  Melissa M or Melissa is a French R&B singer with Algerian roots. She started her musical career with Maniac from Norway based in Oslo. Maniac helped Melissa to guide her positively through the music industry...
  
  
• MC Solar
• Mellowman
  Mellowman
  Mellowman is a French hip hop act active during the 1990s, composed of two members, Lee Rick & DJ Cool . The band achieved moderate success in 1995 with its first single, then a bigger success with its second one in France : "Gardez l'écoute" , and "La Voix du Mellow"...
  
  
• Enrico Macias
  Enrico Macias
  Gaston Ghrenassia, known by his stage name Enrico Macias, is an Algerian French Pied noir singer and musician...
  
   (born in Algeria
  Algeria
  Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...
  
  , with a singing career in France)
• Jean-Pierre Mader
  Jean-Pierre Mader
  Jean-Pierre Mader is a French singer-songwriter and producer . He remains particularly known for his smash hit "Macumba", released in 1985...
  
  
• Christophe Maé
  Christophe Maé
  Christophe Maé is a French pop singer.-Career:Maé learned to play the violin at age 6, and later began playing the guitar and harmonica at age 16 after he was immobilised from a chronic illness. He has stated that this was the time when he became inspired by Stevie Wonder...
  
  
• Mano Solo
  Mano Solo
  Mano Solo , born Emmanuel Cabut, was a French singer. He was born in Châlons-sur-Marne on 24 April 1963 to the illustrator Cabu and Isabelle Monin, co-founder of the ecology-related magazine, La Gueule ouverte....
  
  
• Léo Marjane
  Léo Marjane
  Léo Marjane is a French singer who reached the peak of her popularity in the late 1930s and early 1940s, before her career went into sharp decline after the end of World War II....
  
  
• Mireille Mathieu
  Mireille Mathieu
  Mireille Mathieu is a French chanteuse, and pop singer. Hailed in the French press as the successor to Édith Piaf, she has achieved great commercial success, recording over 1200 songs in nine different languages, with more than 120 million records sold worldwide.-Childhood to early...
  
  
• David McNeil
• Colette Magny
• Zézé Mago
• Sara Mandiano
  Sara Mandiano
  Sara Mandiano is a French singer and songwriter, born on January 25, 1958. She is mainly known for her hit "J'ai des doutes", released in 1991.-Musical career:...
  
  
• Gérard Manset
  Gérard Manset
  Gérard Manset is a French singer-songwriter, painter, photographer and writer, most well known for his musical work.Since 1972, the covers of his albums state his name as simply "Manset"...
  
  
• Jeane Manson (born in the USA, with a singing career in France)
• Guy Marchand
  Guy Marchand
  Guy Marchand is a French actor, musician and singer. He is best known for his role as the main character in the French police procedural series Nestor Burma.- Filmography :* 1970 : Boulevard du Rhum, directed by Robert Enrico...
  
  
• Luis Mariano
  Luis Mariano
  Mariano Eusebio González y García aka Luis Mariano was a popular tenor of Spanish Basque origin who achieved celebrity in 1946 with « La belle de Cadix » an operetta by Francis Lopez...
  
   (born in Spain
  Spain
  Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
  
  , with a singing career in France)
• Marie France
• Christophe Marquy
• Jeanne Mas
  Jeanne Mas
  Jeanne Mas, born on 28 February 1958 in Alicante, Spain, is a French pop singer and actress.She was well known in France, Switzerland and Belgium for a number of hit singles released in the 1980s. From the late eighties onwards her career slid into the has-been category. Her first success was...
  
  
• Syd Matters
  Syd Matters
  Syd Matters is a French band fronted by musician Jonathan Morali. At the time of writing, the other band members are Jean-Yves Lozac'h, Olivier Marguerit, Remi Alexandre and Clement Carle. The name Syd Matters comes from the slight modification of the names of two Pink Floyd members: Syd Barrett...
  
  
• Elli Medeiros
  Elli Medeiros
  Elli Medeiros is a singer and actress .- The Stinky Toys :Medeiros moved to Paris, France, at the age of 14, dropped out of high school a couple of years later and joined the punk band The Stinky Toys....
  
  
• Balbino Medellin
• Ménélik
  Ménélik
  Ménélik, now MNLK , is a French rapper.-Biography:He went to France at the age of nine. Then he met MC Solaar and started to write songs for artists such as No Sé, DJ Jimmy Jay and RPM. In 1995, he released his first album entitled Phenomenelik and participated in Solaar's concerts...
  
