- Most famous for writing the 1968 #1 hit, "Love is Blue," as well as the title song of the movie "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," which hit #76 in 1969.
- Hit #103 on the Billboard Singles Charts in 1968 with "San Francisco, Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair" (Philips 40550)
- Hit #109 on the Billboard Singles Charts in 1977 with "Love Is Still Blue" (Free Spirit 3001)
- Co-wrote with Franck Pourcel (using the pseudonym J.W. Stole) and Mauriat (using the pseudonym Del Roma) "I Will Follow Him" which was a #1 hit for Peggy March in 1963.
- Conducted his own orchestra during World War II.
- Between 1967-72 he wrote many songs for Mireille Mathieu. He also frequently orchestrated for Charles Aznavour and Melina Mercouri.
- Had his biggest fan base in Japan and South Korea, where he performed in more than 1200 concerts (his last appearance at Osaka in 1998).
- Hit #119 on the Billboard Singles Charts in 1969 with "Hey Jude" (Philips 40594)
- His father was a postal inspector who loved to play classical piano and violin.
- In 1935, at the age of 10, he enrolled in the Conservatoire in Marseille to study classical music, but by the time he was 17, he had fallen in love with jazz and popular music.
- Using the pseudonym of Del Roma, Mauriat was to have his first international hit with Chariot, which he wrote in collaboration with friends Franck Pourcel (co-composer), Jacques Plante (French lyrics) and Raymond Lefèvre (orchestrator). In 1992, the song was featured prominently in the film Sister Act starring Whoopi Goldberg. More recently, Eminem sampled it in his song "Guilty Conscience".
- Mauriat began playing music at age four.
- Relative to his peers, Paul Mauriat has one of the largest recording catalogs, featuring more than 1,000 titles just from his PolyGram era (1965-1993).
- In 1957, Mauriat released his first EP, Paul Mauriat, a four track RGM release. One of his first songs, Rendez-vous au Lavandou, co-written with André Pascal, was awarded the 1958 le Coq d'or de la Chanson Française.
- As a young adult, Mauriat started his own dance band and toured concert halls throughout Europe throughout the 1940s.
- Mauriat composed the music for several French movie soundtracks (also released on Bel-Air), including Un Taxi Pour Tobrouk (1961), Horace 62 (1962), and Faites Sauter La Banque (1964).
- In the 1950s, Mauriat became the musical director for at least two well-known French singers, Charles Aznavour and Maurice Chevalier, touring with both of them.
- In the early to mid-1980s, Paul Mauriat appeared in several Japanese coffee and wine television commercials, which featured music from his orchestra.
- In 1970s and 1980s, Mauriat released the entire albums that paid homage to his musical roots. "Paul Mauriat joue Chopin", "Classics in the Air" (volumes 1,2,3) features classical music, like Chopin's "Grande valse brillante", Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor", and Pachelbel's "Canon", given the "Mauriat" spin.
- In 2005, classical French Horn instrumentalist, Jean-Jacques Justafré conducted the orchestra during a tour of Japan and Korea.
- He has sold 6 million records in Japan.
- In 2002, Serge Elhaik published an authorised biography, Paul Mauriat: une vie en bleu.
- In 1994, he signed with Japanese record company Pony Canyon, where he re-recorded some of his greatest hits and wrote new compositions. Mauriat recorded many of these albums in both Paris and London, utilising several English classical musicians in these recordings.
- In 1969, Mauriat started his first world tour with his Grand Orchestra, visiting countries like the United States, Canada, Japan, South Korea, Brazil and other Latin American countries.
- Mauriat's former lead pianist, Gilles Gambus, became the orchestra's conductor in 2000 and led successful tours of Japan, China, and Russia. Gambus had worked with Mauriat for more than 25 years.
- After the '80s his recorded output slowed as his Western audience dwindled, but in the Far East he found a loyal following.
- Between 1959 and 1964, Mauriat recorded several albums on the Bel-Air record label under the name Paul Mauriat et Son Orchestre, as well as using the various pseudonyms of Richard Audrey, Nico Papadopoulos, Eduardo Ruo, and Willy Twist, to better reflect the international flavor of his recordings. During this period, Mauriat also released several recordings with Les Satellites, where he creatively arranged vocal backing harmony for such albums as Slow Rock and Twist (1961), A Malypense (1962), and Les Satellites Chantent Noel (1964).
- He was awarded the Grand Prix (Grand Prize) from the French recording industry, a MIDEM trophy, and in 1997 won the prestigious distinction of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres from the French Ministry of Culture.
- A line of saxophones and trumpets are named for Paul Mauriat, under the brand P. Mauriat, reflecting his popularity in their country of origin, Taiwan.
- Paul Mauriat's phenomenon in Japan started in the early 1970s. He is the only international artist who played two sold-out shows in one day at the famous arena Nippon Budokan in Tokyo.
- For several decades, some of Mauriat's compositions served as musical tracks for Soviet television programmes and short movies, such as the 1977 animated Polygon (film), "In the world of animals" (V mire zhivotnykh) and "Kinopanorama", among others.
- Mauriat retired from performing in 1998. He gave his final performance in the Sayonara Concert, recorded live in Osaka, Japan, but his orchestra continued to tour around the world before his death in 2006.
- Both Mauriat's single recording "Love is Blue" (1967) and the album Blooming Hits each sold over one million copies. The single was awarded a gold disc by the Recording Industry Association of America in March 1968.
- In 1965, Mauriat established Le Grand Orchestre de Paul Mauriat, and released hundreds of recordings and compilations through the Philips label for the next 28 years.
- In 1968, his late 1967 cover of the André Popp/Pierre Cour tune "L'amour est bleu" ("Love Is Blue") became a number 1 hit in the US. "Love Is Blue" was the first instrumental to hit number 1 on the Billboard charts since the Tornados hit with "Telstar" in 1962 and the only American number-one single to be recorded in France.
- Paul was a big fan of Japanese "Koshu" wine. He actually did a tv commercial for "Mercian Wine" in Japan.
- Le Grand Orchestre Paul Mauriat has been released the larger quantity of titles and volumes (in all over the world) of light orchestra recordings in its different formats (LP, CD, Laser Disc, VHS, DVD) and at the end of his career there were sold more than 60 millions of copies.
- Paul Mauriat not only cared about his fans in Japan, but he also took excellent care of members of his orchestra. After a concert, he took a small number of members of his orchestra out for dinner which was often held at a Japanese restaurant. He made it sure that every member was taken out for such dinner at least once during a tour.
- Mauriat was Great friend of the other Great Conductors such as Franck Poucel who influenced much of Paul's musical career and with whom had a closed relationship as a friend and as a professional; and of Raymond Lefevre with whom he shared his amity, work, arrangements, compositions and worldwide hits.
- Paul Mauriat, obtained the Grand Prix International of Record 1968 and the Charles Cross Trophy.
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