• Charles Chanson (1902–1951) was the Commander of the French-Indo-Chinese forces in southern Vietnam during the First Indochina War. Born on 18 February...
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  • influence from French chanson singer Édith Piaf. "Hair" is a song about expressing freedom through one's hair. The song has a dance-pop melody, yet it...
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    Mikhail Shufutinsky (category Russian chanson)
    currently the pre-eminent singer of Russian chanson music. He was awarded the title of Meritorious Artist of Russia in 2013. Shufutinsky was born on 13 April...
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  • popular music have seen the rise of the chanson and cabaret style. The oldest playable musical recordings were made in France using the earlist known sound...
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    which reached No. 5 in the U.S. and No. 6 in Britain. He has won three Grammy Awards and two Emmy Awards. He played Leo Markus, the husband of Grace Adler...
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    Diseases of the Skin: Clinical Dermatology (10th ed.). Saunders. ISBN 0-7216-2921-0. Melmed S, Casanueva FF, Klibanski A, Bronstein MD, Chanson P, Lamberts...
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    Édith Piaf (category Alcohol-related deaths in France)
    cabaret and modern chanson genres. She is widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer and one of the most celebrated performers of the 20th century...
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    Yvette Guilbert (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Demi-vieilles) were published. In the 1920s, there appeared her instructional book L'art de chanter une chanson (The art of singing a Song). She also conducted...
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    Oleg Gazmanov (category Russian chanson)
    covered by others in the Russian chanson style, such as Mikhail Shufutinsky. He is also a Candidate for Master of Sport of the USSR in gymnastics and is...
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    as a soloist on their 2014 release Illuminations singing "La Chanson de Mardi Gras". Hozier played at the Oxegen 2009 and Oxegen 2010 festivals. In 2012...
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  • The Eurovision Song Contest (French: Concours Eurovision de la chanson), often known simply as Eurovision, is an international song competition organised...
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    pas choisir entre chanson française et pop-music anglaise"". Franceinfo (in French). Retrieved 21 February 2021. "Christine and the Queens, nouvelle reine...
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    Joe Dassin (category French-language singers of the United States)
    le roman de sa vie (France 3) – Le destin singulier d'une l'icône de la chanson française". Télé 7 Jours. Telestar.fr (21 August 2015). "Joe Dassin : le...
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    (1888) À Louis II de Bavière (1888) Parallèlement (1889) Dédicaces (1890) Femmes (1890) Hombres (1891) Bonheur (1891) Mes hôpitaux (1891) Chansons pour...
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    Enrico Macias (category Official website not in Wikidata)
    also born that year. In spring 1964, he opened for Les Compagnons de la chanson at the Paris Olympia and then undertook a successful tour of the Middle...
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  • Boka (singer) (category Russian chanson)
    music album in Yerevan. During the Soviet years, he became a very popular soloist with Armenian rabiz, Caucasian, and Russian chanson lovers. In his albums...
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  • (1962). The song reached number 2 on the U.S. R&B singles chart and number 11 on the pop chart when released as a single on Atco Records in 1962. In Europe...
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    Juliette Gréco (category French expatriate actresses in the United States)
    2006: La Chanson de Prévert : written and composed by Serge Gainsbourg. 2009: Le Déserteur: written and composed by Boris Vian. 1947: The Bouquinquant...
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    Serge Gainsbourg (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    opinion. His artistic output ranged from his early work in jazz, chanson, and yé-yé to later efforts in rock, zouk, funk, reggae, and electronica. Gainsbourg's...
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    It is one of the longest of all the chansons de geste. Other, later versions of the chanson range from 14,300 to 28,000 verses. Of the dozen extant versions...
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  • as being a one-hit wonder in the U.S. Numerous artists listed here have reached the Top 40 on the US Billboard Hot 100 more than once. The year indicates...
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  • Magazine (in Slovak). FF company. Archived from the original on July 17, 2012. Retrieved October 27, 2014. The Queen of Czechoslovak chanson has a 'Mill Wheel'...
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    Paris Combo (category Articles lacking in-text citations from March 2020)
    early 20th century chansons, including those by Damia, Fréhel, Marianne Oswald and Arletty, in a punk-influenced style. Among the group members were drummer...
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    Pia Mia (redirect from I'm a Fan)
    November 6, 2015. "I'm a Fan". iTunes. May 26, 2017. Retrieved November 16, 2017. "WILL.I.AM FEAT. PIA MIA - BOYS & GIRLS (CHANSON)". Les Charts. "WILL...
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    while her father left for the United States. In 1984, at the age of 10, she recorded her first song in France, La Chanson des Klaxons and three years...
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  • Lara's Theme (category Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Chorus)
    copies) and the French group Les Compagnons de la chanson (nearly 300,000 sold), and all versions sold a total of over a million copies in France. In Italy...
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    Couleurs du temps 1975: Il fait beau à Paris (compilation with previously unreleased materials) 1976: Chansons de notre temps et d'espérance 1977: Futur-...
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    Willi Tokarev (category Russian chanson)
    old at the time of his death. Tokarev was a multiple winner of Radio Chanson's Chanson of the Year Award, the final time being in 2014. "The New Emigration"...
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    Doillon, Lou (12 June 2012). "Lou Doillon Connaît la Chanson" (interview). Next.Liberation.fr (in French). Retrieved 16 July 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint:...
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    "Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to the Sultan of Constantinople" as an insert in the "Chanson du mal aimé" poem of his Alcools collection. In turn, this...
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