Yann Benoist
Yann Benoist (born 6 February 1951) is a French session guitarist, performer, singer , composer, conductor, and arranger. Early life. Yann Benoist was born in Dinan, Brittany. At age 8 his parents enrolled him in a music academy. They bought him his first guitar when he was eleven and he started learning to play with friends and different teachers. Career. When Benoist was 18 he started playing and singing with some local bands in Brittany and Normandy. During 1975 he worked with the Switzerland duet . The next year, he learned for a while with Pierre Cullaz (famous sessionman from  the sixties ) in Paris. By the end of the seventies he was a member of the quartet. They won the first prize at in 1978. That same year he got a certificate from the Berklee College of Music. Since then he has worked on stage or sessions for commercials, TV movies, TV shows, and musical comedies, with numerous French stars such as Renaud, Gilbert Becaud, Serge Lama, Patricia Kaas, Mireille Mathieu, Richard Bohringer, Jean Guidoni, Sylvie Vartan, Sheila (singer), Hugues Aufray, Jean-Luc Lahaye, Julien Clerc, Dave (singer), Patrick Hernandez, Nancy Holloway, Marcel Azzola, Sacha Distel, Murray Head, Maurane, Marie  Myriam, Francis Cabrel, Smain, Dorothée, Gilles Servat, William Sheller, Jacques Loussier, and Michel Legrand. In 1983 he was a member of Space, with Didier Marouani, for the first big tour organized in the USSR. They performed 21 concerts in Moscow's Olympic Stadium, Leningrad's Saint-Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex and Kyiv's Palace of Sports for about 600,000 people, and in 1992 they performed the first concert authorized on the Red Square in Moscow, for 360,000 people. In 1989 and 2002 he was musical director for Sheila at the Olympia. In 2011 he was conductor for Joel Prevost  at the Alhambra. He is a composer for APM Music and Universal Publishing. including :Gilbert Bécaud B+B(je t'appartiens) Composer Yann Benoist Lyrics Pierre Delanoë / Manny Curtis