Coeur de Pirate: Quebecoise Charm School

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April 19, 2010 | 1

If you haven’t already, meet Coeur de Pirate, the beautiful and charming Quebec singer-songwriter Béatrice Martin.  Her sound’s somewhere between Françoise Hardy and Icelandic band Seabear.  Here’s the video for “Comme des Enfants” and here’s a fan-made video for “Printemps” (my favorite C de P song).

is a staff writer for The Millions living in Virginia. She is a winner of the Virginia Quarterly's Young Reviewers Contest and has a doctorate from Stanford. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Times, In Character, VQR, Arts & Letters Daily, and The Daily Dish.

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