Mary L.

A visitor of this blog emailed me that he refers to les filles sourires as 'Cooing Frenchies', which is a very apt description as well. And very much in place when it comes to Mary L. I have no clue what the L. stands for, the biography doesn't tell - it does state that her dad was in a mythical seventies rockband called Zoo (couldn't find anything on them), and that young pianoplaying Mary was sort of a child prodigy: at eight, she performed at the Bataclan, at ten, she wrote her first compositions. She worked with Veronique Sanson, Cheb Mami and was part of Celtic group Stone Age. With a band called Stereodrome she made her first solo album, Interview, a jazzy, pianodriven and laidback affair. Second album Bossanova (2005), as the title already promises, is a take on breezy bossanova. Working with musicians who also worked with Chico Buarque, Tania Maria and Bebel Gilberto, she recorded 12 sunny songs. One of them is a duet with Helena Noguerra - very much in place, because Bossanova reminds me a lot of Helena's Azul-cd. If you go to Mary L.'s website, you can watch a video of them singing together in the studio.

Mary L. and Helena Noguerra - L'Amour C'est Gratuit
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Mary L. - Les Amants
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