Zaz: Jazz Manouche French Singer

French Female Singers

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Zaz: Jazz Manouche French Singer

Update: Congratulations to Zaz, winner of Song of the Year for “Je Veux” at Les Victoires de la Musique 2011!!

French music critics are easily excitable, and they get REALLY excited about artists who revive or carry on traditional forms of music. The Female French singer Zaz (Isabelle Geffroy) is one such artist, and you can’t walk into a FNAC these days without tripping over a display for her debut, self-titled album of Jazz Manouche and Chanson Française.

Carmen Maria Vega: Gypsy Swing

If you like Zaz, you’ll enjoy today’s video. It’s more French Jazz Manouche — this time from Carmen Maria Vega.

French Coffee with Karimouche

Karimouche is a whimsical, multitalented French female singer. Part chanteuse, part rapper, and part slam poet, her songs incorporate her wide-ranging of influences of Hip Hop, Reggae, Pop and traditional French chanson. Subscribers to my newsletter have already sampled some music from this playful French artist.

Karimouche is a portmanteau of vocalist Carima Amarouche’s first and last name, and also the name of her band, which includes keyboardist Jean-Pierre Caporossi and human beat box Kosh. Carima herself is of Moroccan descent (she sings in Berber and French) and grew up in a housing project in Lyon, France. Her background includes theater, costume design, and dance.