A Chanson is generally any lyric-driven French song. The term is most commonly used in English to refer either to the secular polyphonic French songs of late Medieval and Renaissance music or to a specific style of French Pop music which emerged in the 1950s and 1960s. A singer specializing 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… read more…