   (born in Cameroon
  Cameroon
  Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon , is a country in west Central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south. Cameroon's coastline lies on the...
  
  , with a singing career in France)
• Art Mengo
  Art Mengo
  Michel Armengot , more commonly known as Art Mengo, is a French singer and songwriter. Though born in the French city of Toulouse, he is of Spanish descent as his parents had fled from Spanish dictator Francisco Franco....
  
  
• Miossec
  Miossec
  Christophe Miossec is a Breton singer and songwriter born in Brest, Brittany, France on December 24, 1964.-Beginnings:Christophe Miossec was not new to the world of music when he met his first great success. Between 14 and 17, he was in a teenage band, Printemps Noir , touring around Brest...
  
  
• Mirwais
• Mistinguett
  Mistinguett
  Mistinguett was a French actress and singer, whose birth name was Jeanne Bourgeois. She was at one time the best-paid female entertainer in the world...
  
  
• Eddy Mitchell
  Eddy Mitchell
  Eddy Mitchell is a French singer and actor. He began his career in the late 1950s, with the group Les Chaussettes Noires , taking his name from the American expatriate tough-guy actor Eddie Constantine...
  
  
• Ilona Mitrecey
  Ilona Mitrecey
  Ilona Mitrecey is a teenage French singer.-Biography:She became famous in France after the release of her hit single, "Un Monde parfait" , a high-energy eurodance song which had already been released in Italy in March 2004 under the name 'Très Bien featuring Ilona', on 28 February 2005...
  
  
• Stéphanie of Monaco
  Princess Stéphanie of Monaco
  Princess Stéphanie of Monaco, Countess of Polignac is a member of the princely family of Monaco. She is the youngest child of Grace, Princess of Monaco and Rainier III of Monaco, and the sister of Albert II of Monaco and Princess Caroline...
  
   (born in Monaco
  Monaco
  Monaco , officially the Principality of Monaco , is a sovereign city state on the French Riviera. It is bordered on three sides by its neighbour, France, and its centre is about from Italy. Its area is with a population of 35,986 as of 2011 and is the most densely populated country in the...
  
  , with a singing career in France)
• Gilbert Montagné
  Gilbert Montagné
  Gilbert Montagné is a French musician, both a pianist and organist, as well as a singer. Blind from birth, he is best remembered for his international hit "The Fool", which was a number 1 single across Europe in 1971...
  
  
• Yves Montand
  Yves Montand
  -Early life:Montand was born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Terme, Italy, the son of poor peasants Giuseppina and Giovanni Livi, a broommaker. Montand's mother was a devout Catholic, while his father held strong Communist beliefs. Because of the Fascist regime in Italy, Montand's family left for France in...
  
  
• Monty
• Moos
  Moos (singer)
  Moos is a French singer and had a great success with the song "Au Nom de la rose".-Biography:Moos was born in Toulouse to Moroccan parents and raised in the multiethnic neighborhood of Mirail, where different styles are mixed: African raï, funk, R&B...
  
  
• Jeanne Moreau
  Jeanne Moreau
  Jeanne Moreau is a French actress, singer, screenwriter and director.She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française...
  
  
• Éric Morena
  Éric Morena
  Éric Morena is a French singer, made famous by his 1987 hit "Oh ! Mon bateau", which peaked at #22 in France...
  
  
• Dario Moreno
  Darío Moreno
  Darío Moreno was a Turkish polyglot singer of Jewish origin, as well as an accomplished composer, lyricist and guitarist, who was born in Aydın, Turkey, in 1921, and who attained fame and made a remarkable career centered in France which also included films, during the fifties and the...
  
  
• Marcel Mouloudji
• Nana Mouskouri
  Nana Mouskouri
  Nana Mouskouri , born Ioánna Moúschouri on October 13, 1934, in Chania, Crete, Greece, is a Greek singer who has sold about 300 million records worldwide in a career spanning over five decades, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. She was known as Nána to her friends and...
  
   (born in Greece
  Greece
  Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
  
  , with a singing career in France and worldwide)
• Georges Moustaki
  Georges Moustaki
  Giuseppe Mustacchi, known as Georges Moustaki , is a French singer and songwriter of Italo-Greek Jewish origin, best known for his poetic rhythm, eloquent simplicity and his hundreds of romantic songs...
  
