{"id":16136,"date":"2017-01-01T13:38:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T19:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16136"},"modified":"2018-04-19T07:15:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T12:15:21","slug":"guess-brians-favorite-french-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/01\/guess-brians-favorite-french-singer\/","title":{"rendered":"Guess Brian&#8217;s Favorite French Singer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know, gentle reader, I have a growing collection of Spanish songbirds, including classic artists like Roc\u00edo Jurado, Roc\u00edo D\u00farcal, Claudia Acu\u00f1a, and others as well as pop equivalents Shakira and Paulina Rubio.  I&#8217;ve also picked up a small collection of singers in Portuguese, such as Astrud Gilberto, Beth Carvalho, and Gal Costa, amongst others.<\/p>\n<p>So, Brian J., you ask, what about women who sing in French?  Who is your favorite French songstress?<\/p>\n<p>Well, gentle reader, you know I like the breathy styling of Erin Bode, and I&#8217;m also a big fan of Herb Alpert.  What about Claudine Longet, whom Alpert signed to his A&#038;M Records back in the day and who married Andy Williams in the 1960s?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4_ZtwNZh5Wc?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, not really.  French is a breathy language, and the breathy singing amplifies it instead of complementing it.<\/p>\n<p>What about the new hotness Aliz\u00e9e?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XPDEqUnNulg?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s the same breathy vocals atop a breathy language, but this time laid over more modern pop vocals.<\/p>\n<p>No, friends, my current favorite French artist is Mireille Mathieu, who can be breathy at times but mostly sounds folk rockish, like a 70s era Linda Ronstadt or Olivia Newton John, but in French.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2NXrhcbpiV0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Which is a good thing, since I bought a bunch of her records <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/18\/good-album-hunting-christmas-shopping-december-16-17-2016\/\" target=\"_new\">two weeks ago<\/a>.  Also, she is the last French singer I have purchased, and I tend to regard the most recent shiny object most highly.<\/p>\n<p>All right, you probably never wondered who my favorite French singer is, but there you go.<\/p>\n<p>What, I&#8217;m leaving you hanging on the Spanish and Brazilian singers?  It&#8217;s because I cannot decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may know, gentle reader, I have a growing collection of Spanish songbirds, including classic artists like Roc\u00edo Jurado, Roc\u00edo D\u00farcal, Claudia Acu\u00f1a, and others as well as pop equivalents Shakira and Paulina Rubio. I&#8217;ve also picked up a small collection of singers in Portuguese, such as Astrud Gilberto, Beth Carvalho, and Gal Costa, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19748,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16136\/revisions\/19748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}