Mickaël Miro

A modern-day purveyor of the traditional French chanson, Mickaël Miro's simple acoustic tales of love and warm gentle vocals neatly filled the void left by fellow chanteur Jean-Jacques Goldman's ten-year absence. Born in Lyon in 1979, Miro, who used his late grandfather's name as a tribute, originally had no intentions of forging a music career, but after graduating from his hometown's university with a degree in business law, he moved to Paris, where he began to play in the city's jazz bars. Inspired by the likes of Francis Cabrel and Michel Berger, he started writing his own...