Sometimes called "the Woody Allen of France," Agnes Jaoui is best known for her acting (in Un Air de Famille, Le Rôle de Sa Vie) as well as for her writing and directing (her debut as a director, The Taste of Others, or Le Goût des Autres, was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2000). Jaoui studied voice as a teenager and sang in some of her films. Besides her love of Baroque song, she was also interested in Latin music, and in 2005 she performed around France. This led to the development of Canta (2006), a collection of songs sung in Spanish and Portuguese. ~ Marisa Brown