She sings in her wistful French way about heartbreak, lost love and loneliness, but Francoiz Breut says all she can see are reasons to be cheerful. She spoke with Craig Doolan. Via an interpreter, ...

Françoiz Breut didn't set out to launch a new wave of French music, but the alluring chanteuse has been at the forefront of a cool, cosmopolitan movement known as nouvelle chanson. Since the late ...

The evocative singing of Francoiz Breut has been heralded as a reinvention of the French popular song form, writes Anthony Carew. The evocative singing of Francoiz Breut has been heralded as a ...

Passionate, gamine, sultry ... this Gaul lives up to every "French songstrel" cliche in the book. Bernard Zuel falls for her charms. FRANCOIZ BREUT Metro Theatre, 624 George Street, city Thursday, 8pm ...

Francoiz Breut travels light. On her Australian tour she's bringing guitarist Boris Gronemberger, a picture of her two children, and a ring that she wears as a charm, "so that everything goes well".

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At a performance early in December at Tokyo's L'Institut Francais, two French singers -- Francoiz Breut and Jeanne Cherhal -- demonstrated different approaches to French pop for the new millennium.

Françoiz Breut follows the great European tradition of the chanteuse: a lounge singer that doesn't waste a single syllable when it comes to ...

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What did you do on Valentines Day? Dinner at a nice restaurant? A smoochy night in? Well, 600 hundred people in Perth are raving about the magical evening they spent with the French Queen of ...

The Cherbourg chanteuse Françoiz Breut began her musical career as a backup singer for her then-boyfriend, the songwriter Dominique A, but has since emerged from his shadow as an influential Nouvelle ...