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A chanson (French pronunciation: [ʃɑ̃sɔ̃], "song", from Latin cantio) is in general any lyric-driven French song, usually polyphonic and secular. A singer specialising in chansons is known as a "chanteur" (male) or "chanteuse" (female); a collection of chansons, especially from the late Middle Ages and Renaissance, is also known as a chansonnier.
The earliest chansons were the epic poems performed to simple monophonic melodies by a professional class of jongleurs or ménestrels. These usually recounted the famous deeds (geste) of past heroes, legendary and semi-historical. The Song of Roland is the most famous of these, but in general the chansons de geste are studied as literature since very little of their music survives.
The chanson courtoise or grand chant was an early form of monophonic chanson, the chief lyric poetic genre of the trouvères. It was an adaptation to Old French of the Occitan canso. It was practised in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Thematically, as its name implies, it was a song of courtly love, written usually by a man to his noble lover. Some later chansons were polyphonic and some had refrains and were called chansons avec des refrains. A Crusade song was known as a chanson de croisade.
Cheb Hasni (Arabic : الشاب حسني) born Hasni Chakroun (February 1, 1968 – September 29, 1994) was a performer of Algerian Raï music. He was popular across North Africa, having reached the height of his career in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was the son of a welder and grew up in a working class family where he was one of seven children. Hasni is most well known for his love songs, but he also dealt with taboo subjects such as divorce and alcohol. He was murdered in 1994.
Born in Oran, Algeria, Cheb Hasni was interested in performing from an early age. In an interview published in the French newspaper Libération in 1992, Hasni recounted how "everyone knew me in our neighbourhood when I was a kid. I was always walking up the road with my school bag thrown off my shoulder, singing my head off"[citation needed]. Hasni was also talented in football and a good student, but these traits were overshadowed by his musical interests.
Hasni's first significant performance as a singer occurred when he attended a local wedding party, where the group led by the famous Naoui brothers was playing. Impressed by his voice, they invited him to perform on stage at a well-known cabaret, La Guinguette.
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Chansons
Chanson d'amour et d'amitié
Chanson d'un vieux routier
De la vieille rengaine
Chanson des rues et des pavés
Perdue ou retrouvée
Sur Ie bord de la Seine
Chanson qui vit dans ma mémoire
Et vient dans ma guitare
Me jouer la chansonnette
Chanson des nappes de papier
Chanson qui fait rêver
musique un peu simplette
Chanson d'amour et de regrets
Chanson qui fait pleurer
Margot dans sa chaumière
Chanson pour Serge ou pour Édith
Ancienne ou inédite
En tout cas familière
Chanson qui n'est qu'une chanson
Pour toutes les saisons
Du temps qui se déroule
Chanson que I'on siffle pour soi
Que I'on chante à mi-voix
Ou que reprend la foule
Chanson qui n'est qu'une chanson
Pour toutes les saisons
musique un peu guimauve
Chanson que je connais par cur
Que je chante en majeur
Quand j'ai les idées mauves