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Mike Francis, alias Francesco Puccioni (26.04.1961-30.01.2009), was born at 01:20 on April 26, 1961 in Florence, Italy. The choice of an English stage name comes from Mike's direct contact with American culture. Right after High School, although he thought of going to university, he began writing seriously his first songs, while at the same time studying composition and arrangement. Since his first album "Let's not talk about it", including the hit "Survivor", Mike carried through his activity as an author and composer with great success, other than for himself as in "Let Me In", for other artists, in this particular...

Francis Bebey (1929–2001) was a Cameroonian artist, musician, and writer. Bebey was born in 1929 in Douala, Cameroon. He attended the Sorbonne and Paris, France, and received further education in the United States. In 1957, Bebey moved to Ghana at the invitation of Kwame Nkrumah to all Africans from non-independent territories. Bebey took a job as a broadcaster. In the early 1960s, Bebey moved to France and started work in the arts, establishing himself as a musician, sculptor, and writer. His most popular novel was Agatha Moudio's Son. His writing and music often cross-fertilised, and he performed a song by...

I was born in 1966 in Epsom. FAMILY 'My Mum and Dad were listening to James Last and stuff like that so I didn’t get much influence from them. I got to about 14 and realised that I enjoyed dancing ­ I started listening to early soul stuff, Motown, that kind of thing. I actually got into a bit of rock when I was 15. That was my brother’s influence really ­ his room was next to mine and I had to listen to it every day. I wasn’t into school really. I wasn’t really very good at school but...

Francis Cabrel nasceu em Agen, França no dia 23 de novembro de 1953. Atualmente mora em Astaffort, França, casado, pai de duas meninas, Manon e Aurélie. Em 2005, adotou uma vietnamita. Ele é compositor e intérprete. Sua fonte de inspiração quando adolescente foi Bob Dylan, do qual ele conhece de cor todas as músicas. Com 16 anos, após ter ganhado um violão de seu tio, já tocava músicas de Bob Dylan e Neil Young. Faz coleções de guitarras e já possui umas cinqüenta delas... Albuns em estúdio * 1977 : Les Murs de poussière * 1979 : Les Chemins de...