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Michel Jean Legrand is born in Paris, France, Europe. He will find international acclaim as composer, arranger, conductor and jazz pianist Michel Legrand. A prolific composer, he will write over 200 film and television scores, and will win his first Oscar for the song The Windmills of Your Mind from the 1968 movie The Thomas Crown Affair.