Paul Misraki

Over the course of over 60 years, Misraki wrote the music to 130 films,[2] scoring works by directors like Jean Renoir, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Becker, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Luc Godard, Henri-Georges Clouzot, Orson Welles, Luis Buñuel and Roger Vadim.

Born Paul Misrachi[3] in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey) into a French Jewish family of Italian descent, Misraki showed an early aptitude for music.

After the war, Misraki returned to France, working busily throughout the 1950s, a period when he was routinely scoring half a dozen or more films a year.

His first hit was 1935's "Tout va très bien madame la marquise [fr]," and during his careers in France, America and Argentina he wrote successful songs in French, English and Spanish.

In 1998, at the age of 90 years, Misraki collaborates with Singer Raquel Bitton on her American tribute to his songs in a CD entitled In a Jazzy mood.