  
• Jean-Louis Murat
  Jean-Louis Murat
  Not to be confused with Jean-Paul MaratJean-Louis Murat is the pseudonym of the French singer / songwriter Jean-Louis Bergheaud. He spent much of his childhood with his grandparents in Murat-le-Quaire.- Albums :...
  
  
• Thierry Mutin
  Thierry Mutin
  Thierry Mutin is a French singer of classical music and songwriter , famous for his 1988 hit single "Sketch of Love".-Biography:In 1984, Thierry Mutin released the single "Milliardaire comme personne"...
  
  
• Marie Myriam
  Marie Myriam
  Marie Myriam is a French singer of Portuguese origins...
  
   (born Myriam Lopes in Braga
  Braga
  Braga , a city in the Braga Municipality in northwestern Portugal, is the capital of the Braga District, the oldest archdiocese and the third major city of the country. Braga is the oldest Portuguese city and one of the oldest Christian cities in the World...
  
  , Portugal
  Portugal
  Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
  
  , French/Portuguese singer)
• Myrtille

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• Marie-Josée Neuville
• Nicoletta
  Nicoletta
  Nicoletta or Nicoleta may refer to:* Nicoleta Alexandru, singer who represented Romania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2003* Nicoletta Braschi, Italian actress* Nicoleta Grasu, Romanian discus thrower* Nicoleta Onel, Romanian gymnast...
  
  
• Yannick Noah
  Yannick Noah
  Yannick Noah is a former professional tennis player from France. He is best remembered for being the last French man to win the French Open in 1983, and as a highly-successful captain of France's Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams...
  
  
• Magali Noël
  Magali Noël
  Magali Noël is a Turkish-French actress and singer. Originally from Izmir, she emigrated from Turkey to France in 1951, and her acting career began soon thereafter. She acted in multilingual cinema chiefly from 1951 to 1980, doing several films in Italian with renowned director Federico Fellini,...
  
  
• Claude Nougaro
  Claude Nougaro
  Claude Nougaro was a French songwriter and singer.Claude Nougaro was born in Toulouse to a respected French opera singer, Pierre Nougaro, and an Italian piano teacher, Liette Tellini. He was raised by his grandparents in Toulouse where he heard Glenn Miller, Édith Piaf and Louis Armstrong on the...
  
  
• Tom Novembre
• Nadiya
  Nâdiya
  Nâdiya is a French R&B singer.-Early life:Nâdiya comes from a family of Algerian origin in the region of Mostaganem. She is the youngest in a family of 8 children. Her brothers are named: Kader Touati, Baklavah Waheb and her sisters: Malika, Sidartha and Karla...
  
  

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• Florent Pagny
  Florent Pagny
  Florent Pagny is a French musician. He has also acted in many French films. He records work in French, Italian, Spanish and English, and his greatest hits include "N'importe quoi", "Savoir aimer", "Ma Liberté de penser" and "Caruso" .As of 2008, he has sold 4,268,980 copies of singles,...
  
  
• Michel Paje
• Gérard Palaprat
• Vanessa Paradis
  Vanessa Paradis
  Vanessa Chantal Paradis is a French singer, model and actress. She became a child star at 14 with the worldwide success of her single "Joe le taxi"...
  
  
• Partenaire Particulier
  Partenaire Particulier
  Partenaire Particulier is French pop, electronic, and new wave band from Bordeaux, which was successful in France in the mid 1980s. Three of their singles were ranked on the SNEP chart , including their signature song "Partenaire Particulier"...
  
  
• Jean-Claude Pascal
  Jean-Claude Pascal
  Jean-Claude Pascal was a French comedian and singer.After surviving the Second World War in Straßburg, Pascal first studied at the Sorbonne-university and then turned to fashion-designing for Christian Dior...
  
  
• Passi
  Passi
  Passi is a French hip hop artist who became famous in the mid-1990s with the group Ministère AMER, which included himself and Stomy Bugsy. He is most widely known, however, as a solo artist, as well as a participant in many other groups, such as Bisso Na Bisso and Dis l'heure 2 zouk.- Biography...
  
  
• Thierry Pastor
  Thierry Pastor
  Thierry Pastor is a French singer and composer known for his 1980s hits "Le Coup de folie" and "Sur des Musiques Noires"...
  
