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Famous composer and pianist Michel Legrand has dies at the age of 87, Ria Novosti agency reported. Michel Legrand was a musical composer, jazz and classical pianist and an accomplished arranger and conductor who performed with orchestras all over the world.

Legrand was born in the Bécon les Bruyères district of Courbevoie, a suburb of Paris, France in 1932. His father Raymond Legrand was a conductor and composer renowned for hits such as Irma la douce, and his mother was Marcelle Der Mikaëlian (sister of conductor Jacques Hélian), who married Legrand Senior in 1929. His maternal grandfather was of Armenian descent.

Legrand has composed more than two hundred film and television scores and several musicals and has made well over a hundred albums. He has won three Oscars (out of 13 nominations) and five Grammys and has been nominated for an Emmy. He was twenty-two when his first album, I Love Paris, became one of the best-selling instrumental albums ever released.