[Avex]

any recommendations, especially soulful (and female) voices.

[cyberfruit]

Man, we listen to a lot of French soul and R&B in my French class. If you wouldn't mind waiting, I'll ask my French teacher for you.

[Leo_Dragon]

any recommendations, especially soulful (and female) voices.

You might wanna check out Luminescence by Anggun and Un Autre Univers by Tina Arena. They are excellent French-language albums.

[Childlike Faith]

Hehe, we listen to French songs in my French class too. I love them.

Axelle Red - Je Pense a Toi
Celine Dion - Je Chanterai
Francoise Hardy - Tous Les Garcons et Les Filles [old, old song. ]

I'm not sure if you'd call them soulful, but I like them a lot.

[katarina]

Hi everybody ! I'm french and this is another very good french artist : Lara Fabian. If you like Rap music, listen to Diam's, her songs are very funny.

[cyberfruit]

Hehe, we listen to French songs in my French class too. I love them.

Axelle Red - Je Pense a Toi
Celine Dion - Je Chanterai
Francoise Hardy - Tous Les Garcons et Les Filles [old, old song. ]

I'm not sure if you'd call them soulful, but I like them a lot.

You guys listen to Axelle Red? Did you have to listen to Je me fache? It's hilariously Avril Lavigne like.

[rokky123]

Amel Bent
she sings so beautiful

[mnmadi]

can anyone recommend any classic french songs/singers besides Edith Piaf?

[Sky's Crying]

mmm...i don't know much about soulful singers...BUT if you happen to like bossa nova by any chance, you should try out Nouvelle Vague. They're a cover band, french, but mostly sing in english.

Camille & Melanie Pain are good too.

[Elle.]

Leslie, K-Maro, Corneille, Dadoo, PLUME LATRAVERSE (lol)

[laure_choc]

can anyone recommend any classic french songs/singers besides Edith Piaf?

If by classic you mean the ones everyone heard about and know:
Oldies, I would say Jacques Brel (he was belgium, but sang in french), Georges Brassens (but i would recommend you to find lyrics or translation, you loose a lot without the meaning), Henri Salvador, Charles Trenet, Charles Aznavour, Gainsbourg, Joe Dassin, Pierre Perret.

In the 90s (or still now), Jean-Jacques Goldman and Francis Cabrel. Burt i used to listen to songs with lyrics, so i guess it's better if you can understand what they sing. You can look for Florent Pagny too, he tried many different styles, even "opera".

[Knossos]

Patricia Kass (sp?)
Vanessa Paradise
Patrick Bruel
Francois Hardy

I think they are all from 80's and 90's...

[shinhwa_luver1]

oldies: Mireille Mattheiu
new stuff: Julie Reins (she's like..rockish popish she's pretty good)

[J@de]

Anggun
Mylène Farmer
Emilie Simon, awesome songs ¤¤

[pachi_A]

ohh.. well.. i dont realy listen to french music.
but i like this one french artist, who raps.
MC SOLAR

[SkyRunner]

try Les Nubians.

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[a Kismet Moment]

CARLA BRUNI
she's got a soulful soothing voice. soo pretty.
if you want, i can send u the disc online, just pm me or something?

[chibifry]

I dont really know soulful but.. some of my favs

anggun - my favorite french singer. pop & occasional rock mix.
mc solaar - la vie est belle
kmaro - histoire de luv

[Sky's Crying]

franck monnet if you can find anything on him. reminds me of like a french chris martin

[*Mei*]

Vanessa Paradis- Joe Le Taxi
that's a girl ^^ and you can get it the regular version and the remix version