Couleurs et parfums

Couleurs et parfums is a 1999 album by Carole Fredericks

Carole Fredericks

Carole Denise Fredericks was an American singer most famous for her recordings in France. Carole emerged from the shadow of her brother, the legendary blues musicologist Taj Mahal, to achieve fame and popularity in Europe and the French-speaking world...

, an American born singer most noted for her work in France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

, featuring a cover of Cyndi Lauper

Cyndi Lauper

Cynthia Ann Stephanie "Cyndi" Lauper is an American singer, songwriter, actress and LGBT rights activist. She achieved success in the mid-1980s with the release of the album She's So Unusual and became the first female singer to have four top-five singles released from one album...

’s Time After Time entitled KAAI DJALLEMA sung in Wolof and English. The album combines Fredericks’ early experiences in the United States with the cultural influences of France. Couleurs et parfums was transformed into French lessons in 2003 and the album was reissued with the addition of one song, Veille, in 2007.

Track List

1. Qu’est-ce qui t’amène 3:52
2. J’ai le sang blues 3:52
3. Kaai Djallema/Time After Time 4:17
4. Respire 3:52
5. Le prix à payer 4:25
6. Mighty love 4:20
7. Au bout de mes rêves 3:26
8. Ecope 3:36
9. Personne ne saurait 3:44
10. Vain 4:16
11. Tu es là 4:12
12. Bonus Track: Veille 4:16

Personnel

• Carole Fredericks
  Carole Fredericks
  Carole Denise Fredericks was an American singer most famous for her recordings in France. Carole emerged from the shadow of her brother, the legendary blues musicologist Taj Mahal, to achieve fame and popularity in Europe and the French-speaking world...
  
   – lead vocals, background vocals
• Poetic Lover – vocal duet Personne ne saurait
• Nicole Amovin – vocal duet ‘Kaai Djallema’
• Jacques Veneruso – guitar, background vocals
• Christophe Battaglia – claviers
• Didier Mouret – Fender Rhodes, piano
• Christophe Nègre – tenor sax
• Bernard Allison
  Bernard Allison
  Bernard Allison is a blues guitarist based out of Minneapolis, Minnesota.His father, Luther Allison was a Chicago blues musician...
  
   – guitar solo Vain and Veille (appears courtesy of RUF RECORDS)
• Cyril Tarquigny – electric guitar
• Emmanuel Nabajoth – guest vocalist
• Théo Allen – background vocals
• Jean-Jacques Goldman
  Jean-Jacques Goldman
  Jean-Jacques Goldman is a Grammy Awards-winning French singer-songwriter. He is hugely popular in the French-speaking world, and since 2003 was the second-highest-grossing French living pop singer, after Johnny Hallyday.- Biography :...
  
  – background vocals
• Yvonne Jones – vocal duet Au bout de mes rêves, background vocals
• Maria Popkiewicz – background vocals
• Jacques Veneruso, Christophe Battaglia – Production and arrangements
• Letty M’Baye – adaptation of ‘Time After Time’ to Wolof