French music, anyone?

MayKat

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Hello!

I'm looking for some nice, calm French music with a lot of ukulele involved. But right now I can only find mediocre covers of songs across the net. Does anyone know of any bands or musicians who are like this? French, ukulele players? I guess it's an odd combination, but I love French music and I love the ukulele, so the two together is WOW, to me.

Thanks for any help!
 
Try the music of Victoria Vox. She is an American (I believe) who plays the uke and sings some of her songs in French....
 
he dosen't play ukulele but i love me some Garou. That and this on are some of my favorites:l'adieu

I couldn't find it on youtube but one of his songs was the one my wife and I danced to at our wedding.
 
I can recommend this site: http://www.francetabs.com

I learned to play Aux Champs Elysées by Joe Dassin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6jkmSbM98s
Chords here: http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/j/joe_dassin/les_champs-elysees_crd.htm

and Les Comédiens by Charles Aznavour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP8faMc4zMc
This here is a guitar video but it's easy to adapt to ukulele (C Am F G7, in last part of the verse C E7 Am D7 G7 / C Am F6 G7)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRewGdVVBd8

I like Albin de la Simone but don't know how to play the songs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-IAmX22IRY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDRugYeVr8Q

And Vincent Delerm:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ_wPrGjEGQ

For some French classics chords are available and seem relatively easy to play, let me know what you think:
Alain Souchon - La Vie ne vaut rien
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xp2n1_la-vie-ne-vaut-rien_music

Joe Dassin - La Fleur aux Dents
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxowKfULCW8
Lundi au Soleil - originally by Claude Francois whose dancing is hilarious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnznpeeb4ls
but singing is much better by Keren Ann and Vincent Delerm here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B93SUkJtG8o
 
3emegauche, who have a Youtube channel, have LOTS of acoustic music. There is a handful of ukulele, but it's not hard to find. And the vast majority is French.
 
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