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Music of France

Index Music of France

The music of France reflects a diverse array of styles. [1]

449 relations: Academic journal, Acadians, Accordion, Achille Millien, African Americans, Air (band), Air de cour, Alain Barrière, Alain Chamfort, Alain Souchon, Alan Stivell, Albert Roussel, Alcest, Alizée, Amélie (soundtrack), Amesoeurs, Ange, Anggun, Angoumois, Anjou, Annie Cordy, Anorexia Nervosa (band), Antaeus, Antillean Creole, Aphrodite's Child, Arkhon Infaustus, Ars nova, Ars subtilior, Atoll (band), Au Bonheur des Dames (band), Aunis, Avril Lavigne, Axelle Red, Édith Piaf, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, Élodie Frégé, Émile Vacher, Étienne Daho, Étienne de Crécy, Bagad, Bagad Kemper, Bagpipes, Bal-musette, Ballad, Ballet, Barbara (singer), Barzaz Breiz, Basque Country (greater region), Basques, Baster (band), ..., Béla Bartók, Bénabar, Bérurier Noir, Beñat Achiary, Belenos (band), Benighted, Benjamin Biolay, Berry, France, Bertsolari, Biarritz, Binioù kozh, Biréli Lagrène, Bird vocalization, Blut Aus Nord, Bob Sinclar, Bombard (music), Booba, Born to Be Alive, Bourbonnais, Bourrée, Breakdancing, Bretons, Brigitte Fontaine, Brittany, Burgundian School, Cabaret, Call and response (music), Caramusa, Carmen, Carpentras, Cassius (band), Cœur de pirate, Celine Dion, Celtic music, Cerrone, Cetara, Chanson, Chantal Goya, Charles Aznavour, Charles Trenet, Châteauroux, Chemins de Terre, Chivalry, Chorus line, Christina Goh, Christophe Willem, Citroën Traction Avant, Clarinet, Classical music, Claude Balbastre, Claude Debussy, Claude François, Claude Vivier, Comedy, Compas, Computer music, Courante, Courtly love, D.I.S.C.O., Daft Punk, Dagoba (band), Dalida, Dan Ar Braz, Dance, Dance music, Daniel Darc, David Guetta, Death metal, Deathspell Omega, Dee Nasty, Diam's, Diane Tell, Dick Rivers, Didi (song), Disc jockey, Duchy of Burgundy, Dun, Eddy Mitchell, Editor-in-chief, Electro (music), Electro dance, Electronic music, Erick Benzi, Erik Satie, Eros (Dün album), Eskaton, Eths, Euro disco, F. R. David, Fairyland (band), Faudel, Félix Mayol, Fest Noz, Festival Interceltique de Lorient, Fiddle, Florent Pagny, Folies Bergère, Folk dance, Folk rock, François Couperin, Françoise Hardy, France, France Gall, Francis Cabrel, Frédéric François, Fréhel, French bagpipes, French Basque Country, French electronic music, French house, French language, French West Indies, Funk, Gabriel Fauré, Galleon (band), Gallo language, Galop, Garou (singer), Gascony, Gérard Grisey, Gemshorn, Georges Bizet, Georges Brassens, Georges Guibourg, Gilbert Bécaud, Gill Dougherty, Gojira (band), Gorod (band), Grégory Lemarchal, Great Highland bagpipe, Guadeloupe, Gwerz, Gymnopédies, Hacride, Harmony, Hélène (song), Hector Berlioz, Henri Belolo, Henri Dutilleux, Henri-Montan Berton, Hi-NRG, Hip hop music, Hippolyte André Jean Baptiste Chélard, History of Auvergne, House music, Hurdy-gurdy, I Muvrini, IAM (band), Igor Stravinsky, Indochine (band), Indonesia, Isabelle Boulay, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Jacques Brel, Jacques Champion de Chambonnières, Jacques Duphly, Jacques Higelin, Jacques Morali, Jacques Offenbach, Japan, Jean Racine, Jean Sablon, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Jean-Louis Murat, Jean-Michel Jarre, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Jeanne-Hippolyte Devismes, Joe Dassin, Johnny Hallyday, Josephine Baker, Jules Massenet, Julien Doré, Juliette Gréco, Justice (band), Kan ha diskan, Kenza Farah, Kevrenn Alre, Khaled (musician), Kingdom of France, Klingande, Kronos (band), La Caution, La Rumeur, Lady (Hear Me Tonight), Lakmé, Lara Fabian, Laurent Garnier, Laurent Voulzy, Léo Delibes, Léo Ferré, Le Chat Noir, Le Cimetière des arlequins, Le Lido, Les Discrets, Les Légions Noires, Les Rita Mitsouko, Les Six, Les Thugs, Limousin, Lorie (singer), Lorient, Lorraine, Loudblast, Louis Couperin, Louis XIV of France, Lucienne Boyer, Lunatic, Lusophone, Lute, Lynda Lemay, M. Pokora, M83 (band), Magma (band), Maine (province), Malice Mizer, Malicorne (band), Maloya, Mandolin, Mano Solo, Marais breton, Marc Lavoine, Marcel Azzola, Marcel Dadi, Marie Dubas, Marie-Louise Damien, Martinique, Massacra, Mathieu Boogaerts, Matthieu Chedid, Maurane, Maurice Chevalier, Maurice Ravel, Métal Urbain, Mütiilation, MC Solaar, Melody, Michel Fugain, Minstrel, Miossec, Mireille Mathieu, Mistinguett, Modjo, Monday, Tuesday... Laissez-moi danser, Montmartre, Montparnasse, Morvan, Motet, Moulin Rouge, Musée d'ethnographie de Genève, Music, Music festival, Music history, Music of Dominica, Musical instrument, Mylène Farmer, Natalie Dessay, Natasha St-Pier, Nationalism, Nâdiya, Necrowretch, Niagara (band), Niort, Nivernais, Noir Désir, Nolwenn Leroy, Normandy, Notre Dame school, Nouvelle Chanson, Oberkampf (band), Occitan language, Ogg, Olivier Messiaen, Opera, Opera seria, Ophélie Winter, Oran, Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse, Organum, Orpheus in the Underworld, Ottawan, Oxmo Puccino, P-Funk, Palace of Versailles, Paris, Pascal Obispo, Patricia Kaas, Patrick Bruel, Patrick Hernandez, Paul Personne, Pavane pour une infante défunte, Peer review, Peste Noire, Philippe Prieur, Phoenix (band), Phonautograph, Piano accordion, Pierre Boulez, Pierre Corneille, Pierre Perrin, Pifana, Poitou, Poitou-Charentes, Pomone (opera), Pop punk, PopMatters, Popular music, Psalterium (instrument), Psychedelic rock, Psychobilly, Pub rock (United Kingdom), Pulsar (band), Punk rock, Quadrille, Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo, Raï, Rachid Taha, Rapping, Renaissance of the Celtic Harp, Renan Luce, Renaud, René-Louis Baron, Richard Anthony (singer), Roch Voisine, Rock and roll, Rodolphe Salis, Romantic music, Roots revival, Saintonge, Salut les copains (radio program), Salvatore Adamo, Sega (genre), Selah Sue, Serge Gainsbourg, Serialism, Sheila (singer), Sheila and B. Devotion, Shoegazing, Shy'm, Snow on the Sahara (song), Sonerien Du, Sonneur, Soule, Southern Basque Country, Space disco, Spectacle, Spectral music, Stardust (band), Supernature (song), Suprême NTM, Suzanne Robert, Sylvie Vartan, Sympathetic string, Synth-pop, Téléphone, Télépopmusik, Têtes Raides, Techno, Teen idol, Théodore Claude Henri, vicomte Hersart de la Villemarqué, Thomas Bangalter, Thrash metal, Time signature, Tino Rossi, Tragédie en musique, Tristan Murail, Troubadour, Trouvère, Trust (French band), TTC (band), Tu trouveras, Tud, University of French Polynesia, University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle, Upper Brittany, Vanessa Paradis, Vendée, Versailles (band), Veuze, Village People, Vincent Delerm, Vlad Tepes (band), Volume!, Vorkreist, Windward Caribbean Kulture, Words (F. R. David song), World Creole Music Festival, Xirula, Yann Tiersen, Yann-Fañch Kemener, Yé-yé, Yvette Guilbert, Yvette Horner, Yyrkoon (band), Zaz (singer), Zazie, Zeuhl, 666 (Aphrodite's Child album). Expand index (399 more) »

Academic journal

An academic or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published.

