Raymond Lefebvre

Raymond Lefèvre (1929–2008) was вorn on 20 November 1929 in Calais, France. He was accepted at the Paris Conservatory when 17 years old. During the early 1950s he played the piano for the Franck Pourcel orchestra. His musical career started in 1956 on the Barclay label and recorded his debut album that year. He worked on the French television programmes Musicorama (1950s) and Palmarés des Chansons (1965, 1966, 1967) accompanying such famous artists as Dalida, Claude François, Richard Anthony, with his own orchestra. From 1972 until the early 2000s, he undertook several successful tours of Japan. Lefèvre worked on the soundtracks of many Louis de Funès movies. He conducted entries four times at the Eurovision Song Contest, three times for Monaco (in 1961, 1962, and 1963), and once for Luxembourg in 1970. Raymond Lefèvre died in Seine-Port, France on 27 June 2008 at the age of 78.