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French pianist, composer, arranger, conductor, and record producer born in Aulnay-sous Bois (1942), died in 2019. Wrote the arrangements to international hits by Anne-Marie David, Jeane Manson, and Marie Myriam and was involved in the Eurovision Song Contest as a conductor on three occasions. In the disco era, often using the pseudonym Don Ray, he worked with Cyrstal Grass, Alec Costandinos, Cerrone, and Leroy Gomez. He also produced Santa Esmeralda's hit cover of Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood and their third LP, House of the Rising Sun. His single Got To Have Loving had cross-over success on pop radio, and charted to #44 in the Billboard Hot 100 in October 1978.