Paul Mauriat

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Julien André Mauriat, born in 1929 and died on November 3rd, 2006.

He is best known in the United States for his million-selling version of André Popp's "Love is Blue," which was #1 for five weeks in 1968.

"El Bimbo," "Toccata," "Love in Every Room/Même si tu revenais," and "Penelope" are among his recordings for which he is well-known.

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1925–1956: Early life and career

Mauriat was born and raised in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France, in 1925. His father, a postal inspector, loved to play classical piano and violin. Mauriat began playing the piano at the age of three or four, and his father gave him a music lesson when he was eight years old. He enrolled in the Conservatoire in Marseille in 1935 to study classical music, but by the time he was 17, he had fallen in love with jazz and popular music.

Mauriat had his first job as a postman, but he was recruited as a band conductor in 1942. Throughout the 1940s, his dance band toured concert halls around Europe. He was based in Marseilles until 1958, when he migrated to Paris. Mauriat became the musical director for at least two well-known French singers, Charles Aznavour and Maurice Chevalier, who performed with both of them. He arranged 135 songs by Aznavour, including "La Bohème," "La mamma," and "Tu t'laisses aller," and continued with Aznavour until he concentrated on his own touring and recording work in the 1960s.

Paul Mauriat, Mauriat's first EP, was released in 1957, a four-track RGM. The 1958 Le Coq d'or de la Chanson Française, one of his first albums, Rendez-vous au Lavandou, co-written with André Pascal, was named in 1958.

Mauriat produced several albums on the Bel-Air record label under the name Paul Mauriat Son Orchestre, as well as using Richard Audrey's various pseudonyms, Nico Papadopoulos, Eduardo Ruo, and Willy Twist to better reflect the country's multicultural flavor of his recordings between 1959 and 1964. Mauriat also released several albums with Les Satellites (1961), A Malyst (1962), and Les Satellites Chantent Noel (1964).

Un Taxi Pour Tobrouk (1961), Horace 62 (1962), and Faites Sauter La Banque (1964) are among Mauriat's film soundtracks (also available on Bel-Air).

With Chariot, he would have his first international success, as he wrote with colleagues Franck Pourcel (co-composer), Jacques Plante (French lyrics) and Raymond Lefèvre (orchestrator). Little Peggy March's album "I Will Follow Him" in the United States was released by the band and spent three weeks at No. 83. In 1963, Billboard Hot 100 number 1 debuted. The song appeared in the film Sister Act starring Whoopi Goldberg in 1992. In his song "Guilty Conscience," Eminem sampled it more recently.

Mauriat began recording under his own name with Philips Records in 1965, as the label was looking for someone who could contend with Franck Pourcel, who was the most popular figure at the time. He wrote many songs with André Pascal for Mireille Mathieu between 1967 and 1972; Mon Crédo (1,335,000 copies sold); Viens dans la rue, La première étoile, Géant.

His late 1967 cover of André Popp/Pierre Cour tune "L'amour est bleu" ("Love Is Blue") became the first hit in the United States. The song debuted at number five on the charts for five weeks. Two other Mauriat singles also made the US charts: "Love in Every Room"/"Même si tu revenais" (recorded in 1965), and "Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang" — the French version of the film "Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang" (recorded in 1966). "Love Is Blue" was the first instrumental to debut on the Billboard charts since the Tornados hit "Telstar" in 1962 and the first American number one single to be released in France. Blooming Hits, the song and the album on which it appeared, established Mauriat as a worldwide recording celebrity.

Mauriat began his first world tour with his Grand Orchestra in 1969, visiting countries like the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, and other Latin American countries.

Mauriat also released complete albums in the 1970s and 1980s that paid tribute to his musical roots. "Paul Mauriat joue Chopin" ("Classics in the Air) is a newspaper published in the United States. "Grande valse brillante" by Chopin, Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor"), as well as Pachelbel's "Canon" is included in "Pote's "Canon" in "Country 4,2,3), as "Pembra" (volumes 1,2,3) features classical music, "Men "Toccata joue Chopin" ("Grane en" ("Grane, "Cine" (volumes, -" (Kin the Air" ("Britis on Grane Grane Grane, Bach" and Fugue in D Minor," with "Ma and Fugue in D Minor" grate a and Fugue in D Minor" in D Minor" (P a and Pachelbel's "Ge a and Pachelbel's "P) in D Minor) and Pachelbel's "Ma and Fugue in D Minor" (volumes "Ma and Pachelbel's "Mau" in D Minor" is a and Pachine in D Minor" in D Minor) "Me e a and Paterne, "Ma and Paterne in D Minor" (volumes, "Ma and Fugue in D Minor" ("Sa, "Ma and Paxton, "Ma and Paternal, "Gran" (P) in D Minor) "Pe a and Pachelbel's, "Le -Las, "Ga and Fugue in D Minor" is included in "P. In 1971, El Condor Pasa ranked at number 34 in Australia.

The 1978 disco/funk album Overseas Call by Mauriat's long-time arranger Gérard Gambus resulted in the 1982 disco/funk album Overseas Call, which was later discovered by rare disco collectors in the 2000s. The album was recorded at the Power Station studio in New York and engineered and remixed by disco producer Bob Clearmountain. "The Joy of You," one of the tracks featured in DJ Dimitri's influential 2007 collection Cocktail Disco. Dimitri described the Cocktail Disco subgenre as having "the ubiquitous 4/4 beat and flying open high hat," as complemented by rich orchestrations, a debate over the top vocals, and a characteristic latin vibe. Something that wouldn't fit in a Broadway musical." He also stated that "the same style" existed in its days, from 1976 to 1979, and he claimed that "the same style was used from 1976 to 1979." In places with a sex-oriented drive, there were even DJs who specialized in the Sleaze sound, which was often played after hours.

