Category: Song by genre

Marie-Louise Damien , known as Damia or Maryse Damia , is a French singer and actress born on December 5 , 1889in the 13 th arrondissement of Paris and died on January 30 , 1978at La Celle-Saint-Cloud 1 . Renowned for her songs and tragic roles, she is very famous in the 1930s .

Daughter of Workers is a song by Jules Jouy written in 1898 on music by Gustave Goublier , conductor at Eldorado and Folies Bergère . She describes the condition of the workers , from their youngest age to their death, evoking hard work, lack of money, rape , prostitution , and final lapse.

Marguerite Boulc’h , known as Frehel , born in Paris , at number 2 boulevard Bessières , the July 13 , 1891 and died in that same city on February 3 , 1951, is a singer who marked the period between the wars .

Yvonne Knops , better known by his artist name Yvonne George , is a singer, performer and actress feminist Belgian, born in 1896 in Liege ( Belgium ) and died in 1930 in Genoa ( Italy ).

Passe-Pipe (sometimes improperly spelled without dash and / or lowercase 1 ) is a group briochin music founded in 1990 by Louis-Pierre Guinard and Philippe Onfray, quickly joined by Daniel Riot 2 . The group then joined Gil Riot and Tonio Marinescu at the end of 1991, then Christophe Menguy and Christophe Lecouflet at the end of 1994, and finally Daniel Pabœuf in 1997. …

Aristide Bruant , born Aristide Louis Armand Bruand on May 6 , 1851in Courtenay in the Loiret and died on February 11 , 1925in Paris , is a singer and writer French . His popular songs, his stage presence, his hoarse and powerful voice, and his stature have made him a monument to French realistic song. It is considered one of the greatest poets of the slang of the late xix th century and beginning of the xx th century.

Alain Brice (Alain Bris, born onDecember 2, 1948 in Bordeaux, deceased in 2002) is a French composer-songwriter. He is the composer of the song ” Ma Gonzesse ” by Renaud . His greatest success as an interpreter is “And I think it’s love” (1979) from his album “Et d’un!”

Léon Auguste Albert Drouin de Bercy says Leon de Bercy , born on December 10 , 1857in Belleville (today Paris ) 1 and died on July 31 , 1915in the 18 th arrondissementof Paris 2 , is a singer-songwriter French.

The realistic song is a musical genre appeared in France at the beginning of the xx th century , and popularized during the interwar period by mainly female performers like Frehel , Damia or Edith Piaf . The recurring themes of his songs deal with dramatic subjects marked by a certain darkness, often inspired by the everyday life of the Parisian neighborhoods . Their characters are generally prisoners of their misery, of …