   (born in North Africa
  North Africa
  North Africa or Northern Africa is the northernmost region of the African continent, linked by the Sahara to Sub-Saharan Africa. Geopolitically, the United Nations definition of Northern Africa includes eight countries or territories; Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, South Sudan, Sudan, Tunisia, and...
  
  , with a singing career in France)
• Patachou
  Patachou
  Patachou, real name Henriette Ragon is a French singer and actress. She is an Officier of the Légion d'honneur.-Early life:...
  
  
• Patsy
  Patsy
  Patsy is a given name often used as a diminutive of the feminine given name Patricia or sometimes the masculine name Patrick, or occasionally other names containing the syllable "Pat" or "Pet" .-Historical usage:...
  
  
• Sabine Paturel
  Sabine Paturel
  Sabine Paturel is a French singer and actress.-Biography:Paturel was born in Toulon, and has three sisters.In 1986, her first single "Les Bêtises" stayed for 30 weeks in the French singles chart from March to October 1986, peaking at #2 for several weeks and achieving Gold status...
  
  
• Pauline
  Pauline (singer)
  Pauline Vasseur , who performs under the mononym Pauline, is a French composer, songwriter and singer.-Biography:...
  
  
• Guesch Patti
  Guesch Patti
  Guesch Patti, , born Patricia Porasse, is a French singer.-Early life:Patti was born in Paris, France. She chose her artist name from the nickname she had as a child Guesch...
  
  
• Pierre Perret
  Pierre Perret
  Pierre Perret , is a French singer and composer. Pierre Perret resides in the city of Nangis.- Biography :...
  
  
• Paul Personne
  Paul Personne
  Paul Personne is a French blues singer and guitarist.-Studio albums:* Paul Personne * Exclusif * Barjoland * 24/24...
  
  
• Peter & Sloane
  Peter and Sloane
  Peter and Sloane was a 1980s French musical group. This duet was composed of Jean-Pierre Savelli and Chantal Richard . Their greatest hit was the song "Besoin de rien, envie de toi", which was number 1 for nine weeks in 1984 in France....
  
  
• Nicolas Peyrac
  Nicolas Peyrac
  Nicolas Peyrac is a French musician, writer and photographer.-Youth:Jean-Jacques spent his youth in the small town of Saint-Brice-en-Coglès, $2, together with his brothers and parents, both of whom were physicians. As a youngster, not partial to the advance of rock 'n' roll, he had a passion for...
  
  
• Édith Piaf
  Édith Piaf
  Édith Piaf , born Édith Giovanna Gassion, was a French singer and cultural icon who became widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer. Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being ballads...
  
  
• Anne Pigalle
  Anne Pigalle
  Anne Pigalle is a singer and multimedia artist .-Biography:She grew up in Paris, moved to London, and has performed all over the world, including Europe, Japan, America, Mexico, Timbuktu in Africa.In 1985, she released the album Everything Could Be So Perfect with Trevor Horn on ZTT Records, and...
  
  
• Hélène Pince
• Pol Plançon
  Pol Plançon
  Pol-Henri Plançon was a distinguished French operatic bass . He was one of the most acclaimed singers active during the 1880s, 1890s and early 20th century—a period often referred to as the "Golden Age of Opera".In addition to being among the earliest international opera stars to have made...
  
  
• Benoît Poher (band : Kyo
  Kyo (band)
  -Biography:Since attending collège in Yvelines, the two brothers, Fabien and Florian Dubos, and two friends Nicolas Chassagne and Benoît Poher, discovered they had the same passion for bands such as Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine and Soundgarden. In 1997, they met their manager, who...
  
  )
• Élisa Point
• Michel Polnareff
  Michel Polnareff
  Michel Polnareff, born in Nérac on 3 July 1944, is a French singer-songwriter who was very popular from the mid-1960s until the early 1980s...
  
  
• Fred Poulet
• Princess Erika
  Princess Erika
  Princess Erika , is a French singer and actress with Cameroonian origins. She is particularly known for her ragga songs "Trop de bla-bla" ou "Faut qu'j'travaille".-Biography:...
  
  

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• Raft
  Raft (band)
  Raft is a French pop band active in the 1980s, most notable for their 1987 hit single, "Yaka dansé ".-Biography:The band was a duet composed of Christian Fourgeron and Pierre Schott . They begin their musical career in 1985 with their single "Io " which passed unnoticed in France...
  
