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The music of French folk troubadour Hugues Aufray existed in stark opposition towards the prevailing yé-yé sound that dominated pop charts in the middle-’60s. A disciple of Bob Dylan who frequently modified his hero’s tunes into French, Aufray however proved a favorite favorite whose personal compositions, especially “Santiano” and “Celine,” …

Blessed into an artistic family members in Alghero, Sardinia, an isle from the Mediterranean coastline of Italy, Franca Masu understood from an early on age group that she was designed to sing. In the middle-’90s she fulfilled several fellow Sardi jazz music artists, with whom she performed, exercising her chops …

Count number Marie-Élaine Thibert among the myriad youthful performers launched to popularity via the truth TV trend of the first 21st century. Given birth to in Montreal on Apr 18, 1982, Thibert analyzed vocal music and violin at l’École Pierre-Laporte de Montréal before getting into the 2003 debut time of …

Quebecois singer/songwriter Nicola Ciccone shown a talent and affinity for composing music early in lifestyle. He began composing at age 12; his initial compositions had been English-language songs, nonetheless it was his French materials that obtained him recognition, beginning in his past due teenage years. In 1998, at age group …

French bandleader Ray Ventura offers rightly been weighed against England’s Jack port Hylton; through the 1920s and ’30s both guys been successful in popularizing jazz and U.S. dance music within their particular countries by purveying available foxtrots sprinkled with true jazz solos and peppered with pop and novelty vocals. Younger …

Yves Duteil was created in 1949, and was raised inside a Paris suburb. After many years of piano and body organ, Duteil turned to acoustic guitar at age group 15. After searching for University, Duteil fallen out and focused on music, their studies at the Petit Conservatoire. Although he documented …

Though located in Germany, acoustic jazz quartet Quadro Nuevo dedicated its innovative energies to resurrecting the fading musical customs of Europe all together, specifically embracing the tango. Guitarist Robert Wolf, reedist Mulo Francel, accordionist Andreas Hinterseher, and bassist D.D. Lowka co-founded Quadro Nuevo in Salzburg in 1996. Originally commissioned to …

Given birth to in Margherita di Savoia, Italy on Sept 19, 1959, Raffaele Riefoli entered the music business in 1983, when his debut recording, Self Control, premiered beneath the name of Raf. The recording proved successful around the Italian graphs, with two singles — “Switch YOUR BRAIN” and “Hard” — …

Although French electronica continues to be inarguably cool because the rise of Atmosphere in the middle-’90s, Poni Hoax tend the initial band to fuse the sophistication of Gallic dance beats with solid rock & roll attitude (imagine if the Strokes really were as great and debonair because they pretend to …

b. 2 March 1970, Paris, France. Lourau started playing the saxophone at age 11. He was shortly exploiting his quickly discovered skills playing rock and roll ‘n’ move before shifting towards jazz. When he was 15 he was playing jazz rock and roll fusion. Specifically, he was influenced by the …