Michel Sanchez

Michel Sanchez (* 1 July 1957 Somain, France). He spent much of this youth studying music (piano, classical organ percussion). Sanchez is the co-founder of the band Deep Forest with Éric Mouquet. He won a Grammy Award in 1995, and a World Award for best world music album.
In the early 1990s Sanchez mixed synthesizer with a traditional song from the Solomon Islands. This was the starting point of Deep Forest.

As a member of Deep Forest

• 1992 – Deep Forest (over 3 millions album sales)
• 1994 – World Mix (re-release of 1992 album)
• 1995 – Boheme (over 4 million album sales)
• 1998 – Comparsa (over 1 million album sales)
• 1999 – Made in Japan (live album, 150 000 copies sold)
• 2000 – Pacifique (soundtrack album)
• 2002 – Music Detected
• 2003 – Essence of Deep Forest (best of, released only in Japan)
• 2004 – Essence of the Forest (best of, three different editions)
• 2004 – Kusa no Ran (soundtrack album, released only in Japan)

Solo Albums

• 1994 Windows
• 1997 Welenga
• 2000 Hieroglyphes
• 2008 The Touch
• 2008 The Day of a Paper Bird
• 2014 Eliott
• 2015 The Man and the Machine