Ray Ventura

Ray Ventura was a French jazz pianist and bandleader.
He helped popularize jazz in France in the thirties.

In 1929, with Collegians Paul Misraki and Loulou Gasté, he recorded his first album, followed by a series of the dance orchestra concerts in Paris, then tours throughout France.

He opened his cabaret on the Champs-Élysées in 1936, the year of the release of : Tout Va Très Bien Madame La Marquise.

Charles Trenet

Charles Trenet was a renowned French singer-songwriter who composed both the music and the lyrics for nearly 1,000 songs over a career that lasted more than 60 years.
He met Louis Armstrong and began a long-lasting friendship with Charlie Chaplin.

In 1936 when Trenet was called up for national service. after performing this, he received the nickname that he would retain all his life: “Le Fou chantant” (The Singing Madman).
He began his solo career in 1937, recording for Columbia, his first disc being “Je chante/Fleur bleue“.

His greatest hits include: Y’A D’La Joie (1937), Ménilmontant (1938), Douce France written in 1943 and published in 1947, La Mer (1945), L’Âme des Poètes (1951), Nationale 7 , a tribute to the introduction of summer paid holidays (1955).