Michel Legrand - Claude Nougaro

Michel Legrand is best known as one of the foremost popular composers of film music of the postwar era to come out of France. The range of his activities across his career is considerably broader than film work, however, also including composition for the stage, and an equally impressive resume in the area of light jazz. Born in Paris in 1932, he was the son of Raymond Legrand, an arranger, conductor, and film composer. After his parents' divorce when he was three, Legrand grew up estranged from his father. He showed musical ability at an early age, entered the Paris Conserva...