En Duo: Etienne & Charlotte

The versatile Etienne Daho (born in Oran, Algeria) had his peakmoment in the eighties, when he was France's king of pop and easily sold out the famous Paris Olympia for more than a week. His star faded a little after that - which gave him the opportunity to experiment, like recording an album with Britband St.Etienne in 1995. That album was called Reserection, and was a reaction to allegations that he suffered from hiv. The album was a huge hit, He's on the Phone from that album became a hit abroad. Daho even appeared in Top of the Pops along Oasis and David Bowie. To quote RFI Musique: "Perhaps the secret of Etienne Daho's success was best summed up by author Hervé Guibert in an article published in Le Monde (on July 5 1984). "Daho's success is certainly not due to chance," wrote Guibert, "it stems from the fact that this young singer is essentially a man of his time."

If, his duet with Charlotte Gainsbourg from 2003, is a rerecording of an older song. Daho has been compared with Serge numerous times, and when you hear the wordplay in the lyrics, you can tell why. See a snippet of the beautiful video here. TV5 has a live-performance of the song.

Etienne Daho & Charlotte Gainsbourg - If
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