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Edith Piaf　

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 chansonn ..more

Serge Gainsbourg was the dirty old man of popular music; a French singer/songwriter and provocateur notorious for his voracious appetite for alcohol, cigarettes, and women, his scandalous, taboo ..more

Amalia Rodrigues　

The unrivaled queen of the Portuguese fado, singer Amalia Rodrigues was born in Lisbon’s Alfama district in 1920; one of ten children, she was abandoned by her mother at the age of one and raise ..more

Julio Iglesias　

Julio Iglesias was the most popular Latin singer of the ’70s and ’80s, selling over 100 million albums around the world. Iglesias was a smooth, romantic crooner and his appeal translated to m ..more

Dalida　

In the course of a career lasting just over 30 years, Dalida earned 45 gold record awards and a pair of platinum records for her sales in Europe, the Middle East, and Japan. A superstar in France a ..more

Nana Mouskouri　

Globally speaking, Nana Mouskouri is the biggest-selling female artist of all time. Her fluency in multiple languages -- Greek, French, English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese -- enabled her to reach ..more

Henri Salvador　

Henri Salvador enjoyed one of the longest careers of any French cabaret artist, debuting professionally in the mid-’30s and recording -- with satisfying results -- all the way into the new mille ..more

Andrea Bocelli　

Andrea Bocelli has been called the fourth tenor. A disciple of Luciano Pavarotti and Zucchero Fornaciari, the blind, Tuscany-born vocalist emerged as one of the most exciting voices in cont ..more

Fabrizio De Andre　

With the death of Fabrizio De Andre from cancer on January 11, 1999, Italy lost one of its most modern singer/songwriters. Inspired by the songwriting of Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, De ..more

Sylvie Vartan　

Although actor/pop singer Sylvie Vartan is Bulgarian, she would eventually receive recognition from the French, usually singing entirely in the language of her adopted homeland. Born August 15, ..more

Chieftains　

The original traditional Irish folk band, as far as anyone who came of age in the 1970s or ’80s is concerned, is the Chieftains. Their sound, built largely on Paddy Moloney’s pipes, is otherw ..more

Francoise Hardy　

Usually thought of as a middle-of-the-road popular singer, Francoise Hardy -- at the beginning of her career, at least -- covered more stylistic ground and owed more debts to pop/rock than she’s gi ..more

Bert Jansch　

One of the most important figures in contemporary British folk, Bert Jansch brought an unsurpassed combination of virtuosity and eclecticism to the acoustic guitar, both as a solo act and a key ..more

Gipsy Kings　

The Gipsy Kings are largely responsible for bringing the joyful sounds of progressive pop-oriented flamenco to the world. The band started out in Arles, a village in southern France, during the ’70s w ..more

Mylene Farmer　

Since 1985, Mylene Farmer (born in Quebec, but raised in France) and her musical collaborator, Laurent Boutonnat, have expanded the Birkin-Gainsbourg bedroom fantasy song into an entire co ..more

Patricia Kaas　

Chanteuse Patricia Kaas was born in France’s Lorraine region, where she began performing as a youth; by age 11, she even held a residency at the Rumpelkammer Club in Sarrebrucken, Germany, over tim ..more

Celtic Woman　

Celtic Woman is a female vocal ensemble that performs a mix of Celtic, New Age, and adult contemporary music. Often compared to such artists as Clannad, Enya, and Loreena McKennitt, Celt ..more

France Gall　

Although she’s best-known as the pretty, perky teenager who won the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest with her hit Poupee de Cire, Poupee de Son, French pop singer France Gall has had a much ..more

Pentangle　

Were Pentangle a folk group, a folk-rock group, or something that resists classification? They could hardly be called a rock ＆ roll act; they didn’t use electric instruments often, and wer ..more

Paco De Lucia　

The role of the flamenco guitar has evolved through the playing of Paco de Lucia (born Francisco Sanchez Gomez). The son of flamenco guitarist Antonio Sanchez and the brother of a {\fla ..more

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