Michel Jean Legrand (French pronunciation:[miʃɛlləɡʁɑ̃]; 24 February 1932 – 26 January 2019) was a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, jazz pianist,[1] and singer. Legrand was a prolific composer, having written over 200 film and television scores, in addition to many songs.[2] His scores for two of the films of French New Wave director Jacques Demy, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967), earned Legrand his first Academy Award nominations. Legrand won his first Oscar for the song "The Windmills of Your Mind" from The Thomas Crown Affair (1968),[3] and additional Oscars for Summer of '42 (1971) and Barbra Streisand's Yentl (1983).
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Michel Jean Legrand (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl ləɡʁɑ̃]; 24 February 1932 – 26 January 2019) was a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, jazz...
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Beach House. Legrand was born in Paris, France, the daughter of painter Olivier Legrand [fr] and niece of the French composer MichelLegrand and vocalist...
roll", and was anxious to try his hand at it. French composer/arranger MichelLegrand teamed up with Laine to record a pair of albums in 1958. The first,...
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relationship with the French composer MichelLegrand began in the late 1960s. The couple wrote English lyrics for Legrand's song "The Windmills of Your Mind"...
romantic drama film written and directed by Jacques Demy, with music by MichelLegrand. Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo star as two young lovers in...
over from film to film), lush musical scores (typically composed by MichelLegrand) and motifs like teenage love, labor rights, chance encounters, incest...
including those conducted by Leonard Bernstein, Quincy Jones, and MichelLegrand. He moved to Cologne in 1980, playing in the WDR Big Band, also composing...
theater classics, including albums of songs by Stephen Sondheim and MichelLegrand. In recent years she has become a contributing writer to The New York...
George Chakiris, Michel Piccoli, Jacques Perrin, Grover Dale and Geneviève Thénier, along with Gene Kelly and Danielle Darrieux. MichelLegrand composed the...
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Johnny Mercer (lyrics) The Umbrellas of Cherbourg "I Will Wait for You" MichelLegrand (music); Jacques Demy (lyrics); Norman Gimbel (English lyrics) What's...
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Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, 1964). Its music was composed by MichelLegrand and the original lyrics were written by Jacques Demy. It was performed...
with the song "À force de prier". Her friendship with the composer MichelLegrand led to the recording by Mouskouri of the theme song of the Oscar-nominated...
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