One of French music's great comeback stories, old-school crooner Alain Barrière split the difference between chanson and American pop. Like a French Paul Anka, he remained a staunch believer in craft and melody at a time when the rest of the country was going crazy for yé-yé. Following a lengthy retreat from the public eye, a remastered career retrospective and new album revived the big-voiced romantic's career in 1997.