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Michel Polnareff, born in Nérac, France on July 3, 1944, is a French singer 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.

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. He learned piano by age five and was a very good music student. He learned the guitar, and after his studies, military service, and a brief time in insurance, he began to play his guitar on the steps of the Sacré Cœur.

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He has a namesake in Jean Pierre Polnareff, a character in the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga series.

On November 22, 2004, and again on December 18, 2005, France 3 broadcast a one and a half hour documentary entitled "Michel Polnareff Dévoilé" ("Michel Polnareff Revealed"). It includes images from rare files mixed with interviews with media personalities like Marc-Olivier Fogiel, Jacques Séguéla, Jean-Luc Lahaye and Frédéric Beigbeder explaining to the televiewers what Michel Polnareff represented for them and for France. Polnareff also revealed that he was working on a new album. On May 12, 2006, Michel Polnareff announced that he would be giving a series of concerts March 2 to March 14, 2007. Ticket sales have exploded, showing that Polnareff has not lost his gleam. On Bastille Day, 2007, Polnareff gave a free concert as part of Nicolas Sarkozy's celebration.