12 French Singers You Should Listen To So You Can Learn French

French singers are great, but do you know French-Canadian singers? Coeur de Pirate is a French-Canadian singer-songwriter and pianist. She attended the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal for 5 years. Her first album came out in 2008, her second in 2011, her third in 2015. She released her 6th studio album, Impossible à aimer, in 2021. Her folk-pop musical style often expresses her various personal issues from love to her personal values. She has won numerous awards from the Juno Awards and the GALA l’ADISQ.

This artist is one of the most famous French singers. This singer, songwriter, cabaret performer and actress is known for her songs La Vie en rose (1946), Non, je ne regrette rien (1960), and many more. She had a very interesting and sad life: she was abandoned by her mother at her birth, she lived with her grandmother in Normandy who owned a brothel, she was blind from the age of 3-7 years old and her only daughter died at age two. Her singing career really started in 1935 when she performed in nightclubs but it really increased during the German occupation in France. She died of liver cancer in 1963 after numerous addictions and alcohol abuse.

Christine and the Queens is the stage name of Héloïse Letissier. This French singer, songwriter and producer’s career started in 2012 with two EPs Miséricorde and Mac Abbey. She was the opening act of Lykke Li, Woodkid, and many more. Her first album, Chaleur humaine, came out in 2014 won her 2 awards out of 5 at the Victoires de la musique awards. Her sound is a mix of pop, synth-pop, art-pop, electropop and freak-pop. Her song iT was featured on HBO’s hit television show Girls.