Music like Paris Combo

Paris Combo is a musical group based in Paris, France, fronted until her death in 2020 by singer Belle du Berry. The group has an eclectic style, blending elements from the traditional French chanson and pop, American jazz and swing, Roma music, and North African music. They have performed live all over the world.

The mainstream success of their second album Living Room (2000) gave the group a unique status as a French indie band capable of drawing crowds not only in France, where the album went gold, but also in Australia and the USA where they have toured over twenty times.

Bénédicte Grimault (born 1966, Berry-Bouy, near Bourges) studied cinema in Paris and became attracted to the punk movement. Taking the stage name Belle du Berry, she joined the group Les Pervers Polymorphes Inorganisés (PPI), and in 1989 joined Les Champêtres de Joie and began playing the accordion. Les Champêtres de Joie was a musical revue that presented early 20th century chansons, including those by Damia, Fréhel, Marianne Oswald and Arletty, in a punk-influenced style. Among the group members were drummer François Jeannin and guitarist Potzi. Belle du Berry and Champêtres de Joie collaborated with choreographer Philippe Decouflé to create the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics at Albertville in 1992. She contributed to several theatre and film projects in the early 1990s, including a revue about the Dadaist movement, a tribute to Boris Vian, and acted the role of singer Yvette Guilbert in the Toulouse-Lautrec biographical film Lautrec.