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Acadians

The Acadians (Acadiens) are the descendants of French colonists who settled in Acadia during the 17th and 18th centuries, some of whom are also descended from the Indigenous peoples of the region.

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Accordion

Accordions (from 19th-century German Akkordeon, from Akkord—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type, colloquially referred to as a squeezebox.

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Achille Millien

Achille Millien (4 September 1838 – 12 January 1927) was a French poet and folklorist.

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Air (band)

Air are a French electronic music duo from Versailles, France, consisting of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel.

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Air de cour

The Air de cour was a popular type of secular vocal music in France in the late Renaissance and early Baroque period, from about 1570 until around 1650.

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Alain Barrière

Alain Barrière (born Alain Bellec, 18 November 1935 in La Trinité-sur-Mer, Morbihan, France) is a French singer, who has been active since the 1950s and is known for participating in the 1963 Eurovision Song Contest.

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Alain Chamfort

Alain Chamfort (born Alain Joseph Yves Le Govic; 2 March 1949) is a French singer of Breton origin.

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Alain Souchon

Alain Souchon (born Alain Kienast; 27 May 1944) is a French singer-songwriter and actor.

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Alan Stivell

Alan Stivell (born Alan Cochevelou on 6 January 1944) is a Breton and Celtic musician and singer, recording artist, and master of the Celtic harp.

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Albert Roussel

Albert Charles Paul Marie Roussel (5 April 1869 – 23 August 1937) was a French composer.

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Alcest

Alcest is a French post-metal band from Bagnols-sur-Cèze, founded and led by Neige (Stéphane Paut).

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Alizée

Alizée Jacotey (born 21 August 1984), known professionally as Alizée, is a French singer, dancer and voice actress.

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Amélie (soundtrack)

Amélie is the soundtrack to the 2001 French film Amélie, a motion picture set in Montmartre in Paris, France, about a young woman endeavouring to help and improve the lives of those around her.

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Amesoeurs

Amesoeurs was a French post-punk/black metal band.

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Ange

Ange is a French progressive rock band formed in September 1969 by the Décamps brothers, Francis (keyboards) and Christian (vocals, accordion, acoustic guitar and keyboards).

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Anggun

Anggun Cipta Sasmi (born 29 April 1974) is an Indonesian and French-naturalised singer-songwriter.

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Angoumois

Angoumois or equally historically the comté d'Angoulême was a county and province of France, originally inferior to the parent duchy of Aquitaine, similar to the Périgord to its east but lower and generally less forested, equally with occasional vineyards throughout.

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Anjou

Anjou (Andegavia) is a historical province of France straddling the lower Loire River.

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Annie Cordy

Baroness Léonie Cooreman, known by the stage name Annie Cordy (born 16 June 1928), is a Belgian film actress and singer.

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Anorexia Nervosa (band)

Anorexia Nervosa is a French symphonic black metal band from Limoges, France, formed in 1991.

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Antaeus

Antaeus (Ἀνταῖος, Antaîos, "Opponent”, derived from ἀντάω, antao - I face, I oppose); Änti) was a figure in Greek and Berber mythology. In Greek sources, he was the half-giant son of Poseidon and Gaia. His wife was the goddess Tinge, and he had a daughter named Alceis or Barce. He was famed for his loss to Heracles as part of his 12 Labors.

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Antillean Creole

Antillean Creole is a French-based creole, which is primarily spoken in the Lesser Antilles.

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Aphrodite's Child

Aphrodite's Child was a Greek progressive rock band formed in 1967, by Vangelis Papathanassiou (keyboards), Demis Roussos (bass guitar and vocals), Loukas Sideras (drums and vocals), and Silver Koulouris (guitar).

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Arkhon Infaustus

Arkhon Infaustus is a blackened death metal band from Paris, France.

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Ars nova

Ars nova (Latin for new art)Fallows, David.

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Ars subtilior

Ars subtilior (more subtle art) is a musical style characterized by rhythmic and notational complexity, centered on Paris, Avignon in southern France, also in northern Spain at the end of the fourteenth century.

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Atoll (band)

Atoll is a French progressive rock band.

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Au Bonheur des Dames (band)

Au Bonheur des Dames is a group of french rock from the 1970s led by Ramon Pipin.

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Aunis

Aunis is a historical province of France, situated in the north-west of the department of Charente-Maritime.

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Avril Lavigne

Avril Ramona Lavigne (born 27 September 1984) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and actress.

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Axelle Red

Axelle Red (born Fabienne Demal on 15 February 1968) is a Belgian singer-songwriter.

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Édith Piaf

Édith Piaf (19 December 1915 – 10 October 1963; nee Édith Giovanna Gassion) was a French singer, songwriter, cabaret performer and film actress noted as France's national chanteuse and one of the country's most widely known international stars.

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Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville

Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (25 April 1817 – 26 April 1879) was a French printer and bookseller who lived in Paris.

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Élodie Frégé

Élodie Frégé is a French singer and actress.

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Émile Vacher

Émile Vacher (1883-1969) was a French accordionist associated with, and often deemed the creator of, the bal-musette genre.

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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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Étienne de Crécy

Étienne Bernard de Crécy (also known as Superdiscount, EDC, Minos Pour Main Basse and Mooloodjee) (born 25 February 1969, Lyon, France) is a French DJ and producer who composes electronic music, primarily house.

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Bagad

A bagad is a Breton band, composed of bagpipes (Breton: binioù, French: cornemuse), bombards and drums (including snare, tenor and bass drums).

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Bagad Kemper

Bagad Kemper (using the Breton name for the town of Quimper) is one of the oldest bagad, Breton pipe bands.

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Bagpipes

Bagpipes are a woodwind instrument using enclosed reeds fed from a constant reservoir of air in the form of a bag.

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Bal-musette

Bal-musette is a style of French music and dance that first became popular in Paris in the 1880s.

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Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.

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Ballet

Ballet is a type of performance dance that originated during the Italian Renaissance in the 15th century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia.

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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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Barzaz Breiz

Barzaz Breiz (in modern spelling Barzhaz Breizh, meaning "Ballads of Brittany": barzh is the equivalent of "bard" and Breizh means "Brittany") is a collection of Breton popular songs collected by Théodore Hersart de la Villemarqué and published in 1839.

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Basque Country (greater region)

The Basque Country (Euskal Herria; Pays basque; Vasconia, País Vasco) is the name given to the home of the Basque people.

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Basques

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Baster (band)

Baster is a band which from Réunion founded in 1983.

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Béla Bartók

Béla Viktor János Bartók (25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and an ethnomusicologist.

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Bénabar

Bruno Nicolini (born 16 June 1969), better known by his stage name Bénabar, is a French songwriter and singer, who could be compared to Vincent Delerm and other singers from his generation.

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Bérurier Noir

Bérurier noir is a French punk band formed in Paris in 1983 by Laurent "Loran" Katrakazos (guitar), François Guillemot (vocals) and Dédé (drum machine).

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Beñat Achiary

Beñat Achiary (born in Saint-Palais, Pyrénées-Atlantiques) is a Basque vocal improviser who lives in southern France.

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Belenos (band)

Belenos is a French pagan black metal band from Brittany.

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Benighted

Benighted is a French deathgrind band formed in Saint-Étienne in 1998.

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Benjamin Biolay

Benjamin Biolay (born 20 January 1973) is a French singer, songwriter, musician, actor and record producer.

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Berry, France

Berry is a region located in the center of France.