  
• Raphaël
  Raphaël
  -List of people with the given name Raphaël:*Raphaël Haroche*Raphaël Salem*Raphaël Ibañez*Raphaël Bohren*Raphaël Piolanti*Raphaël Wicky*Raphaël Poulain*Raphaël Nadé*Raphaël Géminiani*Raphaël Alibert*Raphaël Poirée*Raphaël Lévy*Raphaël Jacquelin...
  
  
• Serge Reggiani
  Serge Reggiani
  Serge Reggiani was an Italian-born French singer and actor. He was born in Reggio Emilia, Italy and moved to France with his parents at the age of eight...
  
   (born in Italy
  Italy
  Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
  
  , with a singing career in France)
• Régine (born in Belgium
  Belgium
  Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
  
  , with a singing career in France)
• Renaud
  Renaud
  Renaud, born Renaud Séchan, is a French singer, songwriter and actor.Renaud may also refer to:* Renaud , a male French given name* Renaud , a 1783 opera by Antonio Sacchini* Renaud, Quebec, part of Laval, Quebec...
  
  
• Line Renaud
  Line Renaud
  - Early life :Line Renaud was born in Pont-de-Nieppe on 2 July 1928. Her mother Simone was a shorthand typist; her father was a truck driver during the week, but he played trumpet at the weekends, in a local brass band...
  
  
• Axelle Renoir
  Axelle Renoir
  Axelle Renoir is a French singer from Brittany. She has released three studio albums and composed the soundtrack of two French films.-Biography and career:...
  
  
• Dick Rivers
  Dick Rivers
  Dick Rivers is a French singer and actor who has been performing since the early 1960s. He was an important figure in introducing rock and roll music in France. He is known for being an admirer of Elvis Presley, who highly influenced both his singing and looks...
  
  
• Robert
  Robert (singer)
  Robert, or RoBERT , is a French singer, composer and lyricist.An independent artist and songwriter, Robert's musical style is described as fairy-like, halfway between the tragic and the gothic, sometimes with a pinch of nonsense...
  
  
• Mado Robin
  Mado Robin
  Madeleine Marie Robin, known as Mado Robin , was a French coloratura soprano.She was born in Yzeures-sur-Creuse, Touraine, where she owned the Château Les Vallées. A star of television and radio in the 1950s, she was well known in France...
  
  
• Sébastien Roch
  Sébastien Roch (singer)
  Sébastien Roch is a French actor, singer and television host. He achieved notability with his role of Christian in the TV series Hélène et les Garçons and Les Vacances de l'amour...
  
  
• Hélène Rollès
  Hélène Rollès
  Hélène Rollès is a French actress and singer, primarily known for her major role in the TV sitcom Helen and the boys , alongside Sébastien Roch....
  
  
• Alexandra Roos
• Christine Roque
  Christine Roque
  Christine Roque is a French singer , a one-hit wonder for her 1987 hit single "Premiers frissons d'amour".-Biography:After being a classical dance teacher, she decided to go to Paris to begin a music career...
  
  
• Tino Rossi
  Tino Rossi
  Tino Rossi was a singer and film actor.Born Constantino Rossi in Ajaccio, Corsica, France, he became a tenor of French cabaret and one of the great romantic idols of his time. Gifted with an operatic voice, a "Latin Lover" persona made him a movie star as well...
  
  
• Rosy Armen
  Rosy Armen
  Rosy Armen , born on May 1, is a French singer of Armenian descent. She is a multilingual singer, with most songs in French and Armenian, but also in English, German, Spanish and Italian.- Biography :...
  
  
• Olivia Ruiz
  Olivia Ruiz
  Olivia Blanc known as Olivia Ruiz is a female French pop singer of partial Spanish origin belonging to the nouvelle chanson genre.-Biography:...
  
  
• Philippe Russo
  Philippe Russo
  Philippe Russo is a French singer-songwriter . He had a hit in 1987 in France with his single "Magie noire", devoted to the discothèques, which peaked at #10 on the SNEP Singles Chart. Then he published several singles until 1991, but they were unsuccessful and failed to reach the chart. Therefore,...
  
  

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• Jean Sablon
  Jean Sablon
  Jean Sablon was a popular French singer and actor.The son of a composer, with brothers and sisters who had successful careers of their own in musical entertainment, Jean Sablon studied piano at the Lyceé Charlemagne in Paris...
  
