 Paul de Senneville began his career as a journalist working for big
French newspapers such as "France Soir" and "Paris-Presse", then he
became a TV program producer. As director of a record company,
Disc AZ, he started working with his passion: music.
Success came
very quickly and in 1976, Paul de Senneville set up his own record
company, Delphine Productions (named after Paul's first daughter,
Delphine), with
Olivier Toussaint.
Delphine in one of the leading French music exporters to the world
market. It is also the only company specialising in instrumental
music. Nowadays, the Delphine group represent 15 companies dealing
with various activities: an advertising film and clip production
company, an agency for advertising and casting actors and a casting
agency as well as two modelling agencies.
Paul de Senneville is a very famous French composer and has worked
with the top French artists such as Mireille Mathieu, Michel Polnareff,
Dalida, Claude Fran�ois... He composed Richard Clayderman's first
success: "Ballade pour Adeline" (named after Paul's second daughter,
Adeline). Since then, by playing Paul's music, Richard Clayderman
has become the French artist with the highest record sales in the world.
Actually, more than 100 million albums have been sold in 57 different countries,
representing 290 Gold records and 90 Platinums.
Besides music, Paul's hobbies are horse racing and collecting modern
paintings.
Paul's
most
notable
Richard
Clayderman
compositions
include:
G�rard Salesses was born in Toulouse, in the South of France. His
passion for piano made him become, at a very young age, an accompanist
for various French singers (Sylvie Vartan is the most well-known).
G�rard Salesses quickly turned from accompanist to arranger. He started
collaborating with Paul de Senneville and Olivier Toussaint in 1975.
G�rard has arranged hundreds of recordings for Richard Clayderman and
Jean-Claude Borelly (Trumpeter).
G�rard's
most
notable
Richard
Clayderman
arrangements
include:
Herv� Roy studied in the National Superior Conservatory of Music in
Paris and won the 1st prize in musical theory, harmony and counterpoint.
He also studied piano in the �Ecole normale de musique de Paris� (Grande
�cole of Music of Paris).
He became an arranger and worked for a large number of French artists
such as: Aznavour, Sardou, Hallyday, Polnareff, Vartan and Mathieu...
He started collaborating with Paul de Senneville and Olivier
Toussaint in 1970, 30 years later he is one of the most requested
arrangers for Delphine, and most of all for Richard Clayderman.
Herv�'s most notable Richard Clayderman arrangements include:
Bruno Ribera is probably among the 3 best French saxophone players,
and is also an arranger. Paul de Senneville and Olivier Toussaint
requires his talent for various recordings.
Bruno's most notable Richard Clayderman arrangements include:
Jean Baudlot is above all a guitarist. He became A&R director of a
record company in 1974. He joined Delphine Productions in 1979 as A&R
director and collaborates with Paul de Senneville on several
compositions for Richard Clayderman. In 1995 he set up his own recording
studio and specialises in producing jingles for TV and radio
commercials.
Jean's most notable composition collaborations include:
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