Brigitte Fontaine

Brigitte Fontaine, born in 1940 in Morlaix, Finistère, in the Brittany region of France, is a singer of avant-garde music from the 1970s, known almost exclusively in her native France.

During the course of her care

Brigitte Fontaine, born in 1940 in Morlaix, Finistère, in the Brittany region of France, is a singer of avant-garde music from the 1970s, known almost exclusively in her native France.

During the course of her career she employed numerous unusual musical styles, melding rock and roll, folk, jazz, spoken word poetry and world rhythms. She collaborated with such celebrated musicians as Serge Gainsbourg, Jean Claude Vannier, Areski, Sonic Youth and Art Ensemble of Chicago.