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Brigitte Fontaine

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Brigitte Fontaine, (born June 24, 1939) in Morlaix in the Brittany region of France, is a singer of avant-garde music. [1]

77 relations: Alain Bashung, Anaïs (singer), Angoulême International Comics Festival, Antoine Duhamel, Archie Shepp, Areski Belkacem, Arno, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Arthur H, Avant-garde, Étienne Daho, Badly Drawn Boy, Barbara (singer), Barbican Centre, Bataclan (theatre), Benoît Mouchart, Björk, Bobino, Brittany, Chanson, Christophe (singer), Comme à la radio, Des Visages des Figures, Electronica, Enki Bilal, Finistère, Folk music, French corazon, French-speaking Quebecer, Genre humain, Georges Brassens, Gotan Project, Grace Jones, Groupe Flammarion, Histoire de Melody Nelson, Ivor Guest, 4th Viscount Wimborne, J'ai l'honneur d'être, Jacno, Jacques Higelin, Jarvis Cocker, Jazz, Jean Genet, Jean-Claude Vannier, Kabyle people, Kékéland, L'Incendie, L'un n'empêche pas l'autre, Les Palaces, Libido (Brigitte Fontaine album), Massive Attack, ..., Matthieu Chedid, Michel Colombier, Morlaix, Noir Désir, Olivia Ruiz, Olympia (Paris), Philippe Katerine, Pierre Lapointe, Pont des Arts, Printemps de Bourges, Prohibition (album), Rock and roll, Rue Saint Louis en l'Île, Rufus (actor), Seine, Serge Gainsbourg, Singing, Sonic Youth, Spoken word, Stereolab, Sufism, Teresa of Ávila, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier, Vous et Nous, World music, Zebda. Expand index (27 more) »

Alain Bashung

Alain Bashung (born Alain Baschung 1 December 1947 – 14 March 2009) was a French singer, songwriter and actor.

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Anaïs (singer)

Régine Hantelle better known by her stage name Anaïs (born 1 March 1965 in Paris, France) is a French singer.

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Angoulême International Comics Festival

The Angoulême International Comics Festival (Festival international de la bande dessinée d'Angoulême) is the second largest comics festival in Europe after the Lucca Comics & Games in Italy, and the third biggest in the world after Lucca Comics & Games and the Comiket of Japan.

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Antoine Duhamel

Antoine Duhamel (30 July 1925 – 11 September 2014) was a French composer, orchestra conductor and music teacher.

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Archie Shepp

Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Areski Belkacem

Areski Belkacem (born 23 January 1940), also known simply as Areski, is a French singer, multi-instrumentalist, comedian and composer.

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Arno

The Arno is a river in the Tuscany region of Italy.

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Art Ensemble of Chicago

The Art Ensemble of Chicago is an avant-garde jazz group that grew out of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in the late 1960s.

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Arthur H

Arthur Higelin (27 March 1966), better known under his stage name Arthur H, is a pianist, songwriter and singer.

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Avant-garde

The avant-garde (from French, "advance guard" or "vanguard", literally "fore-guard") are people or works that are experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.

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Étienne Daho

Étienne Daho (born January 14, 1956 in Oran, French Algeria) is a French singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Badly Drawn Boy

Damon Michael Gough (born 2 October 1969, in Dunstable, Bedfordshire), known by the stage name Badly Drawn Boy, is an English indie singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

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Barbara (singer)

Monique Andrée Serf (June 9, 1930 – November 24, 1997), whose stage name was Barbara, was a French singer.

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Barbican Centre

The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the Barbican Estate of the City of London and the largest of its kind in Europe.

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Bataclan (theatre)

The Bataclan is a theatre located at 50 Boulevard Voltaire in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, France.

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Benoît Mouchart

Benoît Mouchart (born 1976 in Versailles) is a French writer and curator.

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Björk

Björk Guðmundsdóttir (born 21 November 1965) is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, actress, record producer, and DJ.

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Bobino

Bobino at 20 rue de la Gaîté, in the Montparnasse area of Paris (14th arrondissement), France, is a music hall theatre that has seen most of the biggest names of 20th century French music perform there.

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Brittany

Brittany (Bretagne; Breizh, pronounced or; Gallo: Bertaèyn, pronounced) is a cultural region in the northwest of France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation.

