Famous French Songs

Every song is worth a listen.

Famous french songs. From charles trenet to vanessa paradis and everything in between here are the french songs of the last 70 years you ll want to listen to over and. This famous french rock band tells the story of a woman in three periods of her life. The top 100 french songs you must hear complies a vast array of popular french music in one place for your listening convenience. French songs are full of refreshingly beautiful melodies great vocals and thought inspiring lyrics.

Top 15 famous french songs perhaps you are a huge fan of french songs or you just love listening to music. This song criticises the utopian popular vision of young adults. Whatever the case is you will find a great list of the most well known french songs in this article as well as why they have stood for such a long time. The most famous include la vie en rose l hymne à l amour which earned the top spot in a recent survey of the french s favorite love songs non je ne regrette rien la foule and mon dieu which is one of the saddest songs ever.

In 1964 after moving to france dassin signed a major recording contract with the american label cbs becoming the first singer to perform french songs under an american label. No one has made such a singular impact on the history of french popular music as the golden voiced edith piaf of all the wonderful songs in her repertoire though la vie en rose life through rose colored glasses is surely the most beloved and best remembered all around the world piaf wrote the lyrics herself and the melody was written by louis guglielmi. If at the age of 20 she wants to be dreamy and romantic she finds herself alone and sad at 30 and finishes as a prostitute and drug addict at the age 40. Mary hopkin le temps des fleurs 0 00 mireille mathieu nos souvenirs 5 08.

Don t rule them out just because you don t know french. In the 1970s dassin was a massive success his songs regularly featuring in the french charts and les champs élysées was his most famous record. Some of these songs are not french originally but in french version.