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Bertsolari

A bertsolari is a singer of bertso, a musical verse in Basque tradition.

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Biarritz

Biarritz (Biarritz or Miarritze; Gascon Biàrritz) is a city on the Bay of Biscay, on the Atlantic coast in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the French Basque Country in Southwestern France.

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Binioù kozh

Binioù means bagpipe in the Breton language.

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Biréli Lagrène

Biréli Lagrène (born 4 September 1966) is a French jazz guitarist.

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Bird vocalization

Bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs.

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Blut Aus Nord

Blut Aus Nord is a black metal band from Mondeville, Calvados, France, which has incorporated avant-garde elements in its music.

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Bob Sinclar

Christophe Le Friant (born 10 May 1969), better known by his stage name Bob Sinclar, is a French record producer, house music DJ, remixer and the owner of the record label Yellow Productions.

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Bombard (music)

The bombard is a contemporary conical-bore double-reed instrument widely used to play traditional Breton music.

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Booba

Elie Yaffa (born December 9, 1976), better known under his stage name Booba, is a French rapper.

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Born to Be Alive

"Born to Be Alive" is a song written by French singer Patrick Hernandez.

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Bourbonnais

Bourbonnais was a historic province in the centre of France that corresponded to the modern département of Allier, along with part of the département of Cher.

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Bourrée

The bourrée (borrèia; also in England, borry or bore) is a dance of French origin and the words and music that accompany it.

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Breakdancing

Breakdancing, also called breaking or b-boying/b-girling, is an athletic style of street dance.

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Bretons

The Bretons (Bretoned) are a Celtic ethnic group located in the region of Brittany in France.

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Brigitte Fontaine

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

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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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Burgundian School

The Burgundian School was a group of composers active in the 15th century in what is now northern and eastern France, Belgium, and the Netherlands, centered on the court of the Dukes of Burgundy.

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Cabaret

Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama.

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Call and response (music)

In music, a call and response is a succession of two distinct phrases usually written in different parts of the music, where the second phrase is heard as a direct commentary on or in response to the first.

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Caramusa

The caramusa is a type of bagpipe played in Corsica.

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Carmen

Carmen is an opera in four acts by French composer Georges Bizet.

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Carpentras

Carpentras (Provençal Occitan: Carpentràs in classical norm or Carpentras in Mistralian norm) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.

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Cassius (band)

Cassius are a French musical duo consisting of producers Philippe Cerboneschi and Hubert Blanc-Francard, better known as Philippe Zdar and Boom Bass.

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Cœur de pirate

Béatrice Martin (born September 22, 1989), better known by her stage name Cœur de pirate (French for Pirate's Heart), is a Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist.

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Celine Dion

Céline Marie Claudette Dion, (born 30 March 1968) is a Canadian singer.

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Celtic music

Celtic music is a broad grouping of music genres that evolved out of the folk music traditions of the Celtic people of Western Europe.

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Cerrone

Marc Cerrone (born 24 May 1952) is a French disco drummer, composer, record producer and creator of major concert shows.

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Cetara

Cetera or cetara is a plucked string instrument played in Corsica.

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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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Chantal Goya

Chantal Goya (born Chantal de Guerre; 10 June 1942) is a French singer and actress.

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Charles Aznavour

Charles Aznavour (born Shahnour Vaghinag Aznavourian, Շահնուր Վաղինակ Ազնավուրեան; 22 May 1924) is a French, later naturalised Armenian, singer, lyricist, actor, public activist and diplomat.

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Charles Trenet

Louis Charles Auguste Claude Trenet, known as Charles Trenet (18 May 1913 – 19 February 2001), was a French singer and songwriter.

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Châteauroux

Châteauroux is the capital of the Indre department in central France and the second-largest town in the province of Berry, after Bourges.

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Chemins de Terre

Chemins de Terre is a folk rock album by Alan Stivell, originally released in 1973.

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Chivalry

Chivalry, or the chivalric code, is an informal, varying code of conduct developed between 1170 and 1220, never decided on or summarized in a single document, associated with the medieval institution of knighthood; knights' and gentlewomen's behaviours were governed by chivalrous social codes.

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Chorus line

A chorus line is a large group of dancers who together perform synchronized routines, usually in musical theatre.

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Christina Goh

Christina Goh is a French singer, songwriter and poet.

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Christophe Willem

Christophe Durier better known as Christophe Willem (born 3 August 1983 in Enghien-les-Bains, Val-d'Oise), is a French singer and the winner of the fourth edition of Nouvelle Star (French version of Pop Idol) in 2006.

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Citroën Traction Avant

The Citroën Traction Avant is an executive car produced by the French manufacturer Citroën from 1934 to 1957.

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Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical-instrument family belonging to the group known as the woodwind instruments.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Claude Balbastre

Claude-Bénigne Balbastre (December 8, 1724 – May 9, 1799) was a French composer, organist, harpsichordist and fortepianist.

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Claude Debussy

Achille-Claude Debussy (22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer.

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Claude François

Claude Antoine Marie François (1 February 1939 – 11 March 1978), also known by the nickname Cloclo, was a French pop singer, composer, songwriter, producer, drummer and dancer.

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Claude Vivier

Claude Vivier (14 April 19487 March 1983) was a Canadian composer.

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Comedy

In a modern sense, comedy (from the κωμῳδία, kōmōidía) refers to any discourse or work generally intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, television, film, stand-up comedy, or any other medium of entertainment.

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Compas

Compas (konpa), or kompa, is a dance music and modern méringue in Haiti with African roots.

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Computer music

Computer music is the application of computing technology in music composition, to help human composers create new music or to have computers independently create music, such as with algorithmic composition programs.

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Courante

The courante, corrente, coranto and corant are some of the names given to a family of triple metre dances from the late Renaissance and the Baroque era.

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Courtly love

Courtly love (or fin'amor in Occitan) was a medieval European literary conception of love that emphasized nobility and chivalry.

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D.I.S.C.O.

"D.I.S.C.O." is a song by the French band Ottawan, written and produced by Daniel Vangarde and Jean Kluger.

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Daft Punk

Daft Punk are a French electronic music duo from Paris formed in 1993 by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter.

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Dagoba (band)

Dagoba is a French groove metal band formed in 1997 by vocalist Shawter.

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Dalida

Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti (17 January 1933 – 3 May 1987), better known as Dalida (داليدا), was a French-Italian-Egyptian singer and actress who spent most of her career in France.

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Dan Ar Braz

Dan Ar Braz (born Daniel Le Bras on 15 January 1949 in Quimper) is a Breton guitarist-singer-composer and the founder of Héritage des Celtes, a 50-piece Pan-Celt band.

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Dance

Dance is a performing art form consisting of purposefully selected sequences of human movement.

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Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.

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Daniel Darc

Daniel Rozoum (20 May 1959 - 28 February 2013), known as Daniel Darc, was a French singer, who achieved success with his band Taxi Girl (together with Mirwais Ahmadzaï) between 1978 and 1986, and also as a solo artist.

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David Guetta

Pierre David Guetta (born 7 November 1967) is a French DJ, songwriter, record producer and remixer who has sold over nine million albums and thirty million singles worldwide.

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Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music.

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Deathspell Omega

Deathspell Omega is a French black metal band.

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Dee Nasty

Dee Nasty (Born 1960) is a DJ, producer, and Hip-Hop pioneer in Paris, France.

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Diam's

Diam's (born Mélanie Georgiades on 25 July 1980) is a French-language rap artist of French and Greek Cypriot origin.

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Diane Tell

Born in Québec City, Diane Tell entered the Val d’Or conservatory at the age of six.

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Dick Rivers

Dick Rivers (born Hervé Forneri, 24 April 1945) is a French singer and actor who has been performing since the early 1960s.

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Didi (song)

"Didi" (دي دي) is a song written and performed by Algerian artist Khaled, released in 1992.

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Disc jockey

A disc jockey, often abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays existing recorded music for a live audience.

