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Just wandering if there are any music lovers out there who are interested in French and/or Italian artists?

Cinq Fois Deux, a brilliant recent French film features quite a few Italian songs, like Bobby Solo's 'Una Lacrima Sul Viso' which I absolutely love. lol.

My collection is canny small, lol, but here is a list of the songs I have:

Bobby Solo - Una Lacrima Sul Viso

Kyo & Sita - Le Chemin

Khaled - Aicha

Notre Dame - Garou-Belle

Toto Cotugno - L'Italiano

Domenico Modugno - Volare

and, a couple of Eros Ramazotti songs

Is there anybody who can recommend some French or Italian songs to me? I like all kinds of genres and dont mind how old the songs are.

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There are so many styles.

My preference is the self-accompanied singer presenting his own ballads. If that works for you then the obvious names to check out would be Felix LeClerc, Georges Brassens, Gilles Vigneault, Jaques Brel, Robert Charlebois. If you enjoy folk music, perhaps La Botine Souriante, or Dan Ar Braz who can do things with a hurdy-gurdy that few others can approach.

If they don't work for you, what style would be closer to your preference?

My particular love is classical baroque - especially Handel.

It's only a fairly tenuous link to Italy, I know, but Handel produced both his 'Almira' and 'Nero' operas there and, while in Rome, became friends with Scarlatti.

I have a recording of Handel's arias sung in Italian by the great British tenor Robert White and can listen to 'The Messiah' year round!

Have you ever listened to Rufus Wainwright? He has the most beautiful voice! He sings a lot of songs in French and some in English, but the French songs are my favourite. Listen to him if you can.....he's fab!

Rapunzel wrote: Have you ever listened to Rufus Wainwright? He has the most beautiful voice! He sings a lot of songs in French and some in English, but the French songs are my favourite. Listen to him if you can.....he's fab!


Thanks! I will.

Wow, thanx 4 all the help so far...

Since y'all seem to be quite clued up, maybe you can help me out further...

I have been looking for a song for a while, its french, and sung by a man... It's a passionate ballad, called Pépé, about a man's pet monkey, its a beautiful song but I dont know who sang it

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Tell me Saz - this might be it - the lyrics of this piece, as best I can express them in English...

to be pépé it is a trade. A trade alambiqué to be pépé it is a trade. Is necessary all to know and is not necessary to be mistaken is not to give to the last born to become beautiful pépé I am the king of pépés, the king of pépés it is moé When Robie is tired, it needs the pépé sound, and ouaih Which it is which can tell the stories which make it dream, eh eh When Lucie is depressed, who is necessary it for him one is pépé, eh eh It is me the king of pépés, the king of pépés, the eh eh eh the king of pépés, it is me the king of pépés Eh eh, it is moé Eh eh eh eh eh, eh eh to repeat to me, to be pépé it is a trade, a alambiqué trade, eh eh I will say even more than it is a trade Faut all to know, is not necessary for it to be mistaken, eh eh I am the king of pépés the king of pépés, the king of pépés the ah! The king of pépés, the king of pépés it is moé Eh eh, it is moé Eh eh eh eh eh, eh eh eh eh eh It is me the king of pépés Eh eh eh eh eh the king of pépés|Eh eh eh eh eh I am the king of pépés|Eh eh eh eh eh... pépé during the insipid ones!

Or is it a different track you're looking for?

I don't know...

The song I'm looking for is deffinately about a man's pet monkey...

It's quite firey and passionate and the singer's voice is almost a shout at one point, but 'Pépé' his monkey's name is always sung softly, at the end of a wild rant if you like.



I probably sound crazy to you, but I study French, and my teacher actually had the class listen to the song and he told us about it, then we translated it.

For the life of me I can't remember who sang it...

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