Michel Sanchez (musician)

Michel Sanchez
Born	(1957-07-01) 1 July 1957 Somain, France
Genres	World music
Occupation(s)	World music, film score, singer
Instrument	Keyboard / synthesiser / organ / piano / accordion
Years active	1992–present

Michel Sanchez (born 1 July 1957 in Somain, France) is a French musician. He spent much of this youth studying music (piano, classical organ percussion). Sanchez is the co-founder of the band Deep Forest with Éric Mouquet. He won a Grammy Award in 1995, and a World Award for best world music album.

In the early 1990s Sanchez mixed synthesizer with a traditional song from the Solomon Islands. This was the starting point of Deep Forest.

Discography

As a member of Deep Forest

• 1992 – Deep Forest (over 3 million album sales)
• 1994 – World Mix (re-release of 1992 album)
• 1995 – Boheme (over 4 million album sales)
• 1998 – Comparsa (over 1 million album sales)
• 1999 – Made in Japan (live album, 150,000 copies sold)
• 2000 – Pacifique (soundtrack album)
• 2002 – Music Detected
• 2003 – Essence of Deep Forest (best of, released only in Japan)
• 2004 – Essence of the Forest (best of, three different editions)
• 2004 – Kusa no Ran (soundtrack album, released only in Japan)

Solo albums

• 1994 – Windows
• 1997 – Welenga (with Wes Madiko)
• 2000 – Hieroglyphes
• 2008 – The Touch
• 2008 – The Day of a Paper Bird
• 2014 – Eliott
• 2015 – The Man and the Machine
• 2016 – Ca Sent L'Jazz
• 2016 – Windows II

External links

• Michel Sanchez