Sympathique (Je ne veux pas travailler) - Pink Martini ft. China Forbes | 2021

Pink Martini is on tour in 2023! Tickets are on sale now at: From Pink Martini’s rainy September 2021 concert at Edgefield, near the band’s hometown of Portland, Oregon, this live performance features one of the band’s most popular songs, “Sympathique (Je ne veux pas travailler).“ The hit title track from Pink Martini’s debut album, “Sympathique“ is the song (nominated for best song of the year at France’s Victoires de la Musique, the French equivalent to the Grammys) that launched the band’s career in Europe. An original written by bandleader Thomas Lauderdale and lead singer China Forbes, the song is the band’s most recognized tune worldwide, and is *not*, as many think, a cover of an Edith Piaf song! The song’s alternate French title, “Je ne veux pas travailler“, translates in English to “I don’t want to work“; the song was a mantra for French workers’ rights movements when it w