Oh dear, I'm not good in calculating... I won't evaluate somebody like Barbara this way, it's simply the whole thing that makes it (how would you do that for Cohen? I couldn't. I was first "caught" by the music, too, but now I wouldn't split it up.). The songs are different and so is the q...

Hi Marcel, you can find lots of lyrics of Barbara (and others) at
http://www.paroles.net

I hope this will help.

Try with "le soleil noir", "la solitude"...

But Barbara, that's definitely not only the lyrics!

Greetings,
nila

patience Antonio...
I ordered a disc on your recommandation 3 weeks ago, still havn't recieved it... So I'm ashamed, I do not at all know her yet.

I understood what you mean. I agree with you. It's not, of course, a question of value.

"We are not all born equals. "

That's for sure true... I agree with you. Lasts the question if personality and tenacity are necessarily combined with real talent... I'm not so sure about that.

Very pleased you like my work.

Well, in any case I'd say it's more azzardo than will. But that's life... Surely you can increase your chances if you have the will and the power, but there is no guarantee that that will be enough.

I think there's much, perhaps essentially gioco d'azzardo in these things, and there are without any doubt great artists (perhaps the best ones) no one ever heard about. How would you know! Concerning arts as contemporary painting etc. I can say from my experience that the people that are successful...

of course translations are a great thing if they're done serieusly, I'm the first who will agree with you about this! But it can never be the same, as you say, that's impossible. I don't know any translation of Brel, neighter in German nor in English, who keeps really as close as possible to the ori...

yes indeed... as a German who is anyways very familiar to French (much more than to English… I apologize for all the faults that there may be in my postings, I wouldn’t notice them…), I would not be able to give a definitive translation for "à mourir pour mourir"... but I think that even f...

YESSSSS!
Vive Léo!!!!
of course I know this DVD...
and the interview, I have an old radio cut.
Greetings,
Nila

As a great fan of french chanson whose disc collection started with Brel (I’ve got all of Brel, Barbara, Brassens and many others), I wonder why nobody named here Léo Ferré, the greatest French chansonnier ever… A french friend who loves Ferré played me some of Cohen’s songs, I immediately bought al...