Paul Mauriat

French conductor and musician Paul Mauriat (1925-2006) became famous in the early 1960s for his orchestrations of Charles Aznavour songs. In the middle of the decade, he worked as a composer for Mireille Mathieu, before achieving unexpected success in 1968 with his instrumental version of "Love Is Blue ". Sung at the Eurovison Song Contest in 1967 by Vicky Leandros under the original title "L'Amour est bleu", the song reached number one in the United States under the baton of Paul Mauriat. Paul Mauriat became a benchmark for easy listening in the U.S. and around the world, selling some forty million records over the course of his prolific career. Grand Prix du MIDEM and Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres since 1997, Paul Mauriat died in Perpignan (Pyrénées-Orientales) on November 3, 2006, aged eighty-one.

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