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Duchy of Burgundy

The Duchy of Burgundy (Ducatus Burgundiae; Duché de Bourgogne) emerged in the 9th century as one of the successors of the ancient Kingdom of the Burgundians, which after its conquest in 532 had formed a constituent part of the Frankish Empire.

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Dun

A dun is an ancient or medieval fort.

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Eddy Mitchell

Claude Moine (born 3 July 1942), better known by his stage name Eddy Mitchell, is a French singer and actor.

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Editor-in-chief

An editor-in-chief, also known as lead editor, chief editor, managing or executive editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies.

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Electro (music)

Electro (or electro-funk).

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Electro dance

Electro dance (otherwise known as Tecktonik and Milky Way) is a frenetic and quirky form of street dance typically performed to electro house music.

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Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.

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Erick Benzi

Erick Benzi (born 1 March 1959 in Marseille, France) is a French musician, songwriter, composer and record producer.

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Erik Satie

Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 18661 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist.

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Eros (Dün album)

Eros is the name of the first (and, to date, only) recording made by the French progressive rock band Dün.

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Eskaton

Eskaton is a defunct vanity record label created by Coil, exclusively for albums put out by the group and their friends.

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Eths

Eths was a French metal band from Marseille.

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Euro disco

Euro disco (or Eurodisco) is the variety of European forms of electronic dance music that evolved from disco in the later 1970s; incorporating elements of pop, new wave and rock into a disco-like continuous dance atmosphere.

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F. R. David

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Fairyland (band)

Fairyland is a symphonic power metal band from France created by songwriters Philippe Giordana and Willdric Lievin in 1998.

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Faudel

Faudel (فضيل), born Faudel Belloua (فضيل بيلوى), is a French-Algerian raï singer and actor.

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Félix Mayol

Félix Mayol (18 November 1872 – 26 October 1941) was a French singer and entertainer.

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Fest Noz

A Fest Noz (Breton for night festival) is a Breton traditional festival, with dancing in groups and live musicians playing acoustic instruments.

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Festival Interceltique de Lorient

The Festival Interceltique de Lorient (French), Gouelioù Etrekeltiek An Oriant (Breton) or Inter-Celtic Festival of Lorient in English, is an annual Celtic festival, located in the city of Lorient, Brittany, France.

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Fiddle

A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin.

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Florent Pagny

Florent Pagny (born 6 November 1961 in Chalon-sur-Saône) is a French musician and actor.

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Folies Bergère

The Folies Bergère is a cabaret music hall, located in Paris, France.

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Folk dance

A folk dance is developed by people that reflect the life of the people of a certain country or region.

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Folk rock

Folk rock is a hybrid music genre combining elements of folk music and rock music, which arose in the United States and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s.

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François Couperin

François Couperin (10 November 1668 – 11 September 1733) was a French Baroque composer, organist and harpsichordist.

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Françoise Hardy

Françoise Madeleine Hardy (born 17 January 1944) is a French singer-songwriter.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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France Gall

Isabelle Geneviève Marie Anne "France" Gall (9 October 1947 – 7 January 2018) was a French yé-yé singer.

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Francis Cabrel

Francis Cabrel (born 23 November 1953 in Agen) is a French singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Frédéric François

Born on 3 June 1950 in Lercara Friddi, Sicily, Italy, Frédéric François (real name: Francesco Barracato), is a French-speaking singer-composer living in Belgium.

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Fréhel

Fréhel (born Marguerite Boulc'h; 13 July 1891 – 3 February 1951) was a French singer and actress.

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French bagpipes

French bagpipes cover a wide range and variety of styles of bagpipes and piping, from the Celtic piping and Music of Brittany to the Northern Occitan's cabrette.

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French Basque Country

The French Basque Country, or Northern Basque Country (Iparralde (i.e. 'the Northern Region'), Pays basque français, País Vasco francés) is a region lying on the west of the French department of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

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French electronic music

French electronic music, a panorama of French music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production.

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French house

French house is a style of house music originally produced by French artists, a popular strand of the late 1990s and 2000s European dance music scene and a form of Euro disco.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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French West Indies

The term French West Indies or French Antilles (Antilles françaises) refers to the seven territories currently under French sovereignty in the Antilles islands of the Caribbean.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Gabriel Fauré

Gabriel Urbain Fauré (12 May 1845 – 4 November 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher.

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Galleon (band)

Galleon is French house group from Marseille, founded by Michel Fages and Phillippe Laurent, (who recruited Gilles Fahy for singing).

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Gallo language

Gallo is a regional language of France.

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Galop

In dance, the galop, named after the fastest running gait of a horse (see gallop), a shortened version of the original term galoppade, is a lively country dance, introduced in the late 1820s to Parisian society by the Duchesse de Berry and popular in Vienna, Berlin and London.

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Garou (singer)

Pierre Garand (born 26 June 1972), known by his stage name Garou (a diminutive of his last name "Garand"), is a French Canadian singer and actor from Sherbrooke, Quebec.

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Gascony

Gascony (Gascogne; Gascon: Gasconha; Gaskoinia) is an area of southwest France that was part of the "Province of Guyenne and Gascony" prior to the French Revolution.

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Gérard Grisey

Gérard Grisey (17 June 1946 – 11 November 1998) was a French composer of contemporary music.

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Gemshorn

The gemshorn is an instrument of the ocarina family that was historically made from the horn of a chamois, goat, or other suitable animal.

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Georges Bizet

Georges Bizet (25 October 18383 June 1875), registered at birth as Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer of the romantic era.

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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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Georges Guibourg

Georges Guibourg (June 3, 1891 – January 8, 1970) was a French singer, author, writer, playwright, and actor, George Guibourg, alias Georgius, alias Theodore Crapulet, was one of the most popular and versatile performers in Paris for more than 50 years.

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Gilbert Bécaud

Gilbert Bécaud (24 October 1927 – 18 December 2001) was a French singer, composer, pianist and actor, known as "Monsieur 100,000 Volts" for his energetic performances.

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Gill Dougherty

Gill Dougherty is a French singer and songwriter, heavily influenced by 70s and 80s rock, who was born April 1961 in Toulouse.

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Gojira (band)

Gojira are a French heavy metal band from Bayonne.

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Gorod (band)

Gorod is a technical death metal band from Bordeaux, France.

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Grégory Lemarchal

Grégory Jean-Paul Lemarchal (13 May 1983 – 30 April 2007), known professionally as Grégory Lemarchal, was a French singer who rose to fame by winning the fourth series of the reality television show Star Academy, which was broadcast on the TF1.

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Great Highland bagpipe

The Great Highland bagpipe (a' phìob mhòr "the great pipe") is a type of bagpipe native to Scotland.

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Guadeloupe

Guadeloupe (Antillean Creole: Gwadloup) is an insular region of France located in the Leeward Islands, part of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean.

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Gwerz

Gwerz (plural gwerzioù, "ballad", "lament") is a type of folk song of Brittany.

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Gymnopédies

The Gymnopédies, published in Paris starting in 1888, are three piano compositions written by French composer and pianist Erik Satie.

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Hacride

Hacride is a French progressive metal band.

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Harmony

In music, harmony considers the process by which the composition of individual sounds, or superpositions of sounds, is analysed by hearing.

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Hélène (song)

"Hélène" is a 1989 pop song recorded by the Canadian singer Roch Voisine.

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Hector Berlioz

Louis-Hector Berlioz; 11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique, Harold en Italie, Roméo et Juliette, Grande messe des morts (Requiem), L'Enfance du Christ, Benvenuto Cellini, La Damnation de Faust, and Les Troyens. Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works, and conducted several concerts with more than 1,000 musicians. He also composed around 50 compositions for voice, accompanied by piano or orchestra. His influence was critical for the further development of Romanticism, especially in composers like Richard Wagner, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Franz Liszt, Richard Strauss, and Gustav Mahler.

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Henri Belolo

Henri Belolo (born November 1936) is a French music producer active during the disco era.

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Henri Dutilleux

Henri Dutilleux (22 January 1916 – 22 May 2013) was a French composer active mainly in the second half of the 20th century.