  
• Damien Saez
  Damien Saez
  - Early life :Damien Saez was born in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Savoie, on 1 August 1977, where he lived until the age of 3–4 years before his family moved to Marseille...
  
  
• Cindy Sander
  Cindy Sander
  -Biography:She has been married to Sébastien Braun since 1998 and is the mother of Enzo, born on 26 May 2006.According to the singer, she tried to participate in the 2001 Eurovision with her unreleased track Mensonges, and again in 2006 with another song....
  
  
• Bernard Sauvat
  Bernard Sauvat
  Bernard Sauvat is a French singer and songwriter.- Biography :A Math teacher who taught Physics, Sauvat was discovered in 1970 by Lucien Morisse, Director of Europe 1....
  
  
• Henri Salvador
  Henri Salvador
  Henri Salvador was a French Caribbean singer.-Biography:Salvador was born in Cayenne, French Guiana. His father, Clovis, and his mother, Antonine Paterne, daughter of a native Indian from the Caribbean, were both from Guadeloupe, French West Indies...
  
  
• Véronique Sanson
  Véronique Sanson
  Véronique Sanson is a two-time Victoires de la Musique Award-winning French singer-songwriter, musician, and producer with an avid following in her native country.She brings a very personal vocal style to the singing of French pop songs: Her voice has a very strong vibrato.Unlike...
  
  
• Sapho
  Sapho (singer)
  Sapho is a French singer of Moroccan-Jewish descent. Her real name is Danielle Ebguy.-Biography:Born in Marrakech , Sapho emigrated to France when she was 16. By 18, she was living on her own in Paris, taking acting lessons, playing guitar and singing on the streets...
  
  
• Michel Sardou
  Michel Sardou
  Michel Sardou is a French singer.He was born in Paris, the son of Fernand Sardou and Jackie Rollin . Contrary to claims common towards the beginning of his career, he is not the grandson of the dramatist Victorien Sardou...
  
  
• Vivien Savage
  Vivien Savage
  Vivien Savage is a French singer-songwriter who reached popularity in the 1980s. He remains famous for its 1986 single "La P'tite Lady", which was a top twenty hit on the SNEP singles chart. His other singles were unsuccessful, failing the chart and therefore Savage can be considered as one-hit...
  
  
• Hélène Ségara
  Hélène Ségara
  Hélène Ségara is a French female singer revealed in her interpretation of Esmeralda in the french musical Notre Dame de Paris.-Her childhood in the French Riviera:...
  
  
• Véro Ségo
• Marie-Amélie Seignier
• Elie Semoun (comic performer & singer)
• Séverine
  Severine
  Severine or Séverine can refer to:* the nom de plume of the French journalist Caroline Rémy de Guebhard* a pseudonym of the Hungarian model Eve Angel...
  
  
• Dato Shake
• Sheila
  Sheila (singer)
  Sheila is a French pop singer, who became successful as a solo artist in the 1960s and 1970s and later fronted a disco act called Sheila and B. Devotion. Sheila has sold over 24,000,000 copies of records in France and was the top selling artist in France in the 1960s and 1970s...
  
  
• William Sheller
  William Sheller
  William Sheller is a French classical composer and singer.-Biography:William Sheller was born William Hand in Paris.He left school at 16 to study composition with teacher Yves Margat and later harmony, fugue and counterpoint at the Paris conservatoire. He turned to pop music after hearing the...
  
  
• Kool Shen
  Kool Shen
  Bruno Lopes, alias Kool Shen is a French rapper, with Portuguese origins. He is also a break dancer and a graffiti artist. He is a co-founder of Suprême NTM and one of the major figures of French rap. He featured on Enhancer's album "Electrochoc" in the song "Hot"...
  
   (band : NTM
  Suprême NTM
  Suprême NTM is a French hip hop group formed in 1989 in the Seine-Saint-Denis département. The group comprises rappers Joey Starr and Kool Shen...
  
  )
• Laetitia Shériff
• Shona
  Shona (singer)
  Shona is a French writer, composer and singer who peaked in popularity in the late 1980s.-Biography:In 1985, she released a first single entitled "Panthère noire", but it passed unnoticed. Three years later, she experienced success with the first single from the album Complètement mec, "Élodie mon...
  
