Best Jane Birkin

Jane Mallory Birkin, OBE was an English actress, singer, songwriter, and model. She attained international fame and notability for her decade-long musical and romantic partnership with Serge Gainsbourg. She also had a prolific career as an actress in British and French cinema.

Jane Mallory Birkin, OBE was an English actress, singer, songwriter, and model. She attained international fame and notability for her decade-long musical and romantic partnership with Serge Gainsbourg. She also had a prolific career as an actress in British and French cinema.

Jane Mallory Birkin, OBE was an English actress, singer, songwriter, and model. She attained international fame and notability for her decade-long musical and romantic partnership with Serge Gainsbourg. She also had a prolific career as an actress in British and French cinema.

2008 French language album from the famed actress/singer best known for her hit duet with Serge Gainsbourg, 'Je t'aime (Moi Non Plus)', in 1969. Enfants D'Hiver has's similar chilled out, ethereal sound to her 2006 album Fictions yet stands on it's own legs and proves to be a welcome release from the darling diva. In 1992, Birkin gave up singing, saying she could not imagine working with anyone other than Gainsbourg who had passed away the year before. Instead she focused on her family and her humanitarian work.

The Best of Jane Birkin is a comprehensive overview of her sporadic, inconsistent recording career, drawing highlights from her studio albums and adding several live tracks for good measure…

Was Brigitte Bardot a "good" singer, in the conventional sense? No. Was the material she sang in the 1960s especially deep or brilliant? No. But is this 19-track compilation of the cream of her 1963-1970 recordings a fun listen? Yes indeed. Although not the owner of conventional high-level vocal skills, Bardot invested her frivolous songs with a contagious sense of playful fun, and a refusal to take the music or herself too seriously. Certainly some of the tunes – and their breathy delivery – capitalize on her iconic sex kitten persona.

Leave it to the French to show their cosmopolitan side with this wide-ranging five CDs that often resembles a whirlwind package tour of Paris. All in all, it's a spectacularly fun, occasionally chuckle-inducing collection.