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Henri-Montan Berton

Henri-Montan Berton (17 September 1767 – 22 April 1844) was a French composer, teacher, and writer, mostly known as a composer of operas for the Opéra-Comique.

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Hi-NRG

Hi-NRG (pronounced "high energy") is a genre of uptempo disco or electronic dance music (EDM) that originated in the United States during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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Hippolyte André Jean Baptiste Chélard

Hippolyte André Jean Baptiste Chélard (1 February 1789 – 12 February 1861) was a French composer, violist, and conductor of the Classical era.

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History of Auvergne

The history of the Auvergne dates back to the early Middle Ages, when it was a historic province in south central France.

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House music

House music is a genre of electronic dance music created by club DJs and music producers in Chicago in the early 1980s.

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Hurdy-gurdy

The hurdy-gurdy is a stringed instrument that produces sound by a hand crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings.

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I Muvrini

I Muvrini is a Corsican folk music group, who sing traditional Corsican music in their native Corsican language.

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IAM (band)

IAM (pronounced as English "I am") is a French hip hop band from Marseille, formed in 1989, and composed of Akhenaton (Philippe Fragione), Shurik'n (Geoffroy Mussard), Khéops (Eric Mazel), Imhotep (Pascal Perez), and Kephren (François Mendy).

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Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (ˈiɡərʲ ˈfʲɵdərəvʲɪtɕ strɐˈvʲinskʲɪj; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor.

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Indochine (band)

Indochine is a French pop/rock and new wave band, formed in Paris in 1981.

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Indonesia

Indonesia (or; Indonesian), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Republik Indonesia), is a transcontinental unitary sovereign state located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania.

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Isabelle Boulay

Isabelle Boulay, (born 6 July 1972) is a French Canadian singer.

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Issy-les-Moulineaux

Issy-les-Moulineaux is a commune in the southwestern suburban area of Paris, France, lying on the left bank of the river Seine.

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Jacques Brel

Jacques Romain Georges Brel (8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978) was a Belgian singer, songwriter, poet, actor and director who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following—initially in Belgium and France, later throughout the world.

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Jacques Champion de Chambonnières

Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (Jacques Champion, commonly referred to as Chambonnières) (c. 1601/2 – 1672) was a French harpsichordist, dancer and composer.

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Jacques Duphly

Jacques Duphly (also Dufly, Du Phly; January 12, 1715 – July 15, 1789) was a French harpsichordist and composer.

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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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Jacques Morali

Jacques Morali (4 July 1947 – 15 November 1991) was a French disco and dance music singer-songwriter, producer, arranger and creator of acts like The Ritchie Family and Village People.

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Jacques Offenbach

Jacques Offenbach (20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario of the romantic period.

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Japan

Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.

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Jean Racine

Jean Racine, baptismal name Jean-Baptiste Racine (22 December 163921 April 1699), was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France (along with Molière and Corneille), and an important literary figure in the Western tradition.

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Jean Sablon

Jean Sablon (25 March 1906 - 24 February 1994) was a French singer and actor.

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Jean-Baptiste Lully

Jean-Baptiste Lully (born Giovanni Battista Lulli,; 28 November 1632 – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-born French composer, instrumentalist, and dancer who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France.

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Jean-Jacques Goldman

Jean-Jacques Goldman (born 11 October 1951) is a Grammy Award-winning French singer-songwriter.

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Jean-Louis Murat

Jean-Louis Murat (born 28 January 1952) is the pseudonym of the French singer/songwriter Jean-Louis Bergheaud. He spent much of his childhood with his grandparents in Murat-le-Quaire from which he got his pseudonym.

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Jean-Michel Jarre

Jean-Michel André Jarre (born 24 August 1948) is a French composer, performer and record producer.

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Jean-Philippe Rameau

Jean-Philippe Rameau (–) was one of the most important French composers and music theorists of the 18th century.

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Jean-Pierre Blanchard

Jean-Pierre Blanchard (4 July 1753 – 7 March 1809) was a French inventor, best known as a pioneer in balloon flight.

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Jeanne-Hippolyte Devismes

Jeanne-Hippolyte Devismes (17651834?) (née Jeanne-Hippolyte Moyroud) was a French composer.

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Joe Dassin

Joseph Ira Dassin (5 November 1938 – 20 August 1980) was an American-born French singer-songwriter.

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Johnny Hallyday

Jean-Philippe Léo Smet (15 June 1943 – 5 December 2017), better known by his stage name Johnny Hallyday, was a French rock and roll and pop singer and actor, credited for having brought rock and roll to France.

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Josephine Baker

Josephine Baker (born Freda Josephine McDonald; 3 June 1906 – 12 April 1975) was an American-born French entertainer, activist, and French Resistance agent.

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Jules Massenet

Jules Émile Frédéric Massenet (12 May 184213 August 1912) was a French composer of the Romantic era best known for his operas, of which he wrote more than thirty.

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Julien Doré

Julien Doré (born 7 July 1982) is a French singer-songwriter, musician and actor.

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Juliette Gréco

Juliette Gréco (born 7 February 1927) is a French actress and chanson singer.

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Justice (band)

Justice is a French electronic music duo consisting of Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay.

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Kan ha diskan

Kan ha diskan is probably the most common type of traditional music of Brittany.

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Kenza Farah

Kenza Farah (born July 8, 1986) is a Franco-Algerian singer-songwriter.

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Kevrenn Alre

Kevrenn Alre ("Bagad and Celtic Circle of Auray" in Breton language) is a group of music and dance of Breton traditional inspiration, created in 1951, by railroad employees of the marshalling yard of Auray (Morbihan, Brittany).

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Khaled (musician)

Khaled Hadj Ibrahim (خالد حاج إبراهيم, born 29 February 1960), better known by his mononym Khaled, is an Algerian musician, singer and songwriter born in Oran, Algeria.

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Kingdom of France

The Kingdom of France (Royaume de France) was a medieval and early modern monarchy in Western Europe.

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Klingande

Cédric Steinmyller (born 30 November 1991), best known by his stage name Klingande, is a French DJ and tropical house producer with a prominent use of the piano and the saxophone.

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Kronos (band)

Kronos was a death metal band from France.

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La Caution

La Caution is a French hip hop duo consisting of members Hi-Tekk and Nikkfurie of Moroccan descent.

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La Rumeur

La Rumeur is a French-language rap group from Élancourt (Yvelines, France).

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Lady (Hear Me Tonight)

"Lady (Hear Me Tonight)" is the debut single by French house duo Modjo, written and performed by vocalist Yann Destagnol and producer Romain Tranchart.

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Lakmé

Lakmé is an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes to a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille.

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Lara Fabian

Lara Sophie Katy Crokaert (born January 9, 1970), better known as Lara Fabian, is a Canadian-Belgian singer.

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Laurent Garnier

Laurent Garnier (born 1 February 1966 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France), also known as Choice, is a French electronic music producer and DJ.

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Laurent Voulzy

Laurent Voulzy (born Lucien Voulzy on 18 December 1948) is a French singer and composer.

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Léo Delibes

Clément Philibert Léo Delibes (21 February 1836 – 16 January 1891) was a French composer of the Romantic era (1815–1910), who specialised in ballets, operas, and other works for the stage.

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Léo Ferré

Léo Ferré (24 August 1916 – 14 July 1993) was a French-born Monégasque poet and composer, and a dynamic and controversial live performer, whose career in France dominated the years after the Second World War until his death.

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Le Chat Noir

Le Chat Noir (French for "The Black Cat") was a nineteenth-century entertainment establishment, in the bohemian Montmartre district of Paris.

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Le Cimetière des arlequins

Le Cimetière des arlequins is the second album by the French progressive rock band Ange, released in 1973.

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Le Lido

Le Lido is a cabaret and burlesque show located on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, France.

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Les Discrets

Les Discrets is a French shoegazing/post-rock project created and led by Fursy Teyssier as a "platform gathering music and art." Teyssier was the sole member of the band until 2009, when he was joined by Audrey Hadorn and Winterhalter.