  
• Shurik'n
  Shurik'n
  Shurik'n Chang-Ti is a French hip hop artist from Marseille, born in 1966. He is one of the members of the highly successful group IAM, as well as a major solo artist. With his brother Faf Larage , he also is a member of the group La Garde.Mussard was born in Marseille on 11 March 1966, with...
  
   (band : IAM
  IAM (band)
  IAM is a French hip hop band from Marseille, created in 1989, and composed of Akhenaton , Shurik'n , Khéops , Imhotep , and Kephren . 'IAM' has several meanings, including 'Invasion Arrivée de Mars'...
  
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• Emilie Simon
  Émilie Simon
  Émilie Simon is a French singer and composer of electronic music.-Émilie Simon:In May 2003, she released her debut album Émilie Simon. The electronic album was critically acclaimed and went on to become a commercial success. To promote her album, she did numerous live performances and TV...
  
  
• Yves Simon
  Yves Simon (singer)
  Yves Simon is a French singer and writer.-Biography:Simon was born in Choiseul, France, in 1944. He has published over 30 books and released about twenty albums....
  
  
• Sinclair
• Nicola Sirkis
  Nicola Sirkis
  Nicola Sirkis Nicola Sirkis Nicola Sirkis (born 22 June 1959 in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, is the frontman and singer of the French rock band Indochine. He is the only remaining member of the original line-up of the band which he formed in 1981 with a friend, Dominique Nicolas, soon to be joined by...
  
   (band : Indochine
  Indochine (band)
  Indochine is a French new wave/rock band, formed in 1981. The band was very successful in France in the 1980s, as well as other parts of continental Europe and Latin America, with songs like L'Aventurier and Canary Bay...
  
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• MC Solaar
  MC Solaar
  MC Solaar is a francophone hip hop and rap artist. He is one of the most internationally popular and influential French rappers....
  
   (born in Senegal
  Senegal
  Senegal , officially the Republic of Senegal , is a country in western Africa. It owes its name to the Sénégal River that borders it to the east and north...
  
  , with a singing career in France)
• Jérôme Soligny
• Mano Solo
  Mano Solo
  Mano Solo , born Emmanuel Cabut, was a French singer. He was born in Châlons-sur-Marne on 24 April 1963 to the illustrator Cabu and Isabelle Monin, co-founder of the ecology-related magazine, La Gueule ouverte....
  
  
• Alain Souchon
  Alain Souchon
  Alain Souchon is a French singer, songwriter and actor. He has released 15 albums and has played roles in seven films.-Profile:...
  
  
• Gérard Souzay
  Gérard Souzay
  Gérard Souzay was a French baritone singer, regarded as one of the very finest interpreters of mélodie in the generation after Charles Panzéra and Pierre Bernac.-Background and education:...
  
  
• Specta (band : Saïan supa crew
  Saïan Supa Crew
  Saïan Supa Crew is a French rap collective composed of three groups: Explicit Samouraï, OFX and Simple Spirit. The name 'Saïan Supa' is a reference to the Super Saiyan from the manga and anime Dragon Ball Z/GT....
  
  )
• Stanislas
• Stella
• Didier Super
• Anne Sylvestre
• Emilie Simon
  Émilie Simon
  Émilie Simon is a French singer and composer of electronic music.-Émilie Simon:In May 2003, she released her debut album Émilie Simon. The electronic album was critically acclaimed and went on to become a commercial success. To promote her album, she did numerous live performances and TV...
  
  

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• Jacqueline Taïeb
  Jacqueline Taïeb
  Jacqueline Taïeb is a French singer and songwriter, of Tunisian descent, who achieved her greatest success as a pop and yé-yé singer in France in the 1960s....
  
  
• Sébastien Tellier
  Sébastien Tellier
  Sébastien Tellier is a French singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He is currently signed to Record Makers, a French independent record label. He sings in English, French and Italian.-Biography:...
  
  
• Allan Théo
  Allan Théo
  Allan Théo is a French singer. He remained particularly known for his 1998 single "Emmène-moi", which peaked at number six.-Albums:* 2002 : Soupir – #40 in France, #19 in Belgium...
  
  
• Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine
  Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine
  Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine is a French pop-rock singer and songwriter, born 21 July 1948 in the town of Dole in the Jura département.Mostly shunned by television and radio, he has built over the years – through word of mouth and frequent touring – a considerable following which allowed him to fill the...
  
