French Mandopop () is a category of

mandopop Mandopop or Mandapop refers to Mandarin popular music. The genre has its origin in the jazz-influenced popular music of 1930s Shanghai known as Shidaiqu; with later influences coming from Japanese enka, Hong Kong's Cantopop, Taiwan's Hokkie ...

that appeared at the beginning of the 21st Century. As the name implies, French Mandopop features songs performed mainly in

Mandarin Chinese Mandarin (; ) is a group of Chinese (Sinitic) dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China. The group includes the Beijing dialect, the basis of the phonology of Standard Chinese, the official language ...

with a French style or a French touch. Consumers of the music include fans, especially Mandarin speakers and Chinese people attracted by French culture, in China,

France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area ...

and other countries.

Characteristics

French Mandopop is characterized by the following features: French speaking singers who perform in

, with a French accent or not, a non-Chinese style melody, French style mix and mastering. Chinese lyrics and themes are inspired by France and French imaginary. French Mandopop is also characterized by a French way (or western way) of performing on stage, not or almost not influenced by Chinese aesthetics.

History

2000s

The pioneer of French Mandopop, Dantès Dailiang, was the first French singer songwriter who writes his songs and sings in Mandarin Chinese signed by a Chinese record company for his albums Parfums d’extrêmes, (simplified Chinese: 我记得你) in 2007 and Dailiang (simplified Chinese 下有戴亮), in 2009.

2010s

Due to the mutual attraction between China and France, more and more French artists try with more or less success to write or sing original songs in

. The phenomenon increased since the year 2010 when the first official French Music Festival was organized in

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Labels

* Mainland China: Jiesheng Records * Hong Kong, Taiwan, Europe: Plaza Mayor Company, Warner

Artists

* Dantès Dailiang * Jil Caplan *

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* Jean-Sébastien Héry * Frederick

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