Michel Delpech

JeanMichel Delpech 26 January 1946 2 January 2016 known as Michel Delpech was a French singersongwriter and actor JeanMichel Bertrand Delpech was born the 26th January in 1946 in Courbevoie a city located in the Parisian suburbs Part of the baby boom he was the son of Bertrand Charles Delpech a chrome metal plater and Christiane Cécile Marie Josselin a housewife He had two younger sisters named Catherine and Martine His maternal family Josselin are winegrowers in GyésurSeine in the Aube department His fathers ancestral home is in Sologne more specifically in Dhuizon where his hairdresser grandfather lived and also in La FertéSaintCyr where his uncles and cousins worked as grocers loggers and farmers The young Michel spent weekends and holidays with his provincial family sometimes working in his aunts grocery store Its parents having moved to CormeillesenParisis in SeineetOise today known as ValdOise JeanMichel Delpech studied in the Chabanne college and in the Pontoises CamillePissarro highschool from 1961 to 1964 As a teenager he got passionate about famous classic fingers such as Luis Mariano and then for the great names from the 1950s such as Gilbert Nécaud and Charles Aznavour In 1963 in high school he created a little orchestra with his schoolmates Before taking his final exams he left high school in January 1964 to focus on singing He took a chance by attending an audition in Paris to join the disque Vogue record company At age 18 he released his first record called Anatole and met composer Roland Vincent While going to Rolands house based in SaintCloud for a working session he rethinks about his high school years and about the café he used to go with his mates after the school day On the train between Saint Lazare and Saint Cloud train station he writes the lyrics of Chez Laurette for which Roland Vincent felt seduced and inspired and quickly found a melody Released the 1st of May 1965 during the yé yé period this nostalgic teenager music wasnt a success at its release but thanks to the numerous radio streams he started to experience a slight celebrity In 1965 Michel Delpech attended a musical comedy CopainsClopant which was featured for 6 months before at the Michodière theater and then at the Gymnase Theater in Paris the integration of the Chez Laurette Music helped him to be famous During this musical comedy Delpech meets Chantal SImon who he sang a song with Then hell marry her at the age of 20 in 1966 The same year under the Festival Label he recorded its 2nd 45 laps Inventaire 1966 new stepping stone towards the star status As Jacques Prévert and as a tribute to the poetry he compiles in the verse of the music a list of news such as the Vietnam war the minijupe the Courrèges boots the Cacharel trend the flower shirtsetc Still in 1966 he made the first part during 38 shows of Jacques Brell who said goodbye to the Olympia Source Article Michel Delpech from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA