i want to broaden my music taste (slightly) i was in france a few years back and a good friend of mine pointed me in the way of the
saian supa crew i just want some more foreign music of this sort of style or bandoleros by Don omar (doesnt have to be french-latin) to add to my playlist before i get posted to the falklands.

shaun

You could try Michael Jackson, Kylie Minogue or Shakira, they're all foreign 🙂

More usefully, Manu Chao?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ojos_de_Brujo

that the right sort of stuff!!!

even some english spoken music that my be of these sort genres

Not the same sort of stuff, but I think Florent Pagny is superb.
Here's his ballad La Ou Je T'emmenerai.

seu jorge
ibrahim ferrer

Tijuana Cartel

And if you like Manu Chao, he produced Amadou and Mariam's brilliant album Dimanche a Bamako.

Mozart

Fat Freddys Drop

My favourite French songs 🙂

Respire – Mickey 3D
J'ai Demande a La Lune – Indochine
Tout le bonheur du monde – Sinsemilia (the subjunctive in pop music – only in France!!)
Ella, Elle l'a – France Gall (what can I say – it reminds me of something)
Tous Ces Combats – Mylene Farmer (don't listen to me singing in the shower)
Ne Me Quitte Pas – Jacques Brel (reminds me of something else, a whole lot more triste)
Le Moribond – Jacques Brel (the original of "Seasons in the Sun")

and not forgetting Alizee, for strictly non-musical reasons:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMvnnTPvlW4