Prolific French composer Michel Legrand, who won three Oscars and five Grammys during a career spanning more than half a century, died Saturday aged 86, his spokesman said. Legrand lived in a musical whirlwind, with the same appetite for popular music to jazz, from conducting to film. "Since I was a child, my ambition has been to live completely surrounded by music, my dream was to not miss anything, which is why I have never focused on a single musical discipline," he said. He first won an Academy Award in 1969 for the song "The Windmills of Your Mind" from the film "The Thomas Crown Affair." He followed that with Oscars for his music for "Summer of '42" in 1972 and for ...
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