Michel Zacha

Real name Michel Zacharopoulos, singer-songwriter and producer Michel Zacha is best known for his trilogy of albums, Promesses d'Atlantides. Trained as a guitarist, he made his name in 1970 under the name Michel Zacka with the single "Feuille brûlée", published by the Saravah label, before signing with Pathé-Marconi, where he was surrounded by seasoned musicians such as Jean-Pierre Alarcen (guitar), Georges Rabol (piano), Frédéric-Ronald Dodd (flute, saxophone), Alan Jones (bass) and Marc Chantereau (percussion), he produced his first album La Nuit des Cigales (1972), subtitled Promesses d'Atlantides, Vol. 1. Somewhere between progressive rock and pop chanson, Michel Zacha established a singular style, sometimes electric, sometimes acoustic, which continued with the single "L'Amour sans amour" (1973), only available in 45-turn format, and the album Le Vol d'Icare (1974), to which the synthetic sounds of keyboardist Georges Rodi and the bass of Olivier Bloch-Lainé were added. 1977 saw the release of the final part of the trilogy, Inutile, which saw Michel Zacha invite, in addition to Rabol, Alarcen, Rodi and Chantereau, Michel Ripoche on electric violin, drummers André Ceccarelli, Bernard Lubat and François Auger, guitarists Claude Engel and Philippe Dalecky, bassist Marc Bertaux, flutist Michel Delaporte, as well as Marcel Engel, Nicole Darde, Anne Vassiliu and Rachid Bahri on backing vocals. After this recording, Michel Zacha wrote the song "Jeremie " for Spanish singer Jeanette, and years later collaborated with François Béranger, Xavier Lacouture and Geoffrey Oryema. In 2005, Didier Barbelivien included "Les Cigales " on his album Envoie les Clowns.

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