- country:France
- style(s):World
- label:Gibraltar Productions
- type:Duo, Trio, Big Band
- gender:female
- instrumentation:instrumental, percussion, singer songwriter
- artist posted by:Gibraltar Productions
Françoise Atlan is a French singer, born in a Sephardic Jewish family in Narbonne (France) 27 July 1964. Her father was a counselor native of Béjaïa, Algeria, and her mother was a pianist and a lyrical singer. Atlan surname derives via Arabic from the sephardic surname Katalan. Endowed with a natural voice developed in her early years, she sings "nawbas" which are usually reserved for male singers. Welcomed with equal enthusiasm in Morocco (Fes, Rabat, Casablanca...), in Switzerland (Montreux, Yverdon-les-Bains...) and in France (Abbaye du Thoronet, Arsenal de Metz...), and received warm applauses in Belgrade, Tokyo and Kyoto. She also achieved success in the USA, Japan, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Great Britain, Morocco, Tunisia, ex-Yugoslavia, Israel, and continued her research on Mediterranean repertoires. as well in the ancient occidental or in the traditional Andalusian Arabic repertoires. Nowadays, Françoise Atlan chooses to live and work in Morocco particularly in Marrakesh.