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Encyclopedia > List of Francophone male singers

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Belgium

Jacques Brel (April 8, 1929 – October 9, 1978) was a Belgian French-speaking author-composer, considered by many a poet as well, for the strong power of expression in his lyrics. ...

France

A

Dominique Ané (born October 6, 1968), better known as Dominique A, is a French songwriter and singer. ... Jean-Louis Aubert (born April 12, 1955) is a French guitarist, singer and songwriter. ... Charles Aznavour. ...

B

Pierre Bachelet (May 25, 1944 - February 15, 2005) was a French singer-songwriter with a gentle romantic voice. ... Daniel Balavoine (born February 5, 1952 in Alençon - died January 14, 1986) is a French singer and songwriter. ... Alain Bashung (born December 1, 1947 is a French singer, songwriter and actor. ... Bénabar (b. ... Louis Bertignac (born in 1955) is a French guitarist, vocalist and songwriter. ... Benjamin Biolay is a French singer, songwriter, musician and record producer. ... Georges Brassens (October 22, 1921 - October 29, 1981) was a French singer and songwriter. ... Patrick Bruel (born Patrick Benguigui, on May 14, 1959 in Tlemcen, Algeria) is a French singer, actor, and professional poker player. ...

C

Francis Cabrel (born 23 November 1953 in Agen) is a French singer-songwriter and guitarist. ... Bertrand Cantat (born in Pau, France, March 5th 1964) is a French singer and songwriter. ... Alain Chamfort (born March 2, 1949) is a French singer. ... Matthieu Chédid, is a french jazz singer/songwriter. ... Matthieu Chédid, is a french jazz singer/songwriter. ...

D

Étienne Daho (born January 14, 1956 in Oran) is a French singer. ... Joe Dassin (November 5, 1938 - August 20, 1980) was a French speaking American musician. ... Vincent Delerm (born August 31, 1976) is a French singer-songwriter and composer. ... Jacques Dutronc (b. ...

F

Léo Ferré (August 24, 1916 - July 14, 1993) was a poet and a musician. ... Claude François Claude François (born February 1, 1939 in Ismaïlia, Egypt; died March 11, 1978 in Paris, France) was a French pop singer. ... Michel Fugain (born May 12, 1942 in Grenoble) is a french singer and composer. ...

G

Serge Gainsbourg Serge Gainsbourg, born Lucien Ginzburg, (April 2, 1928 – March 2, 1991) was a poet, singer-songwriter, actor and director. ... Jean-Jacques Goldman Jean-Jacques Goldman (born October 11, 1951) is a French singer and songwriter. ...

H

Arthur Higelin, better known under his screen name Arthur H, is a French musician born in 1966. ... Johnny Hallyday Johnny Hallyday (born June 15, 1943) is a French singer and actor. ... Jacques Higelin is born in 1940. ... Jann Halexander is a french singer The singer Jann Halexander was born in 1982 in Libreville (Gabon). ...

J

  • Michel Jonasz
  • Georges-Alain Jones

L

  • Serge Lama
  • Philippe Lavil
  • Bernard Lavilliers
  • Marc Lavoine
  • Maxime Le Forestier
  • Gérard Lenorman
  • Herbert Léonard

Bernard Lavilliers (born October 7, 1946) is a French singer. ...

M

Luis Mariano was a famous French operetta singer, actor and TV Performer. ... MC Solaar is the stage name of francophone hip hop artist Claude MBarali (born March 5, 1969). ... Michel Armengot (born 1962), more commonly known as Art Mengo, is a French singer and songwriter. ... Miro may refer to: A conifer tree endemic to New Zealand. ... Eddy Mitchell, 2003 Eddy Mitchell (born Claude Moine July 3, 1942, Paris) is a French singer and actor. ... Yves Montand Yves Montand (October 13, 1921 – November 9, 1991) was a French/Italian actor, born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Alto, Italy. ...

N

Claude Nougaro (September 9, 1929 Paris – March 4, 2004 Toulouse) was a French songwriter and singer. ...

O

  • Pascal Obispo

P

Florent Pagny (Chalon-sur-Saône, november 6, 1961) Florent Pagny is a succesful French song writer. ... Pierre Perret (born July 9, 1934 in Castelsarrasin), is a French singer and composer Biography He spent a long part of his childhood in the café which his parents owned, where he learned work jargon and slang. ... MICHEL POLNAREF born in France on July 3 1944 is a great modern ballad singer . ...

R

Renaud Séchan, known as Renaud, (born in Paris on May 11, 1952) is a popular French singer. ... Tino Rossi (April 29, 1907 – September 26, 1983) was a singer and film actor. ...

S

Henri Salvador (born July 18, 1917, Cayenne, French Guiana) is a French singer. ... Michel Sardou (born January 26, 1947) is a French singer. ... Alain Souchon is a French singer and songwriter. ...

T

Charles Trenet (May 18, 1913, Narbonne, France – February 19, 2001, Créteil, France) was a French singer and songwriter. ...

V

  • François Valéry
  • Joan-Pau Verdier
  • Laurent Voulzy

Québec - Canada

B

Robert Charlebois (born June 25, 1944) is a Canadian author, composer, musician, performer and actor. ...

C

  • Nicola Ciccone

D

  • Marc Déry

G

Garou can mean many things. ...

L

Daniel Lavoie, (born March 17, 1949) is a French-Canadian singer and songwriter. ... 1999 Canada Post stamp Félix Leclerc (August 2, 1914-August 8, 1988) was a Quebecois folk singer, poet, writer, actor and political activist. ... Les Colocs were a major musical band of the Quebec music scene of the 1990s. ...

P

  • Mario Pelchat
  • Bruno Pelletier

S

  • Richard Séguin

V

Gilles Vigneault (born 27 October 1928) is a poet, publisher and singer-songwriter from Quebec, and well-known Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist. ... Joseph Armand Roch Voisine (born March 26, 1963) is an Acadian-Quebecois singer-songwriter, actor, radio and TV host. ...

Switzerland

Stephan Eicher is a Swiss-born French variety singer. ...

See also


  Results from FactBites:
 
Minority Francophone Youths in Canada: (8832 words)
The remaining 980,300 francophones (14.5 percent) constitute ‘francophone communities’ and live as minorities in the other provinces of Canada where they are subjected, to varying degrees, to the hegemonic influences of English-language popular culture and media.
Indeed, what is significant about organizers’ articulation of francophone discourses at the AFG is that while they produced contested definitions of francophoneness that shifted between linguistic and cultural truths, the predominance of their own francophone identities was never in doubt or at risk.
Nonetheless, Ontario francophones are not dispersed evenly: there are longstanding and well established concentrations of francophones, the most important of which are in the north and east of the province.
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