![]() Like most of her work since, the sound was kept intimate and largely acoustic. – Brett Milanoĭespite never having broken out of his native country, the most beloved of French singers, Johnny Hallyday, retains his reputation as being the Elvis Presley of France and putting his own Gallic stamp of hip-gyrating rock’n’roll for decades.Ĭarla Bruni was already a world-famous model, but not yet the First Lady of France, when she made her French singing debut with 2003’s, “Quelqu’un m’a dit.” And it wasn’t just her celebrity that made the album a runaway hit: Writing most of the songs herself, she proved a successor to the best of 60s French pop, even drawing the one cover from Serge Gainsbourg. The oft-recorded “You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me” was one of the sweetest signature tunes for one of the most iconic French singers. He was admired by the leading film and Broadway composers, and got to introduce songs by Rogers and Hart, Gershwin, and Berlin. There was far more to Chevalier’s career than the borderline-camp song he’s best remembered for, “Thank Heaven for Little Girls.” In a career that spanned 60 years including both world wars, Chevalier was the embodiment of the suave French leading man, making films with everyone from Sinatra to Jayne Mansfield to the Marx Brothers. ![]()
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