The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. While it’s easy to group foreign language music into a genre of its own, within ...
None other than Lady Gaga showed up on the banks of the Seine river during the 2024 Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony with a rousing rendition of Zizi Jeanmaire's "Mon Truc en Plumes." This isn't the ...
Classical vocal music—whether opera, arias, choral, or art song—can be an acquired taste. I wouldn’t call myself a devotee, but sometimes new classical vocal recordings really captivate me. Two such ...
Powered by TikTok, the song Je te laisseai des mots by Quebecer Patrick Watson has become the first French-language song to surpass 1 billion listens on Spotify, the streaming platform announced ...
In World War I, France’s favorite song was the lilting Madelon. The first seven months of World War II produced no successor. One try, Victoire, Daughter of Madelon, was a by-blow which died aborning.