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Chanson

A chanson ("song", from Latin cantio, gen. cantionis) is in general any lyric-driven French song, usually polyphonic and secular.

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Christophe (singer)

Daniel Bevilacqua, better known by the stage name Christophe, is a French singer and songwriter.

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Comme à la radio

Comme à la radio is the fourth album by experimental French singer Brigitte Fontaine, recorded with Areski Belkacem (in their first collaboration) and the Art Ensemble of Chicago.

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Des Visages des Figures

des Visages des Figures is an album by French rock band Noir Désir.

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Electronica

Electronica encompasses a broad group of electronic-based styles such as techno, house, ambient, jungle and other electronic music styles intended not just for dancing.

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Enki Bilal

Enki Bilal (born October 7, 1951) is a French comic book creator, comics artist and film director.

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Finistère

Finistère (Penn-ar-Bed) is a department of France in the extreme west of Brittany.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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French corazon

French corazon is the eleventh album by experimental French singer Brigitte Fontaine, released in 1988 on the EMI label.

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French-speaking Quebecer

French-speaking Quebecers or Quebeckers (Québécois) are francophone residents of the province of Quebec in Canada.

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Genre humain

Genre humain is the twelfth album by experimental French singer Brigitte Fontaine, released in 1995 on the Virgin Records label.

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Georges Brassens

Georges Brassens (22 October 1921 – 29 October 1981) was a French singer-songwriter and poet.

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Gotan Project

Gotan Project is a musical group based in Paris (France), consisting of musicians Eduardo Makaroff (Argentine), Philippe Cohen Solal (French) and Christoph H. Müller (Swiss), a former member of Touch El Arab.

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Grace Jones

Grace Beverly Jones (born 19 May 1948) is a Jamaican-American singer, songwriter, supermodel, record producer, and actress.

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Groupe Flammarion

Groupe Flammarion is the fourth-largest publishing group in France, comprising many units, including its namesake, founded in 1876 by Ernest Flammarion, as well as units in distribution, sales, printing and bookshops (La Hune and Flammarion Center).

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Histoire de Melody Nelson

Histoire de Melody Nelson is a 1971 concept album by French songwriter Serge Gainsbourg.

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Ivor Guest, 4th Viscount Wimborne

Ivor Mervyn Vigors Guest, 4th Viscount Wimborne (born 19 September 1968) is a British record producer and Emmy Award nominated composer.

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J'ai l'honneur d'être

J'ai l'honneur d'être is the nineteenth album by experimental French singer Brigitte Fontaine, released in 2013 on the Universal Music Group label.

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Jacno

Jacno (3 July 1957 in Paris – 6 November 2009) was a French musician.

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Jacques Higelin

Jacques Joseph Victor Higelin (18 October 1940 – 6 April 2018) was a French pop singer who rose to prominence in the early 1970s.

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Jarvis Cocker

Jarvis Branson Cocker (born 19 September 1963) is an English musician, actor and presenter.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jean Genet

Jean Genet (–) was a French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist.

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Jean-Claude Vannier

Jean-Claude Vannier (born 1943) is a French musician, composer and arranger.

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Kabyle people

The Kabyle people (Kabyle: Iqbayliyen) are a Berber ethnic group indigenous to Kabylia in the north of Algeria, spread across the Atlas Mountains, one hundred miles east of Algiers.

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Kékéland

Kékéland is the fourteenth album by experimental French singer Brigitte Fontaine, released in 2001 on the Virgin Records label.

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L'Incendie

L'Incendie is the seventh album by experimental French singer Brigitte Fontaine and the fifth by Areski Belkacem, released in 1974 on the Byg Records label.

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L'un n'empêche pas l'autre

L'un n'empêche pas l'autre is the eighteenth album by experimental French singer Brigitte Fontaine, released in 2011 on the Polydor label.

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Les Palaces

Les Palaces is the thirteenth album by experimental French singer Brigitte Fontaine, released in 1997 on the Virgin Records label.

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Libido (Brigitte Fontaine album)

Libido is the sixteenth album by experimental French singer Brigitte Fontaine, released in 2006 on the Polydor label.

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Massive Attack

Massive Attack are a British musical group formed in 1988 in Bristol, consisting of Robert "3D" Del Naja, Grant "Daddy G" Marshall and formerly Andy "Mushroom" Vowles ("Mush").

