the French President's wife whose name I have forgotten

Carla Bruni[-Sarkozy]

Danke.

Uh uh uh, en français.

Mylène Farmer



She's performed with INXS and Moby too, in French.

Edith Piaf of course

Zaz

Ladyhawke did a Fench version of Paris is Burning



I think she wrote it when visiting the French singer Soko, who has had hits in English but maybe did some French ones too.

I don't think Soko has done French recordings, in fact she sings one of the only English songs on Nouvelle Vague's album "Couleur Sur Paris" but that album and their album "The Singers" has lots of fench singers/songs on it.

Camille

Madeleine Peyroux, I think has done mostly English too but some French.

Vanessa Paradis, Mrs Johnny Depp

I think she was like 15 when she did this:



With Albin de la Simone:



Albin de la Simone

Amélie-Les-Crayons

This is a rapper my brother likes too. MC Solaar:

Nina Simone sang this one:



It has been done by Edith Piaf as well and was originally recorded by Jacques Brel who was Belgian but Francophone (despite being of Flemish descent.)

Abd al Malik is another rapper. He's of Congolese descent.

He's married to an R&B singer, Wallen.

Superbus

Some Sébastien Tellier stuff

Bumcello

This one Feist song



I suppose there'd be loads of Canadians who sing in French.

This one should really interest you if you don't know him already. Nigerian-born French singer Féfé.

And even though she's almost as naff as Celine Dion, I can't not mention Tina Arena because she got her start on this TV show called Young Talent Time 30 years ago and it just started up on TV again and she'll be a judge and I was half watching it while posting the first few videos here. Anyway, she went to France and became ridiculously popular and just got whatever the equivalent of knighted is over there. She also self-invited herself to sing Advance Australia Fair when Cadel Evans won the Tour de France.

Serge Gainsbourg, obviously

I just heard something extraordinary on the radio: a French blues duo called Mountain Men, singing Jacques Brel's Les Marquises. Unbelievable, no less.
Not found on Youtube unfortunately, but there is this video of another Brel song, Ces gens la:

(crappy recording, 1st half of song is cut etc)
They seem to sing mostly in English though, short samples on their website.

Brel's original Les Marquises:

sweet i just started learning french

Shoot. There are a lot of videos in here. You'll have to give me some time to get through them. :)

And no, I don't know of Féfé but thanks, I'm really enjoying him.

I'm re-learning Aaron and something I've learned over the years that listening to music in the language you're trying to learn, as well as printing off lyrics and translating them, is a really good way to learn.