Michel Delpech
French singer and actor
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- Jean-Michel Delpech (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ miʃɛl dɛlpɛʃ]; 26 January 1946 – 2 January 2016), known as Michel Delpech , was a French singer-songwriter and actor.
- Part of the baby boom, he was the son of Bertrand Charles Delpech, a chrome metal plater and Christiane Cécile Marie Josselin, a housewife.
- His maternal family (Josselin) are winegrowers in Gyé-sur-Seine in the Aube department.
- The young Michel spent weekends and holidays with his provincial family, sometimes working in his aunt’s grocery store.
- As a teenager, he became passionate about famous classic singers like Luis Mariano, and then great names from the 1950s like Gilbert Bécaud and Charles Aznavour.
Jean-Michel Delpech (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ miʃɛl dɛlpɛʃ]; 26 January 1946 – 2 January 2016), known as Michel Delpech, was a French singer-songwriter and actor.
Family
Jean-Michel Bertrand Delpech was born 26 January in 1946 in Courbevoie, a city located in the Parisian suburbs. Part of the baby boom, he was the son of Bertrand Charles Delpech, a chrome metal plater and Christiane Cécile Marie Josselin, a housewife. He had two younger sisters named Catherine and Martine.
His maternal family (Josselin) are winegrowers in Gyé-sur-Seine in the Aube department. His father's ancestral home is in Sologne, more specifically in Dhuizon, where his hairdresser grandfather lived and also in La Ferté-Saint-Cyr, where his uncles and cousins worked as grocers, loggers and farmers. The young Michel spent weekends and holidays with his provincial family, sometimes working in his aunt’s grocery store.
Career debuts
His parents having moved to Cormeilles-en-Parisis in Seine-et-Oise (today known as Val-d’Oise), Jean-Michel Delpech studied at the Chabanne college and in the Pontoise’s Camille-Pissarro high school between 1961 and 1964.
As a teenager, he became passionate about famous classic singers like Luis Mariano, and then great names from the 1950s like Gilbert Bécaud and Charles Aznavour. In 1963, while in high school, he created a little orchestra with his schoolmates.
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