  
• Yann Tiersen
  Yann Tiersen
  Yann Tiersen is a musician from France. His musical career is split between studio albums, collaborations and film soundtracks with a distinctive sound that is always involved...
  
  
• Michèle Torr
• Charles Trénet
  Charles Trenet
  Charles Trenet was a French singer and songwriter, most famous for his recordings from the late 1930s until the mid-1950s, though his career continued through the 1990s...
  
  
• Tunisiano (El) (band : Sniper
  Sniper (group)
  Sniper is a French hip hop Band from the Val-d'Oise department. The group consists of Tunisiano , Aketo , and Blacko, formerly Black Renega .- Biography :...
  
  )
• Taliani (born in Algeria)

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• François Valéry
  François Valéry
  François Valéry is a French singer-songwriter and composer.-Biography:...
  
  
• Sylvain Vanot
• Sylvie Vartan
  Sylvie Vartan
  Sylvie Vartan is a French singer. She was one of the first rock girls in France. Vartan was the most productive and active of the yé-yé style artists, considered as the toughest-sounding of those. Her performance often featured elaborate show-dance choreography. She made many appearances on French...
  
  
• Cora Vaucaire
• Vegastar
  Vegastar
  Vegastar is a French Alternative rock band from Orléans which formed in 2003.Its members comprise mostly from former members of the French group Human Beat Box. Franklin is on vocals, Fabien and Jey on guitar, Vincent on bass and Jocelyn on drums...
  
  
• Patrick Verbeke
  Patrick Verbeke
  Patrick Verbeke is a French blues guitarist, composer and singer born in 1949 in Calvados.-Biography:Patrick Verbeke has spent the past thirty-some-odd years helping to popularize the blues in France, through educational presentations at schools , a...
  
  
• Louise Vertigo
• Boris Vian
  Boris Vian
  Boris Vian was a French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their...
  
  
• Vicelow (band : Saïan supa crew
  Saïan Supa Crew
  Saïan Supa Crew is a French rap collective composed of three groups: Explicit Samouraï, OFX and Simple Spirit. The name 'Saïan Supa' is a reference to the Super Saiyan from the manga and anime Dragon Ball Z/GT....
  
  )
• Hervé Vilard
• Laurent Voulzy
  Laurent Voulzy
  Laurent Voulzy is a French singer and composer.-Biography:Voulzy originally led the English-pop-influenced Le Temple de Vénus before joining Pascal Danel as guitarist from 1969 to 1974...
  
  

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• Jean Yanne
  Jean Yanne
  Jean Yanne is the artist name of Jean Gouyé, born the 18 July 1933 in Les Lilas who died the 23 May 2003 in Morsains...
  
  
• Michael Youn
  Michaël Youn
  Michaël Youn is a French actor, singer, comedian, and TV and radio personality.- Biography :...
  
   (comic performer & singer / band : Fatal Bazooka
  Fatal Bazooka
  Fatal Bazooka is a French spoof rap group consisting of Michaël Youn, Vincent Desagnat and Benjamin Morgaine. The act originated in a 2002 radio show which its members hosted at the time....
  
  )
• Tiny Young
• Yelle
  Yelle
  Yelle is a French band founded by lead singer and namesake, Yelle and GrandMarnier . A third member, Tepr , joined the band before the recording of their debut album. Budet and GrandMarnier began working on music together in 2000...
  
  

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• Zaho
  Zaho
  Zehira known by her artistic name Zaho is an Algerian R&B singer living in Montréal, Canada.-Biography:...
  
   (born in Algeria)
• Zaz
  Zaz (singer)
  Isabelle Geffroy , better known by the nickname Zaz, is a French singer mixing jazzy styles, French variety, soul and acoustic. She is famous for her hit "Je veux", from her first album, Zaz, released on 10 May 2010....
  
  
• Zazie
  Zazie
  Zazie is a French singer and songwriter. Zazie co-produces all her albums.-Early life:...
  
  
• Julie Zenatti
  Julie Zenatti
  Julie Zenatti, born 5 February 1981, is a French singer celebrity. She first played the role of Fleur-de-Lys and later Esmeralda on stage for the musical Notre-Dame de Paris. Zenatti was involved with Notre-Dame de Paris co-star Patrick Fiori from 2002–2006 and the pair were engaged for 2 years...
  
  
• Zouzou (born in Algeria
  Algeria
  Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...
  
  , with a singing career in France)