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Les Légions Noires

Les Légions Noires (also known as The Black Legions in English, or simply abbreviated to LLN) was a group of French underground black metal musicians and their bands, centered mostly around the city of Brest, in Britanny.

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Les Rita Mitsouko

Les Rita Mitsouko (The Rita Mitsoukos) was a French pop rock group formed by the guitarist Fred Chichin and the singer Catherine Ringer.

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Les Six

"Les Six" is a name given to a group of six French composers who worked in Montparnasse.

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Les Thugs

Les Thugs are a punk band from France.

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Limousin

Limousin (Lemosin) is a former administrative region of France.

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Lorie (singer)

Laure Pester, professionally known as Lorie, (born 2 May 1982) is a French singer.

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Lorient

Lorient is a town (French "commune") and seaport in the Morbihan "department" of Brittany in North-Western France.

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Lorraine

Lorraine (Lorrain: Louréne; Lorraine Franconian: Lottringe; German:; Loutrengen) is a cultural and historical region in north-eastern France, now located in the administrative region of Grand Est.

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Loudblast

Loudblast is a Death/Thrash band that pioneered the genres in France, and one of the most important French metal bands of the 1990s.

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Louis Couperin

Louis Couperin (c. 1626 – 29 August 1661) was a French Baroque composer and performer.

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Louis XIV of France

Louis XIV (Louis Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (Roi Soleil), was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who reigned as King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.

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Lucienne Boyer

Lucienne Boyer (18 August 1901 – 6 December 1983) was a French diseuse and singer, best known for her song "Parlez-moi d'amour".

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Lunatic

Lunatic is an informal term referring to a person who is considered as mentally ill, dangerous, foolish or unpredictable, crazy, conditions once attributed to lunacy.

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Lusophone

Lusophones (lusófonos) are people who speak the Portuguese language, either as native speakers or as learners.

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Lute

A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck (either fretted or unfretted) and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body.

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Lynda Lemay

Lynda Lemay (born 25 July 1966 in Portneuf, Quebec) is a Canadian francophone singer-songwriter.

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M. Pokora

Matthieu Tota (born 26 September 1985), commonly known as M. Pokora or Matt Pokora, is a French singer and songwriter of Polish origin.

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M83 (band)

M83 are a French electronic music project currently based in Los Angeles.

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Magma (band)

Magma are a French progressive rock band founded in Paris in 1969 by classically trained drummer Christian Vander, who claimed as his inspiration a "vision of humanity's spiritual and ecological future" that profoundly disturbed him.

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Maine (province)

Maine is one of the traditional provinces of France (not to be confused with La Maine, the river).

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Malice Mizer

Malice Mizer (stylized as MALICE MIZER) was a Japanese visual kei rock band active from August 1992 to December 2001.

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Malicorne (band)

Malicorne are a French folk and folk rock band formed in September 1973 by Gabriel Yacoub, Marie Yacoub (now Marie Sauvet), Hughes de Courson and Laurent Vercambre.

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Maloya

Maloya is one of the two major music genres of Réunion, usually sung in Réunion Creole, and traditionally accompanied by percussion and a musical bow.

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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".

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Mano Solo

Mano Solo (24 April 1963 – 10 January 2010), born Emmanuel Cabut, was a French singer.

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Marais breton

Vendée --> The Marais breton (or Marais breton-vendéen, "Breton Marsh") is a zone géographique humide (humid geographic zone) along France's Atlantic coast.

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Marc Lavoine

Marc Lucien Lavoine (born 6 August 1962 in Longjumeau, Essonne) is a French singer and actor.

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Marcel Azzola

Marcel Azzola (born 10 July 1927) is a French accordionist of Italian descent; his mother was from Valbondione and his father was from Pradalunga.

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Marcel Dadi

Marcel Dadi (20 August 1951 – 17 July 1996) was a Tunisian-born Jewish French guitarist known for his finger-picking style which faithfully recreated the instrumental styles of American guitarists such as Chet Atkins, Merle Travis and Jerry Reed.

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Marie Dubas

Marie Dubas (3 September 1894 – 21 February 1972) was a French music-hall singer, diseuse and comedian.

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Marie-Louise Damien

Marie-Louise Damien (5 December 1889 – 30 January 1978), better known by the stage name Damia, was a French singer and actress.

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Martinique

Martinique is an insular region of France located in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of and a population of 385,551 inhabitants as of January 2013.

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Massacra

Massacra was one of France's leading death/thrash metal bands in the early nineties.

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Mathieu Boogaerts

Mathieu Boogaerts (born 1970 in Fontenay-sous-Bois), is a French singer-songwriter.

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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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Maurane

Claudine Luypaerts, better known as Maurane (12 November 1960 – 7 May 2018), was a Belgian singer and actress.

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Maurice Chevalier

Maurice Auguste Chevalier (September 12, 1888 – January 1, 1972) was a French actor, cabaret singer and entertainer.

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Maurice Ravel

Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor.

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Métal Urbain

Métal Urbain (meaning urban metal) was one of the first French punk groups, formed in 1976 in Paris.

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Mütiilation

Mütiilation is a French ambient black metal solo project, consisting of William "Meyhna'ch" Roussel.

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MC Solaar

Claude M'Barali MC Solaar ((born March 5, 1969) is a French rapper of Senegalese and Chadian origin. He is one of France's most famous and influential hip hop artists. MC Solaar is known for his complex lyrics, which rely on word play, lyricism, and inquiry. In the English-speaking world, Solaar was signed by London-based acid jazz record label Talkin' Loud and recorded with British group Urban Species and the late rapper Guru, who was a member of the critically acclaimed New York-based rap group Gang Starr. Solaar has since released eight studio albums and one live album.

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Melody

A melody (from Greek μελῳδία, melōidía, "singing, chanting"), also tune, voice, or line, is a linear succession of musical tones that the listener perceives as a single entity.

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Michel Fugain

Michel Fugain (born 12 May 1942 in Grenoble, Isère) is a French singer and composer.

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Minstrel

A minstrel was a medieval European entertainer.

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Miossec

Christophe Miossec is a French singer and songwriter born in Brest, Brittany, France on December 24, 1964.

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Mireille Mathieu

Mireille Mathieu (born 22 July 1946) is a French singer.

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Mistinguett

Mistinguett (3 April 1875 – 5 January 1956) was a French actress and singer, whose birth name was Jeanne Florentine Bourgeois.

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Modjo

Modjo was a French house musical duo made up of producer Romain Tranchart (born 9 June 1976) and vocalist Yann Destagnol (a.k.a. Yann Destal, born 14 July 1978).

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Monday, Tuesday... Laissez-moi danser

"Monday, Tuesday...

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Montmartre

Montmartre is a large hill in Paris's 18th arrondissement.

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Montparnasse

Montparnasse(French) is an area of Paris, France, on the left bank of the river Seine, centred at the crossroads of the Boulevard du Montparnasse and the Rue de Rennes, between the Rue de Rennes and boulevard Raspail.

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Morvan

The Morvan is a mountainous massif lying just to the west of the Côte d'Or escarpment in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.

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Motet

In western music, a motet is a mainly vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from the late medieval era to the present.

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Moulin Rouge

Moulin Rouge (French for "Red Mill") is a cabaret in Paris, France.

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Musée d'ethnographie de Genève

The Musée d'ethnographie de Genève ("Geneva Ethnography Museum") is one of the most important ethnographic museums in Switzerland.

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Music

Music is an art form and cultural activity whose medium is sound organized in time.

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Music festival

A music festival is a community event oriented towards live performances of singing and instrument playing that is often presented with a theme such as musical genre (e.g., blues, folk, jazz, classical music), nationality, or locality of musicians, or holiday.

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Music history

Music history, sometimes called historical musicology, is the highly diverse subfield of the broader discipline of musicology that studies music from a historical viewpoint.

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Music of Dominica

The music of Dominica includes a variety of genres including all the popular genres of the world.

