“Academy award-winner Michel Legrand is dead”
“The French composer Michel Legrand has died, 86 years old.”
“Legrand won three academy awards during his career. The first he received for the song ”
“Legrand, who began as a jazz musician, also won five american Grammys and worked with artists such as Miles Davies, Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra and Edith Piaf. He also wrote the academy-award-nominated music for the French new wave director Jacques Demys films ”