Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

  Jean-Jacques Goldman, one of my great musical loves. I came across him thanks to the French Cultural Centre in Helsinki, where I used to go and borrow vinyls... He has written such great music that it was hard to choose the four songs here. My love for him continued all the way to the end of his recording career (as we know it) and his various projects and songs written and produced to other artists, like Céline Dion whose French success is mainly thanks to him in her adult life, Patricia Kaas and Patrick Fiori. Sadly his last studio album is from 2001 but he's still active somewhat writing and producing, and made an appearance in Fiori's Les gens qu'on aime video. Hopefully he will still release his music as a singer, too. Pretty please? He has had a huge impact in the French music industry and in 2012-2013 for example two tribute albums were recorded by the young talents under title Genération Goldman , both hitting #1 in the French charts and selling about one m...

France may be doing again Destination Eurovision but otherwise a perfect internal choice would be Indila. Even if still a rather new artist all based only on her debut album really - despite many rap collaborations before going solo like L'Algérino's Trinitè , Rohff's Thug mariage and Soprano's Hiro , as well writing songs to other artists like Axel Tony and Matt Pokora -  and its hits she made herself known in various corners of Europe and her style is personal and French enough to stand out. Should she be working on her second album and wanting a major comeback launch, what would be better? Listen to Tourner dans le vide , SOS , Run run and Love story . Below her #1 hit in Greece, Israel and Turkey, #2 in France and Belgium and #3 in Poland....

Tout le monde chant contre le cancer , amega charity event for cancer gathers together 50 artists, two nights each with 3 hours of entertainment takes place in France next month. Among artists several Eurovision veterans like Amandine Bourgeouis, Amaury Vassili, Patrick Fiori and Michele Torr . And there are several names this blogger would love to see on Eurovision stage sometime soon, like M Pokora - presenting his megasuccesful Robin Hood project -, Emmanuel Moire and Florent Mothe . Just to name a few. You can follow the event news here .

Jean-Jacques Goldman is one of this blogger's favorite French artists and the man who did adult Céline Dion in French, so to speak. He hasn't released solo material since 2001 but his music lives on, most recently in France where a tribute album has been released and become the hit of the season, Génération Goldman featuring some big names of the music industry of younger generation, including M Pokora, Shy'm, Emmanuel Moire, Christophe Willem, Amaury Vassili, ZAZ and Baptiste Giabiconi, the world's highest paid male model and Karl Lagerfeld's muse turned into pop singer. It's like a Christmas came early present! Fantastic! What a nice trip back to past and my musical history of the 1980's and 1990's! The covers are nicely kept pretty close to the originals, just with a new voices and maybe slightly updated sounds. For me this is the music event of the year! Here below you can compare the versions and enjoy some great music if you don't his work ...

The French know how to make great charity singles. Often in these cases with dozens of singers the song itself may get lost and the voices just don't blend together well but this Je reprends ma route flows away like a real song and is very good. Besides it's collecting money for charity and children it features Eurovision names like Marie Myriam, Anggun and Gerard Lenorman along with M.Pokora, Jenifer, Emmanuel Moire, Lââm and Julie Zenatti just to name a few. More information here . 

France just has announced its Eurovision artists for 2011 and I'm still speechless. They would have so much to offer like these NRJ Music award winners like Joyce Jonathan , the newcomer of the year. Or Jenifer , the female artist of the year beating names like Shy'm and Mylène Farmer . Or the male artist of the year M Pokora . Or Christophe Mae , David Guetta . Or Christophe Willem . Emmanuel Moire . Or almost anybody.... Mind you the opera guy could turn out to be great but I'm a bit sceptical.... And of course the purpose of this post was just to showcase some of my favourite French singers :-)

They're talking about national selection in France, yet there are rumours of internal selection again. What if France sent another internationally succesful act, like Bob Sinclair or David Guetta. I'm personally dreaming of Jeanne Mas, Myléne Farmer, Alizée, Elsa, Vanessa Paradis, Roch Voisine and such but the chances are very slim. So here's a trio of male singers that I think would suit the job well: Emmanuel Moire, Christophe Maé and M.Pokora! Emmanuel Moire already did Sopot festival last year reaching second place. Did that wet his appetite to try the real thing? His also free from his duties as Louis XIV in the musical Le roi soleil he did from 2004 to 2007 and ready to publish his second album. Check him out here: http://www.emmanuelmoire.com/ Christophe Maé also made himself famous in the same musical playing Maestro. He released his first solo album in 2007 and it topped the French album charts and gave birth to 4 hit singles selling over 1,5 million copies. He w...