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Musical instrument

A musical instrument is an instrument created or adapted to make musical sounds.

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Mylène Farmer

Mylène Jeanne Gautier (born 12 September 1961), known professionally as Mylène Farmer, is a Canadian-born French singer, songwriter, occasional actress, writer, and entrepreneur.

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Natalie Dessay

Natalie Dessay (born Nathalie Dessaix, 19 April 1965, in Lyon) is a French opera singer who had a highly acclaimed career as a coloratura soprano before leaving the opera stage on 15 October 2013.

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Natasha St-Pier

Natasha St-Pier (born 10 February 1981) is a Canadian singer of Acadian origin who has spent most of her career in France.

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Nationalism

Nationalism is a political, social, and economic system characterized by the promotion of the interests of a particular nation, especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining sovereignty (self-governance) over the homeland.

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Nâdiya

Nâdiya (born Nadia Zighem on June 19, 1973) is a French R&B singer of Algerian origin.

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Necrowretch

Necrowretch is a French Death metal band from Valence, Rhône-Alpes; formed in 2008.

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Niagara (band)

Niagara was a French rock band that achieved popularity both in France and Canada in the 1980s and early 1990s.

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Niort

Niort is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in western France.

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Nivernais

Nivernais is a former province of France, around the city of Nevers, which forms the modern department of Nièvre.

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Noir Désir

Noir Désir were a French rock band from Bordeaux.

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Nolwenn Leroy

Nolwenn Le Magueresse (born 28 September 1982 in Saint-Renan, Brittany, France), known by her stage name Nolwenn Leroy (French pronunciation), is a French singer-songwriter, musician and voice actress.

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Normandy

Normandy (Normandie,, Norman: Normaundie, from Old French Normanz, plural of Normant, originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is one of the 18 regions of France, roughly referring to the historical Duchy of Normandy.

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Notre Dame school

The Notre Dame school or the Notre Dame school of polyphony refers to the group of composers working at or near the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris from about 1160 to 1250, along with the music they produced.

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Nouvelle Chanson

Nouvelle Chanson (meaning "New Song"), derived from the French expression nouvelle scène française, sometimes anglicized as New Chanson, is a musical genre of Chanson which emerged in France in the 1990s and developed in the 2000s.

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Oberkampf (band)

Oberkampf were a French punk rock band formed in 1978 by Pat Kebra (guitar), Joe Hell (vocals), Buck-Dali (bass) and Dominik Descoubes (drums).

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Occitan language

Occitan, also known as lenga d'òc (langue d'oc) by its native speakers, is a Romance language.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Olivier Messiaen

Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen (December 10, 1908 – April 27, 1992) was a French composer, organist, and ornithologist, one of the major composers of the 20th century.

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Opera

Opera (English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere) is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers.

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Opera seria

Opera seria (plural: opere serie; usually called dramma per musica or melodramma serio) is an Italian musical term which refers to the noble and "serious" style of Italian opera that predominated in Europe from the 1710s to about 1770.

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Ophélie Winter

Ophélie Kleerekoper-Winter (born 20 February 1974) is a French hip hop and R&B singer and actress.

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Oran

Oran (وَهران, Wahrān; Berber language: ⵡⴻⵂⵔⴰⵏ, Wehran) is a major coastal city located in the north-west of Algeria.

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Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse

The Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse is a French orchestra based in Toulouse.

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Organum

Organum is, in general, a plainchant melody with at least one added voice to enhance the harmony, developed in the Middle Ages.

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Orpheus in the Underworld

Orphée aux enfers, whose title translates from the French as Orpheus in the Underworld, is an opéra bouffe (a form of operetta), or opéra féerie in its revised version.

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Ottawan

Ottawan was a pop music duo, who had the hit singles "D.I.S.C.O." and "Hands Up (Give Me Your Heart)" in the early 1980s.

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Oxmo Puccino

Oxmo Puccino (born Abdoulaye Diarra; 3 August 1974) is a hip hop musician born in Mali.

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P-Funk

P-Funk (also spelled P Funk or P. Funk) is the repertoire and performers associated with George Clinton.

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Palace of Versailles

The Palace of Versailles (Château de Versailles;, or) was the principal residence of the Kings of France from Louis XIV in 1682 until the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Pascal Obispo

Pascal Michel Obispo (born 8 January 1965) is a French singer-songwriter.

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Patricia Kaas

Patricia Kaas (born 5 December 1966 in Forbach) is a French singer and actress.

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Patrick Bruel

Patrick Bruel (born Patrick Benguigui on 14 May 1959) is a French singer, actor, and professional poker player.

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Patrick Hernandez

Patrick Hernandez (born 6 April 1949 in Le Blanc-Mesnil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France) is a French singer who had a worldwide hit with "Born to Be Alive" in 1979.

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Paul Personne

Paul Personne (born 27 December 1949, Argenteuil, France) is a French blues singer and guitarist.

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Pavane pour une infante défunte

Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a Dead Infanta) is piece for solo piano by the French composer Maurice Ravel in 1899 when he was studying composition at the Conservatoire de Paris under Gabriel Fauré.

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Peer review

Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people of similar competence to the producers of the work (peers).

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Peste Noire

Peste Noire, taking their name from the Black Plague, is a black metal band from La Chaise-Dieu, France.

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Philippe Prieur

Philippe Prieur (born March 2, 1960 in Amboise, France) is a former professional footballer.

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Phoenix (band)

Phoenix are an indie pop band from Versailles, France, consisting of Thomas Mars (lead vocals), Deck d'Arcy (bass/ keyboards/ backing vocals), Christian Mazzalai (guitar/ backing vocals) and Laurent Brancowitz (guitar/ keyboards/ backing vocals).

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Phonautograph

The phonautograph is the earliest known device for recording sound.

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Piano accordion

A piano accordion is an accordion equipped with a right-hand keyboard similar to a piano or organ.

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Pierre Boulez

Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez CBE (26 March 1925 – 5 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor, writer and founder of institutions.

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Pierre Corneille

Pierre Corneille (Rouen, 6 June 1606 – Paris, 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian.

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Pierre Perrin

Pierre Perrin (c.1620 – 24 April 1675) was a French poet and librettist.

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Pifana

The pifana is a type of gemshorn played in Corsica.

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Poitou

Poitou, in Poitevin: Poetou, was a province of west-central France whose capital city was Poitiers.

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Poitou-Charentes

Poitou-Charentes is a former administrative region in south-western France.

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Pomone (opera)

Pomone (Pomona) is a pastoral opera in a prologue and five acts by Robert Cambert with a libretto by Pierre Perrin.

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Pop punk

Pop punk (also known as punk-pop) is a music genre that fuses elements of pop music with punk rock.

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PopMatters

PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture.

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Popular music

Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.

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Psalterium (instrument)

A psalterium, or tambourin à cordes, is a stringed musical instrument, the name of which is synonymous with the psaltery.

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Psychedelic rock

Psychedelic rock is a diverse style of rock music inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centred around perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs.

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Psychobilly

Psychobilly is a rock music fusion genre that mixes elements of rockabilly and punk rock.

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Pub rock (United Kingdom)

Pub rock is a rock music genre that was developed in the early to mid-1970s in the United Kingdom.

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Pulsar (band)

Pulsar is a French progressive rock band whose influences include Pink Floyd and King Crimson, plus classical musicians and composers such as Gustav Mahler.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Quadrille

The quadrille is a dance that was fashionable in late 18th- and 19th-century Europe and its colonies.

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Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo

Qui sème le vent récolte le tempo is French rapper MC Solaar's first album.

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Raï

Raï (راي), sometimes written rai, is a form of Algerian folk music that dates back to the 1920s.

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Rachid Taha

Rachid Taha (Arabic: رشيد طه) (born 18 September 1958 in Sig, Algeria) is an Algerian singer and activist based in France who has been described as "sonically adventurous." His music is influenced by many different styles such as rock, electronic, punk and raï.