Beginning in the late 1960s, Paul Mauriat enjoyed particular success in Japan. He is Tokyo's only international artist to perform two sold-out shows in a single day at the famous arena Nippon Budokan. Paul Mauriat appeared in numerous Japanese coffee and wine television commercials, many of which featured music from his orchestra in the early to mid-1980s. By 1996, he had sold over 15 million albums in Japan and appeared in over 1,000 shows in 25 Japanese tours.

Several of Mauriat's compositions served as musical tracks for Soviet television shows and short films, such as the 1977 animated Polygon (film), "In the world of animals" (V mire zhivotnykh) and "Kinopanorama") among others.

Mauriat stopped performing in 1998. He appeared in the Sayonara Concert, which was broadcast live in Osaka, Japan, but his orchestra continued to tour around the world before his death in 2006. Gilles Gambus, Mauriat's former lead pianist, joined the orchestra in 2000 and led tours of Japan, China, and Russia. Gambus has been with Mauriat for more than 25 years. During a tour of Japan and Korea in 2005, classical French Horn instrumentalist Jean-Jacques Justafré conducted the orchestra.

Paul Mauriat died in Perpetu, Pyrénées-Orientales, France, at the age of 81.

1963-1997: International recognition and later careers.

Mauriat's first international hit with Chariot, which he wrote in collaboration with colleagues Franck Pourcel (co-composer), Jacques Plante (French lyrics), and Raymond Lefèvre (orchestrator), using the pseudonym of Del Roma, Mauriat. The song was titled "I Will Follow Him" by Little Peggy March in the United States and spent three weeks at No., which was in the United States. In 1963, Billboard Hot 100 number 1 appeared. The song appeared in the film Sister Act starring Whoopi Goldberg in 1992. Eminem's song "Guilty Conscience" debuted it more recently.

In 1965, Mauriat began recording under his own name with Philips Records, as the label was looking for someone who would contend with Franck Pourcel, the country's most popular figure at the time. He recorded many songs for Mireille Mathieu between 1967 and 1972; Mon Crédo (1,335,000 copies sold) : Viens dans ma rue, La première étoile, Géant.

In 1968, his late 1967 cover of André Popp/Pierre Cour's "Love Is Blue") ("Love Is Blue") became a top-one hit in the United States. The song appeared on the top of the charts for five weeks. Two other Mauriat singles also made the top charts in the United States — "Love in Every Room"/"Même si tu revenais" (recorded in 1966) and the title theme from the film "Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang" — also made it to the top in the charts in the United States — "Love in Every Room" (recorded in 1965; charted in 1968) and the film "Chitty, Chitty, Chitty, Chitty, Chitty, Chitty, Chitty, Chitty, Chitty, Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang, Bang. "Love Is Blue" was the first instrumental to debut on the Billboard charts after the Tornados introduced "Telstar" in 1962, the first American number-one single to be released in France. Blooming Hits, the song and the album on which it appeared, has established Mauriat as a worldwide recording artist.

Mauriat began his first world tour with his Grand Orchestra in 1969, visiting countries such as the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, and other Latin American countries.

Mauriat released complete albums in 1970 and 1980s that referred to his musical roots. "Paul Mauriat joue Chopin," "Classics in the Air" (volumes 1,2,3) includes classical music, such as Chopin's "Grande valse brillante," Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" and Pachelbel's "Canon" with Pachelbel's "Canon" reimagined, as well as Pachelbel's "Canon" from "Mauriat." In 1971, El Condor Pasa reached his peak at number 34 in Australia.

In 1978, Mauriat's collaboration with long-time arranger Gérard Gambus resulted in the release of the 1978 disco/funk album Overseas Call, which was later discovered by rare disco collectors in the 2000s. The album was recorded at the Power Station studio in New York and engineered and remixed by disco producer Bob Clearmountain. "The Joy of You," one of the songs on the playlist, was included in DJ Dimitri's legendary 2007 collection Cocktail Disco. Dimitri described the Cocktail Disco subgenre as having "the ubiquitous 4/4 beat and flying open high hat," as well as rich orchestrations, protesting over the top vocals, and a generally tropical latin vibe. Something that wouldn't fit in a Broadway musical." He also stated that he believes "the same look was used to Sleaze back in its days," going back from 1976 to 1979. And there were even DJs who specialized in the Sleaze sound, which was usually played after hours in bars with a strong sex-oriented drive."

Starting in the late 1960s, Paul Mauriat had a blast in Japan. He is the only international artist to perform two sold-out shows in a single day at Tokyo's historic arena Nippon Budokan. Paul Mauriat appeared in many Japanese coffee and wine television commercials, which featured music from his orchestra in the 1980s. By 1996, he had sold over 15 million albums in Japan and appeared in over 1,000 shows in 25 Japanese tours.

Many of Mauriat's compositions served as musical tracks for Soviet television shows and short films, including 1977's animated Polygon (film), "In the world of animals" (V mire zhivotnykh) and "Kinopanorama") among others.

Mauriat came from performing in 1998, but not before. He appeared in the Sayonara Concert, a live event in Osaka, Japan, but his orchestra continued to tour around the world until his death in 2006. Gilles Gambus, Mauriat's former lead pianist, joined the orchestra in 2000 and led tours of Japan, China, and Russia. Gambus had been working with Mauriat for more than 25 years. During a tour of Japan and Korea in 2005, classical French Horn instrumentalist Jean-Jacques Justafré conducted the orchestra.

Paul Mauriat died in Perpetnan, Pyrénées-Orientales, France, at the age of 81.

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