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Frances Livings

Multi-lingual Singer | Songwriter | Poet

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  • Frances Livings’ Ipanema Lounge
  • Shows
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    • Ma Solitude (2017)
    • Ipanema Lounge (2016)
    • The World I Am Livings In (2013)
    • Songs of Antônio Carlos Jobim (2012)
    • Glory Me (2011)
    • Candy’s Caravan (2011)
    • Urban Survival (2010)
    • When Love Falls Apart (2010)
    • During The Hours (2010)
    • Gold & Frankincense (2009)
    • Sticky Traxx (2009)
  • Song Lyrics
    • Banalities
    • Candy’s Caravan
    • Cold Coffee
    • Come Closer
    • Don’t Treat Me Cool
    • Glory Me
    • I’ll Be Leaving Soon
    • Long Time Gone
    • Mr. Moon
    • Samba On The Moon
    • Urban Survival
    • When Love Falls Apart
    • White Angel’s Café
    • You Can’t Rewind…
  • Poems
    • A Breath She Took
    • Afternoon Delight
    • Breakfast
    • Cast In Bronze
    • During The Hours
    • Evaporated
    • Goldfish Bowl
    • Gold & Frankincense
    • Ink on Silk
    • Ode to Tinsel Town
    • Songs of the Soul
    • The Butterfly
    • The Maliciousness of Words
    • When It Rains
    • Worst Case Scenario
    • Your Perfect Body
  • Voice-Over
  • Book Store
    • Ephemeral Cult Sites – The Staging of Space and Material at Nazi Mass Rallies (2020)
    • Nationalized Landscape and the Cult of the Dead. The Staging of “Blood and Soil” at the Bückeberg 1933 – 1937 (2020)
    • Erscheinungen des Sakralen (2011)
    • Ephemere Kulträume (Dissertation 2003)
    • “Licht” in Lexikon des Künstlerischen Materials (2002)
  • Contact
  • Blog Posts
    • Ma Solitude
    • Songs of the Soul ~ Musical Poetry and its Inspirations
    • Frances Livings’ Ipanema Lounge Repertoire. French Chansons
    • Aganjú ~ Music and Spirituality
    • Brand New EPK Launched for Frances Livings’ Ipanema Lounge
    • Fishnet Stockings and Lonely Tissues Boxes. The Reeperbahn in Hamburg and Candy’s Caravan
    • Livings In Los Angeles. Public Parks and Gardens and their Impact on Mental Health and the Creative Mind
    • I Just Lost It
    • Funeral Blues…
    • Eating the Darkness. Francesca Woodman’s Wallpaper
    • During the Hours – A wonderful review by the Poet Hound
    • The Mystery of Unicorns
    • “When Love Falls Apart” and the Beauty of Melancholy
    • Morning Has Broken…
    • May You Shine…
    • Waters of March and the Circle of Life
    • True Colors
    • The Pomegranate – On Finding Poetry
    • Wonderful Review of “The World I Am Livings In”
    • Creative Influences ~ Poems I Read. ‘Desiderata’ by Max Ehrmann
    • Please Close Your Eyes
    • Livings in Los Angeles. Closet Stories – The Hollywood Uniform
    • National Poetry Month, April 2014
    • Creative Influences ~ Poetry. Sun at Midnight
    • Creative Influences ~ Sneezles by A. A. Milne on Record-A-Poem
    • Frances Livings’ Ipanema Lounge ~ New Album Out Soon!
    • Still Lifes – The Art of Tranquillity
    • Songs of the Soul ~ In Memory of Zane Musa (1979 – 2015)
    • Staying in Touch…
    • Press Release: New Album Frances Livings’ Ipanema Lounge
    • Are You Smelling the Roses?
    • Livings in Los Angeles. Whole Foods and the Terror of Me. Now!

