An emulator of Stevie Wonder, Gilbert Montagné scored his first international
hit in 1971 with "The Fool", before making a comeback in the 1980s. His
premature birth in Paris on December 28, 1951 was the cause of the retinopathy
that left him blind. After attending a specialized school, he discovered music
and taught himself to play the piano, before buying an organ to perform in
clubs. After an unsuccessful first 45-turn single in 1968, he joined his sister
in Miami and studied music while performing. In 1971, at the age of twenty, he
returned to Europe, to London, where he did ...