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Length: 3:48
Accent: French
Saxophonist Alex Terrier talks about how he came to be a jazz musician and shares some photos. Come take a glimpse inside the life of this gifted artist.
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Length: 3:12
Accent: French
Alex Terrier’s second project as a bandleader, “Roundtrip,” is a critically-acclaimed album in the vein of John Coltrane. Listen to it in full—and for free!—here.
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Length: 2:39
Accent: French
In this video brought to us by Allons en France, a French government program that encourages students to learn the language and culture of France, young people from all over the world tell us about what learning French means to them.
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Length: 2:49
Accent: French
German metal band Rammstein has no shortage of fans. Listen to devotees describe just what it is that makes the band compelling enough to sell out ten thousand tickets in just two days.
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Length: 5:00
Accent: French
Arlette Grosskost, UMP (Union for a Popular Movement) representative and member of the Parliamentary task force on the burqa in France, advocates a law aiming to ban the wearing of the full-body veil in public. What’s your take on this controversial issue? Is it a question of women’s rights? Of religious freedom? Are arguments against the burqa perhaps another type of veil—to cover up underlying racism?
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Length: 3:02
Accent: Senegalese
Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia are joined together by their love for music and each other. The pair met at the Institute for Young Blind People in Bamako, the capital of Mali.
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Length: 4:19
Accent: Senegalese
Amadou and Mariam share singing duties with co-producer Manu Chao on a song with themes of migration and dislocation.
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Length: 3:07
Accent: Senegalese
Amadou and Mariam reference a number of West African musical instruments, like djembes, dununs, balans, and tamas, in “Beaux Dimanches”—a song about Sundays in Bamako.
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Length: 1:34
Accent: French
How would you feel about a llama walking around in your apartment? Nathalie and François love their friend Indira, even though she sometimes steals their bags of chips.
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Length: 3:13
Accent: French Canadian
From dreams to reality, putting forth “a little bit of energy each day,” Annie Chartrand, a vocalist who debuted singing behind her bathroom door, burst onto the music scene in 2006. Here is an interview with the singer of Ma Blonde Est Une Chanteuse [My Girlfriend Is a Singer]—a group which is actually part of a love story…
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Length: 3:14
Accent: French Canadian
The lovely singer tells us in franglais about franglais. She discusses her experiences growing up bilingual in Quebec, her international travels, and why it’s not always a good idea to tell someone if you’ve ripped your pants…
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Length: 3:40
Accent: French
Babylon Circus, a ska band from Lyon, sings in this song about romantic regrets, missed cues, and lost opportunities. “J’aurais bien voulu” could well be translated as “Woulda, shoulda, coulda.”
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Length: 3:19
Accent: French
Mellow musician Bertrand Pierre sets the poignant poetry of French grand écrivain Victor Hugo to slow and soulful musical compositions. A man of many talents, Bertrand Pierre is also quite a performer live and acoustically.
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Length: 3:14
Accent: French
Remember Bertrand Pierre, the smooth crooner of “Si vous n’avez rien à me dire”? He’s back to tell us about his background as a musician, and how he stumbled across the Victor Hugo idea…
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Length: 3:20
Accent: French
Bertrand Pierre is back to tell us more about his album: Autre Chose, a tribute to the lesser-known love poems of Victor Hugo.
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Length: 3:19
Accent: French
Bertrand Pierre was inspired by Victor Hugo, and Victor Hugo was inspired by his very active love life. As it turns out, Hugo’s little love poems make for great song lyrics.
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Length: 3:53
Accent: French
Born and raised in the Pyrenees region of southern France, Cali was an aspiring rugby player before attending a U2 concert at the age of 17.
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Length: 2:12
Accent: French Canadian
Montreal is famous for hockey, but who cares about hockey when you can have chocolat? Edith Gagnon, owner of La Maison Cakao, shows us the magic behind her charmants chocolates. You may want to have a stash of your own chocolate on hand as you watch this video, because the demonstrations are likely to work up quite an appetite for something cocoa-y.
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Length: 3:00
Accent: French
Come inside this fabulous restaurant and bar in Paris’s 19th arrondissement and see what the chef is preparing and the bartender is mixing. Just don’t watch this one on an empty stomach!
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Length: 2:48
Accent: French
Unique and talented young singer-songwriter Charles Baptiste brings us “Sale Type”: a lighthearted song for the broken-hearted. Sing it from the rooftops, Charles!
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