The Gold Collection from french cabaret singer, songwriter and actress Edith Piaf, who became widely regarded as France's national chanteuse, as well as being one of greatest international stars.

This album was released on May 14, 1999. As for Je te dis vous and Dans ma chair, it was composed and produced by many famous artists in France. For example, it was produced by the French singer and songwriter Pascal Obispo, on which Kaas was accompanied by an orchestra on several tracks. Jean-Jacques Goldman again contributed to the making of the studio album, among others writing two songs : "Une Fille de l'Est" (Eng: "A Girl from the East") in which Kaas praised her East French heritage and "Quand les chansons commencent" (Goldman had already worked with Kaas for her two previous studio albums).

Artiste à la stature internationale, Nana Mouskouri a déjà plus de 50 ans de carrière derrière elle, et plus de 300 millions d'albums vendus dans le monde (dans les 10 premières ventes de tous les temps), en dix langues différentes. Une vie à parcourir le monde, riche de chansons et de rencontres : Quincy Jones, Serge Gainsbourg, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Michel Legrand . pour ne citer que les musiciens. Nana a réenregistré ses plus grands succès, accompagnée en duo par les artistes qui lui sont chers rencontrés au cours de sa carrière. Alain Delon sur « Pauvre Ruteboeuf »…

Le Trillo de Angelis Quartet présente son premier album, Origo, qui mêle habilement la musique ethnique, la chanson d'auteur et les codes du jazz. Une échappée musicale quelque part entre l'Orient et l'Occident. La chanteuse Ljuba de Angelis, issue de la scène italienne, à la voix incroyablement ductile, associée au pianiste Lionel Trillo, présentent leur premier opus intitulé Origo.

The greatest songs of Michel Fugain revisited by: Kids United, Patrick Fiori, Slimane, Olivier Dion, Damien Sargue, Victoria, Claudio Capéo, Ben L’oncle Soul, Anaïs Delva, Sophie Tapie, Arcadian, Corneille, Florent Mothe, Chimène Badi, Mickael Dos Santos. To celebrate Michel Fugain's 50-year career, the inevitable artists of the new generation celebrate an artist who has passionately sung youth, and even embodied his impetus, his madness, his vitality, his candor. Before "Chante la vie sante" was built, it was a long time since many of Michel Fugain's songs had changed from voice to voice.

The three-disc, 50-track collection 50 Plus Belles Chansons is an excellent compilation of material from throughout Alain Bashung's three decade career. It contains all the hits and some well-chosen live and album cuts. It is both an excellent introduction to the artist and a seamless listening treat for fans.

«La fiancée» est le premier album sur lequel Cécile Corbel chante la quasi-totalité des chansons en français (10 sur 12), ce qui nous démontre par là même sa qualité d'écriture et sa merveilleuse capacité à nous transporter, par ses mots et sa musique, au cœur de chaque histoire qu'elle nous raconte.

Tout Jean-Louis Murat est là, dans ce disque qui a marqué la fin d'une longue traversée du désert (ou dans son cas des volcans d'Auvergne). Après trois albums rapidement tombés dans l'oubli et un semi-succès avec le single "Suicidez- vous, le peuple est mort", Murat a disparu pendant plusieurs années pour peaufiner un grand retour. Et c'est bien de ça qu'il s'agit : un classique, l'inauguration d'un nouveau style, celui d'un chanteur de charme, à la voix chaude, qui a assimilé l'exigence littéraire de Manset, les innovations techniques de la new wave, l'élégance distante d'un Bryan Ferry, la langueur bizarre d'un Robert Wyatt et quelques influences latines.

This France-based singer became a popular actor and singer, master interpreter of his homeland's compositions. Yves Montand was an enormously popular singer in France, his adopted country, from the 1940s until his death. He also gave concerts around the world, but he was better-known internationally as an actor. Although outside France he is viewed largely as a film star, Montand occupies an important position as a post-war French popular singer. Largely because of the language barrier, his appeal as a singer was restricted largely to his own country, but there it was gigantic and continued without diminution throughout his life.

2009 collection from the acclaimed French vocalist. Patricia is the most successful French artist abroad, the proud musical descendant of Piaf, Chevalier, Montand and Co. She adopted a style perfectly suited to her warm and powerful voice. Popular at home, famous abroad, Patricia Kaas is a role model for French youth today…

Edith Piaf is almost universally regarded as France's greatest popular singer. Still revered as an icon decades after her death, "the Sparrow" served as a touchstone for virtually every chansonnier, male or female, who followed her. Her greatest strength wasn't so much her technique, or the purity of her voice, but the raw, passionate power of her singing. (Given her extraordinarily petite size, audiences marveled all the more at the force of her vocals.) Her style epitomized that of the classic French chanson: highly emotional, even melodramatic, with a wide, rapid vibrato that wrung every last drop of sentiment from a lyric…

American expatriate Joe Dassin was one of France's most popular singers during the late '60s and '70s, initially building his name with stylized adaptations of folk and country material from his birthplace. As his career blossomed, Dassin turned increasingly to traditional-style chansons penned by some of the genre's best writers, scoring an all-time classic with his 1975 smash "L'Eté Indien." Notorious for his perfectionism, Dassin could play the introverted romantic, but his persona also played off of American archetypes and imagery. His premature death of a heart attack in 1980 robbed French pop of one of its greatest modern-day practitioners.

The Best of Jane Birkin is a comprehensive overview of her sporadic, inconsistent recording career, drawing highlights from her studio albums and adding several live tracks for good measure…

Fans of French pop of the 1960s need to get this collection, no questions asked. Sylvie Vartan may not have the hipster cred that Françoise Hardy or France Gall each have, possibly because she never crossed over to the U.K. and U.S. like Hardy did or never worked with Serge Gainsbourg like Gall. She also suffers a little by having a long career that lasted through the '70s and '80s, and fell prey to many of the cheesier aspects of those decades. Irresistiblement: Sylvie Vartan 1965-1968 shows that Vartan was equal, if not superior, to any French singer of the '60s.

Il est impossible d aborder les années 60 sans penser à SYLVIE VARTAN, une des trois principales stars féminines de la chanson des années « yéyé ». Ce premier coffret contient ses 5 premiers 30cm en Paper Sleeve - CD Vinyl Replica Deluxe (dont l'album américain), totalement conformes aux 30cm vinyles originaux, avec 57 titres bonus, la totalité du répertoire présenté ici représentant l'intégralité des titres studio parus entre 1961 et 1965, dont des raretés. 119 titres remastérisés en haute définition dans une merveilleuse présentation et avec un son exceptionnel.