Polnareff arrives very young in the capital, he lives with his parents rue Oberkampf and at the age of 12, he obtains the first prize in music theory at the conservatory. His favorite instrument: the pianobut it was with a guitar that he stood out a few years later on the steps of the Sacré Chœur.
“A Paris sur mer” is a song by singer’s 6th album “Coucou me again” in 1978. That year, Polnareff was already a huge star, he surfed on a dazzling career startmixing his American dream, sexual freedom, non-conformism and provocation like showing his buttocks on a poster.
And it is now from California to Palm Springs that Michel Polnareff manages his career as a good fatherhe comes back to say hello to us from time to time in Paris, but he swears, to the great God, not to go to Java, Calcuta, Sumatra or Panama because in Paris on the sea “there is sun shining night and day, it’s so hot around the corner from the rue du four”.