C'est La Vie is the third studio album by Swedish singer and songwriter Johan Christher Schütz, released in May 2009 worldwide, with a pre-release in Japan in December 2008.
This international edition of C'est La Vie has five of the songs in English, whereas the original Swedish version, C'est La Vie - 11 sånger på svenska (C'est La Vie - 11 songs in Swedish), has all songs performed in Swedish.
Östgöta Correspondenten called it "well written" and "well played",[2] and the music magazine Lira put more attention to detail, noticing that "Schütz has got a lot on his mind, a kind of nicely laid-back observations on life, where a smile is never far away".
[3] The quality of Schütz songwriting on this album was also mentioned by Lira, in a different review of the Swedish version As If It's Never Taken Place (Som om ingenting har hänt) in the 2008 recording by Brazilian singer Aline de Lima from her album Açai.
"[4] The musicians playing on C'est La Vie include awarded Swedish instrumentalists such as Olle Linder (bass, drums and percussion), Roman Andrén (rhodes & keyboards), Karin Hammar (trombone), Stefan Persson (trumpet), and a pandeiro performance by Sebastian Notini.