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Michel Polnareff Born 3 July 1944 (1944-07-03) (age 67) Origin Nérac, France Genres Folk-Rock, Rock, Psychedelic Pop, Pop, Jazz-Rock Occupations Singer, Songwriter Instruments singing, Piano, Guitar, Percussions, Bass, Keyboards, Xylophone, Synthetisers Years active 1966--present Michel was born into an artistic family: his mother, Simone Lane, was a dancer and his father, Leib Polnareff or Léo Poll worked with Édith Piaf. Michel Polnareff, born in Nérac (Lot-et-Garonne) on 3 July 1944, is a French singer-songwriter who was very popular from the mid-1960s until the early 1980s. While his commercial success is considerably smaller nowadays, he is still active and critically respected. He continues to be revered as one of the greatest artists that France has ever produced, and possesses one of the most beautiful and versatile voices of any singer in the last 50 years. Here, with famed American trumpet player Bill Coleman, Polnareff displays his uncanny ability to mimic a trumpet, an act he included in several performances he gave in the 1960s.