Category: French Songs

Ma Solitude


French Songs, Music, Philosophy, Poetry, Record releases, Songwriting

Painting above: Alphonse Osbert, Solitude du Christ, 1897 I only recently decided to make a recording of the French chanson Ma Solitude, a song I have known and loved for most of my adult life. But singing it live with my trio for a couple of months now, has deepened my perception of and connection […]

December 24, 2017
Frances Livings' Ipanema Lounge best live world jazz band multi-lingual, groovy and sensual in French, English, Spanish and Portuguese

New EPK for Frances Livings’ Ipanema Lounge


Female Artists, French Songs, Jazz, Live Music, Performing
July 31, 2017
Elliot-Erwill-Paris-Rain-French-Chansons

Frances Livings’ Ipanema Lounge Repertoire. French Chansons


Creative influences, Foreign language songs, French Songs, Jazz, Lyrics, Music

I have always loved French chansons which definitely derives from my strong affinity with the French culture – and I am not only referring to the delicious food. I was thrilled to start learning French at middle school and very excited about being able to count to ten, say bonjour, merci, oui and non after […]

May 30, 2015

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America needs a leader, a truth speaker, an engage America needs a leader, a truth speaker, an engaged and passionate civil-rights activist, not a president who calls protesters “thugs” and threatens to have them shot. He is provoking a civil war with the pandemic having gone politically haywire, the economy in a meltdown and brutal murders of black people by civilians and the police force.

#protests2020 #riots2020 #butthekkk #BLACK_LIVES_MATTERS #peace 
Damien Hirst, The Incomplete Truth, 2006
Surreal and scary when you hear the same siren and Surreal and scary when you hear the same siren and helicopter sounds on TV split seconds lapsed from what you’re hearing in real time. It’s scary right now in L.A. — smoke filled air, search lights, helicopters... I regret that what I personally experienced as a peaceful protest for an incredibly overdue issue of dire racism in the US turned violent with a split group of looters and anarchists. Los Angeles is under curfew. I have no problem with that if it’s for the common good and if it helps those trying to gain control of the looters, the fires, the anxiety amidst a pandemic! Be safe everyone! I know this is happening everywhere... 😢
Sometimes I like to imagine I’m in France... par Sometimes I like to imagine I’m in France... parts of my neighbourhood are really pretty and my dog 🐕 🐶 walks give me a lot of stress relief. But I do miss the real thing 🇫🇷 Let’s all look forward to when we can travel again!
#covid19 #architecture #romanticstyle #summerflowers🌸 #losangeles
She’s now peacefully slumbering (also thanks to She’s now peacefully slumbering (also thanks to some drugs) because it was quite a traumatic evening for the Gisela and me. She got scared of a dog, slipped out of her collar and bolted. Hours later, my voice already raw from running, searching and calling her name, I heard via an amazing network of neighbours on Facebook and Nextdoor that she had been found! She had been running and got hit by a car, a dog-lover found her... long story. Just so happy to have her back, her head on my lap. But without the help of all of my neighbours this would have had a very different turnout. 🙏🏻😱😭🐕💕✨
I’m covered! Are you? #memoriadayweekend #staysa I’m covered! Are you? #memoriadayweekend #staysafe #wearamask
Trying on my new face masks! See the cute little g Trying on my new face masks! See the cute little green leaf 🍃 at the bottom? Matches my eyes 👀 Let’s just make the best of it. Mask order in Los Angeles when outside. #besafeoutthere #covid19 #stayhome #stayhealthy
A quick photo of a beautiful rose on my evening 🐕 walk. I wish I could have captured the fragrance! The Jasmin is also in full bloom, which I can smell now through the open windows of my apartment, finally cooling down! ☀️#roses #flowersinbloom #earlysummer2020  #indiemusician
Enjoying the view with my little one before it got Enjoying the view with my little one before it got too hot. Sun hat well needed. Leonora may need some sunglasses too. #heatwave #sunnycalifornia
I found another piggeldy on my evening walk. 💕. I found another piggeldy on my evening walk. 💕. #streetart #lockdown2020 #losangeles
Very restless day. It finally cooled down this eve Very restless day. It finally cooled down this evening after apocalyptic 34 degrees Celsius in Los Angeles. Reward was the sunset and the amazing full moon 🌕
Almost 10pm... just too hot to handle. First heatw Almost 10pm... just too hot to handle. First heatwave with Santa Ana winds. #heatwave #toohotoutside
Another weird empty city sighting on my evening wa Another weird empty city sighting on my evening walk tonight. Pink sheep graffiti. #weirdlosangeles #emptystreets #emptycity #graffiti #streetart
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