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Rapping

Rapping (or rhyming, spitting, emceeing, MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular", which is performed or chanted in a variety of ways, usually over a backbeat or musical accompaniment.

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Renaissance of the Celtic Harp

Renaissance de la Harpe Celtique or Renaissance of the Celtic Harp is a 1972 record album by the Breton master of the Celtic harp Alan Stivell that revolutionised the connection between traditional folk music, modern rock music and world music.

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Renan Luce

Renan Luce (born 5 March 1980, Paris) is a French singer and songwriter.

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Renaud

Renaud Pierre Manuel Séchan, known as Renaud (born 11 May 1952), is a popular French singer, songwriter and actor.

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René-Louis Baron

René-Louis Baron (born February 9, 1944 in Romans-sur-Isère) is a French inventor, author and songwriter.

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Richard Anthony (singer)

Richard Anthony, born Ibrahim Richard Btesh (13 January 1938 – 19 April 2015), was a French singer from Cairo, Egypt.

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Roch Voisine

Joseph Armand Roch Voisine, (born 26 March 1963) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, actor, and radio and television host who lives in Montreal, Quebec and Paris, France.

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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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Rodolphe Salis

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Romantic music

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Roots revival

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Saintonge

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Salut les copains (radio program)

Salut les copains was a famous French variety pop music radio program broadcast between 1959 and 1969, from Monday to Friday for 2 hours (5 to 7 pm) on French radio station Europe 1.

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Salvatore Adamo

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Sega (genre)

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Selah Sue

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Serge Gainsbourg

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Serialism

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Sheila (singer)

Sheila (born Annie Chancel, 16 August 1945) is a French pop singer who became successful as a solo artist in the 1960s and 1970s, also was part of the duo Sheila & Ringo with her husband singer Ringo.

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Sheila and B. Devotion

Sheila and B. Devotion (also credited as Sheila B. Devotion, Sheila and the Black Devotion or S.B. Devotion) was a disco group fronted by French singer Sheila between 1977 and 1980.

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Shoegazing

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Shy'm

Tamara Marthe (born 28 November 1985), better known as Shy'm, is a French singer.

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Snow on the Sahara (song)

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Sonerien Du

Sonerien Du is a group of Breton music adapted for the dances in Fest Noz.

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Sonneur

A sonneur – or, in Breton, soner (plural: sonerien) – is a player of traditional music in Brittany: i.e., someone who plays the bombarde, biniou (Breton bagpipe), or clarinet; as distinct from a kaner, or traditional singer.

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Soule

Soule (Basque: Zuberoa; Zuberoan Basque: Xiberoa or Xiberua; Gascon: Sola) is a former viscounty and French province and part of the present day Pyrénées-Atlantiques département.

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Southern Basque Country

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Space disco

Space disco is the fusion of disco music with futuristic themes, sounds and visuals, a genre that became popular in the late 1970s.

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Spectacle

In general, spectacle refers to an event that is memorable for the appearance it creates.

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Spectral music

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Stardust (band)

Stardust were a one-time musical collaborative effort consisting of producers Thomas Bangalter, Alan Braxe, and vocalist Benjamin Diamond.

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Supernature (song)

"Supernature" is the title track of Cerrone's 1977 album, Supernature (Cerrone III).

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Suprême NTM

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Suzanne Robert

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Sylvie Vartan

Sylvie Vartan (born Sylvie Georges Vartanian; 15 August 1944) is a Bulgarian-French singer and actress.

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Sympathetic string

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Synth-pop

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Téléphone

Téléphone was a French rock band formed in 1976 by Jean-Louis Aubert (singer/guitarist), Louis Bertignac (guitarist/singer), Corine Marienneau (bass/singer) and Richard Kolinka (drums).

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Télépopmusik

Télépopmusik is a French electronic music trio, composed of Fabrice Dumont (bassist of the pop band Autour de Lucie), Stephan Haeri (also known as "2 square" for his solo projects), and Christophe Hetier.

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Têtes Raides

Têtes Raides is a French folk rock group.

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Techno

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Teen idol

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Théodore Claude Henri, vicomte Hersart de la Villemarqué

Théodore Claude Henri, vicomte Hersart de la Villemarqué (7 July 1815 – 8 December 1895) was a French philologist and man of letters.

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Thomas Bangalter

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Thrash metal

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Time signature

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Tino Rossi

Constantin "Tino" Rossi (29 April 1907 – 26 September 1983) was a French singer and film actor.

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Tragédie en musique

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Tristan Murail

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Troubadour

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Trouvère

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Trust (French band)

Trust was a French heavy metal band founded in 1977 and popular in Europe in the first half of the 1980s.

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TTC (band)

TTC is a French hip hop group from Paris.

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Tu trouveras

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Tud

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University of French Polynesia

The University of French Polynesia (Université de la Polynésie française) is a French University located in Punaauia, Tahiti, French Polynesia, France.

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University of Paris III: Sorbonne Nouvelle

The New Sorbonne University (French: Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, also known as Paris III) is a public university in Paris, France.

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Upper Brittany

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Vanessa Paradis

Vanessa Chantal Paradis (born 22 December 1972) is a French singer-songwriter, musician, actress and model.

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Vendée

The Vendée is a department in the Pays-de-la-Loire region in west-central France, on the Atlantic Ocean.

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Versailles (band)

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Veuze

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Village People

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Vincent Delerm

Vincent Delerm (born 31 August 1976) is a French singer-songwriter, pianist and composer.

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Vlad Tepes (band)

Vlad Tepes was a French black metal band which was formed in Brest in 1993.

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Volume!

Volume! The French journal of popular music studies (subtitled in French:La revue des musiques populaires - The journal of popular music studies) is a biannual (May and November) peer-reviewed academic journal "dedicated to the study of contemporary popular music".

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Vorkreist

Vorkreist is a French death/black metal band, based in Paris, who share members with the black metal bands Antaeus and Hell Militia.

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Windward Caribbean Kulture

The WCK Band (Windward Caribbean Kulture) was formed in 1988 in Dominica.

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Words (F. R. David song)

"Words" is a 1981 song by F. R. David.

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World Creole Music Festival

The World Creole Music Festival (WCMF) is an annual three-day music festival hosted on the island of Dominica during the final weekend in October, as a conclusion to Creole heritage month.

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Xirula

The xirula (spelled chiroula in French, also pronounced txirula, (t)xülüla in Zuberoan Basque; Gascon: flabuta; French: galoubet) is a small three holed woodwind instrument or flute usually made of wood akin to the Basque txistu or three-hole pipe, but more high pitched and strident, tuned to D/G and an octave higher than the silbote.

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Yann Tiersen

Yann Tiersen (born 23 June 1970) is a French musician and composer.

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Yann-Fañch Kemener

Yann-Fañch Kemener (born April 7, 1957) is a traditional singer from Brittany, born in Sainte-Tréphine (Côtes-d'Armor), France.

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Yé-yé

Yé-yé was a style of pop music that emerged from Italy, France, Switzerland, Spain, and Portugal in the early 1960s.

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Yvette Guilbert

Yvette Guilbert (20 January 1865 – 3 February 1944) was a French cabaret singer and actress of the Belle Époque.

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Yvette Horner

Yvette Horner (22 September 1922 – 11 June 2018) was a French accordionist known for performing with the Tour de France during the 1950s and 1960s.

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Yyrkoon (band)

Yyrkoon is a French death metal band.

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Zaz (singer)

Isabelle Geffroy (born 1 May 1980 in Tours, France), better known by the nickname Zaz, is a French singer-songwriter who mixes jazzy styles, French variety, soul and acoustic.

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Zazie

Zazie (born Isabelle Marie Anne de Truchis de Varennes, 18 April 1964) is a French singer, songwriter, and former fashion model.

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Zeuhl

Zeuhl is a style of progressive rock that originated in France in the 1960s.

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666 (Aphrodite's Child album)

666 (The Apocalypse of John, 13/18) is a double album by psychedelic/progressive rock group Aphrodite's Child, released in 1972.

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References

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

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