EXPAND YOUR REPERTOIRE
Photos from L to R: 1 & 2: Line Renaud. #3. Barbara, the divine. Their repertoires added wealth, imagination, intellectualism, beauty, feelings and poesy to the French cabaret music and music hall. Unfortunately, they remained completely obscure and unknown to the American cabaret female singers.
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from L to R: #1. Louis Aragon. #2 Jacques Prevert.
4- Learn "new" old songs of the golden era of Parisian cabaret. Songs like: "Tout fout l'camp", "La guinguette" by Damia.
5- Search and research, update and revive your repertoire. Get music sheets of Lucienne Boyer, Jean Constantin, Charles Dumont, Damia, Bourvil, Dalida, Gribouille, Aragon, Prevert, Sacha Guitry, Jean Cocteau, Yves Montand, etc...
6- Never wear boots and extremely high heels on stage. Many American singers and particularly New Yorkers tend to do that!
7- Always, wear a black dress, simple but classy and stylish.
8- Avoid slang and borrowed jokes, while performing on stage.
9- Don't ever tell the audience and new acquaintances that you have studied 5 years of French in school but you forgot all of it.
10- Always, and always and always, incorporate soft, slow and up beat French songs in your repertoire. For instance, if you like very much "L'Hymne a L'Amour", add songs like "Mon Manege a Moi C'est Toi", or "Paris Canaille", or "PADAM PADAM". And if you like the genre of "Ne Me quittes Pas", add songs like "La Foule", "D'Aventures en Aventures", "Elsa", "Les Deux Guitares", "La Boheme", etc...
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