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Michel Polnareff

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...