France’s most-streamed pop star — now fully independent — continues to challenge conventions and captivate audiences around the globe.

Despite a life marked by personal tragedies, she became an international star and remains a cultural icon of French music. La Vie en rose (1947) is a love song about how romance makes life feel ...

Imagine that six musicians, skilled in historic performance on period instruments and wanting to curate a program of French Renaissance music, spend a week together. What might result? For ...

A young Cuban woman has taken social media by storm after a video of her performing an emotionally charged song, in flawless French and a capella, went viral. The recording captures a night on a ...

Released on a 78 rpm single in 1937, this song – co-written by guitar genius Reinhardt with French violinist Stephane Grappelli – epitomized the stomping gypsy jazz style that set Europe ...