Paris: Three-times Oscar winner and French composer Michel Legrand has passed away last night at the age of 86 in Paris.
LegrandĀ had been scheduled to stage concerts in Paris in April. Legrand’s career spanned more than half a century and he has also won five Grammys. He has worked with Miles Davies, Ray Charles, Orson Welles, Jean Cocteau, Frank Sinatra and Edith Piaf.Ā
In 1969, he first won an Academy Award for the song ‘The Windmills of Your Mind’ from the film ‘The Thomas Crown Affair.’Ā He followed that with Oscars for his music for ‘Summer of ’42’Ā in 1972 and for ‘Yentl’Ā in 1984.
LegrandĀ first began working as an accompanist and arranger in the 1960s.Ā Legrand’s work for moviesĀ Les Parapluies de CherbourgĀ in 1964 and Les Demoiselles de RochefortĀ in 1967Ā won him Academy Award nominations.