Michel Sanchez (musician)

For the footballer, see Michel Sanchez (footballer).

Michel Sanchez
Sanchez in 2013
Background information
Born	(1957-07-01) 1 July 1957 (age 68) Somain, France
Genres	World music
Occupations	Musician composer
Instruments	Keyboards piano organ accordion
Years active	1992–present
Formerly of	Deep Forest

Michel Sanchez during his 2011 Cross Road Tour

Michel Sanchez in 2013

Michel Sanchez (born 1 July 1957) is a French musician. He studied piano and classical organ percussion in his youth, and in 1992, he co-founded the world music project Deep Forest with Éric Mouquet, which won two Grammy Awards during that decade.^[1]

Sanchez left Deep Forest in 2005 to focus on his solo career, which he had launched in 1994 with the album Windows.^[2][3] He has since released eight further albums, including Welenga in 1997, with Wes Madiko.

Discography

with Deep Forest

• Deep Forest (1992)
• World Mix (1994 re-release of 1992 album)
• Boheme (1995)
• Comparsa (1998)
• Made in Japan (live, 1999)
• Pacifique (soundtrack, 2000)
• Music Detected (2002)
• Essence of Deep Forest (Japanese compilation, 2003)
• Essence of the Forest (compilation, 2004)
• Kusa no Ran (soundtrack, 2004)

Solo

• Windows (1994)
• Welenga with Wes Madiko (1997)
• Hieroglyphes (2000)
• The Touch (2008)
• The Day of a Paper Bird (2008)
• Eliott (2014)
• The Man and the Machine (2015)
• Ca Sent L'Jazz (2016)
• Windows II (2016)

References

1. "Michel Sanchez". Bandcamp. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
2. "Michel Sanchez". discogs.com. Retrieved 19 July 2025.
3. "Michel Sanchez". Spotify. Retrieved 9 July 2023.

External links

• Official website
• Michel Sanchez discography at Discogs