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b. André Paul Stephane Persiani, 19 November 1927, Paris, France, d. 2 January 2004, Paris, France. Persiany started playing piano as a kid and by his early twenties was an achieved leader of little groupings playing swing-style jazz. He caused many touring American jazz performers including Costs Coleman, Buck Clayton …

Chansonnier Philippe Clay emerged among the many successful France pop stars from the postwar period, popularizing music from composers including Charles Aznavour, Boris Vian, and Serge Gainsbourg. Among worldwide audiences, he continues to be most widely known for his performances on film, especially Jean Renoir’s 1954 work French Cancan as …

The celebrated French composer Pierre Henry was one of the pivotal forces behind the introduction of musique concrète, becoming the very first formally educated musician to devote his energies towards the electronic moderate. Created in Paris on Dec 9, 1927, he started training in the Paris Conservatoire at age ten, …