I'm French, French, from Marseille.

Biggest artist right now over here is Jean Jacques GOLDMAN, great songwriter, awesome lyricist, check some of his songs out (I guess you've heard him, he wrote for Celine DION)

Francis CABREL comes close in second, great melodies, but influenced by canadian music, so just check him out for his lyrics, he's the closest we have to a poet.

We have some traditional bands, one from Corsica, I MUVRINI, they do some vocal harmonies, they have done a song with sting, pretty good...Another one is DAN AR BRAZ, it's celtic music...

I couldn't forget Georges BRASSENS, probably 98% of french singers owe him something. One of them is RENAUD, the singer with an attitude...

Also, we love to claim Django REINDHART was french, even though he wasn't. Stephane GRAPELLI was though, check out their music with the "quintet du hot club de France"...