Jean-Claude Petit is a French composer and arranger, born in Vaires-sur-Marne. After accompanying jazzmen in his childhood, Petit went to the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied harmony and counterpoint. He did the string arrangements for Mink DeVille's Le Chat Bleu album, as well as orchestrating the backing parts to some French pop singles in the mid-to-late 1960s, including those of Erick Saint-Laurent and y�-y� girls Christine Pilzer and Monique Thubert. In 1973 he composed La le�on de Michette, a delicious, short song: it was so famous in Italy, because it had been used for a soundtrack of a well-known Carosello from 1973 to 1976. 1979 saw his first major film soundtrack commission, but he had been releasing solo records at least a decade earlier, including at least four for the Chappell Music Library, as well as his album Chez Jean-Claude Petit, released in the early 1970s. In 1976 he collaborated with Pierre Delano�, Toto Cutugno, Vito Pallavicini in a very popular and funky music for Mireille Mathieu called Ciao Bambino, Sorry. 

November 14th, 1943 in Seine-et-Marne (Age 81)