Composer and arranger, pianist, guitarist and performer with a high-pitched
voice, Michel Polnareff has left his mark on the history of French chanson and
rock. Born into a family of Russian émigrés in Nérac on July 3, 1944, he learned
to play the piano and won a first prize in music theory at the Paris
Conservatoire. In the mid-1960s, he took his guitar to London, then played the
streets of Paris before being signed to Disc'AZ. La poupée qui fait non" and
"Love Me Please Love Me" brought him immediate fame, while "L'Amour avec toi "
was censored on the radio. Michel Polnareff th...