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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: 2:49
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: 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: 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: 3:40
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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Difficulty:
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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Difficulty:
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: 2:48
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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Length: 3:36
Accent: French
Charles-Baptiste returns to us with a new existential song: “Je Sais,” or how he moved on to a new stage in life.
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Length: 2:27
Accent: French
Men, women, love: Charles-Baptiste tells us what’s special (and what’s universal) about his love life in New York, and lets us in on the secret to his success. You have to get your hands dirty!
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Difficulty:
Length: 4:03
Accent: French
DJ Gilb’R and I:Cube, a unique duo, are the key ingredients of Château Flight. Their innovative electro-fusion beat, with hints of everything from pop to soul, is demonstrated on their album, The Meal.
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Difficulty:
Length: 4:11
Accent: French Canadian
After finding early success in his native Rwanda in ’93, Corneille was forced to flee his country. “Comme un fils” (“Like a Son”) is representative of his soul roots and affinity for emotional melodies.
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Difficulty:
Length: 2:41
Accent: French
Grab your bottle of rum, your peg-leg, and your black flag and sail the seas with Cré Tonnerre. Cha Cha Cha!
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Difficulty:
Length: 3:46
Accent: French
Dahlia formed in 1999 in the province of Brittany in northwest France as a collaboration between guitarist Guillaume Fresneau and cellist Armel Talarmain.
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