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Matthieu Chedid

Matthieu Chedid (born 21 December 1971), better known by his stage name -M-, is a French rock singer-songwriter and guitar player.

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Michel Colombier

Michel Colombier (May 23, 1939 – November 14, 2004) was a French composer, arranger, and conductor.

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Morlaix

Morlaix (Montroulez) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in northwestern France.

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Noir Désir

Noir Désir were a French rock band from Bordeaux.

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Olivia Ruiz

Olivia Blanc (born 1 January 1980), known as Olivia Ruiz, is a female French pop singer of partial Spanish descent belonging to the nouvelle chanson genre.

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Olympia (Paris)

Olympia (commonly known as L'Olympia, Olympia Hall or Paris Olympia) is a music hall located in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France.

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Philippe Katerine

Philippe Katerine (born Philippe Blanchard; 8 December 1968), also known as just Katerine, is a French singer, actor and filmmaker who began his career in 1991.

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Pierre Lapointe

Pierre Lapointe (born May 23, 1981) is a Canadian singer-songwriter.

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Pont des Arts

The Pont des Arts or Passerelle des Arts is a pedestrian bridge in Paris which crosses the River Seine.

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Printemps de Bourges

Le Printemps de Bourges is an annual music festival that is held in Bourges, France, over the course of five days.

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Prohibition (album)

Prohibition is the seventeenth album by experimental French singer Brigitte Fontaine, released in 2009 on the Polydor label.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock 'n' roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950sJim Dawson and Steve Propes, What Was the First Rock'n'Roll Record (1992),.

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Rue Saint Louis en l'Île

Rue Saint Louis en l'Île is the fifteenth album by experimental French singer Brigitte Fontaine, released in 2004 on the Virgin Records label.

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Rufus (actor)

Rufus (born 19 December 1942) or Zio Vittorio is the stage name of Italian-French actor Jacques Narcy.

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Seine

The Seine (La Seine) is a river and an important commercial waterway within the Paris Basin in the north of France.

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Serge Gainsbourg

Serge Gainsbourg (born Lucien Ginsburg;; 2 April 1928 – 2 March 1991) was a French singer, songwriter, pianist, film composer, poet, painter, screenwriter, writer, actor, and director.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth was an American rock band based in New York City, formed in 1981.

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Spoken word

Spoken word is a performance art that is word based.

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Stereolab

Stereolab were an English-French avant-pop band from London, formed in 1990 by Tim Gane (guitar/keyboards) and Lætitia Sadier (vocals/keyboards/guitar) who both remained at the songwriting helm across many line-up changes.

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Sufism

Sufism, or Taṣawwuf (personal noun: ṣūfiyy / ṣūfī, mutaṣawwuf), variously defined as "Islamic mysticism",Martin Lings, What is Sufism? (Lahore: Suhail Academy, 2005; first imp. 1983, second imp. 1999), p.15 "the inward dimension of Islam" or "the phenomenon of mysticism within Islam",Massington, L., Radtke, B., Chittick, W. C., Jong, F. de, Lewisohn, L., Zarcone, Th., Ernst, C, Aubin, Françoise and J.O. Hunwick, “Taṣawwuf”, in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition, edited by: P. Bearman, Th.

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Teresa of Ávila

Saint Teresa of Ávila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada (28 March 15154 October 1582), was a prominent Spanish mystic, Roman Catholic saint, Carmelite nun and author during the Counter Reformation, and theologian of contemplative life through mental prayer.

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Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées is a theatre at 15 avenue Montaigne in Paris.

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Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier

The Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier is a theatre located at 21, rue du Vieux-Colombier, in the 6th arrondissement of Paris.

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Vous et Nous

Vous et Nous is the ninth album by experimental pop French musician Brigitte Fontaine and the seventh by Areski Belkacem, released in 1977 on the Saravah label.

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World music

World music (also called global music or international music) is a musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the globe, which includes many genres including some forms of Western music represented by folk music, as well as selected forms of ethnic music, indigenous music, neotraditional music, and music where more than one cultural tradition, such as ethnic music and Western popular music, intermingle.

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Zebda

Zebda is a French music group from Toulouse (France) known for its political activism and its wide variety of musical styles.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Fontaine

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