PAUL MAURIAT

Paul Mauriat was a famous French composer,director and musician. He was born in Marseille, France, in 1925 He began his piano studies when he was only four years old, and finishes these ten years later. After his graduation in the Conservatory, he began his career musical as an orchestra director. Mauriat developed his early career with his own orchestra in the second half of the 40’s. Additionally to it, he was musical director of Charles Aznavour, Mirelle Mathieu, Maurice Chevalier, etc. However, his best songs were played in the 60’s, in fact, “Love is Blue”, his most successful work, became Number 1 for five weeks in the USA, in 1968. Other great song was “un homme et une femme” that was originally composed by Francis Lai and Pierre Barough. This song had delicious arrangements. Most of his records were famous songs already composed; however Mauriat gave to these songs his personal style. Master of the musical genre knowed as “Easy Listening”, he sold 60 million of discs In spite of, and according many of his friends, Paul was humble and kind. He had class. He died in Perpignan, France, in 2006.