13 jours en France (Cover)

This is the Duet music video by Mimei Sakamoto & Benjamin Legrand(Son of Michel Legrand). They chose this song to commemorate the 2024 Olympic in france.
This song "13jours en france" is a theme song of the same title movie "13jours en France
(白い恋人たち)". The movie is a documentary film by Guy Gilles and Claude Lelouche in 1968.
Mimei met Benjamin in 2017 at first in Paris. Japanese pianist Makoto Kuruya introduced
Mimei to Benjamin for their first duet songs "Un home et une femme" and "What are you doing the rest of your life". "Un home et une femme" is also the composition of Francis Lai. So it is meaningful for them to duet the work of Francis Lai one time again.

Mimei and Benjamin love this beautiful music,and Benjamin was a friend of the composer Francis Lai, because his father Michel Legrand made music with Francis Lai. Mimei met Pierre Barough in Japan and visited his wife's live house "Saravah! Tokyo" many times .
It is sorry Francis died in 2018. Pierre Barough also died in 2016. But Mimei and Benjamin want to devote this recording to them.

Even now the melody and the words are beautiful and fresh . If we can renew their beautiful song with new taste , we are very happy !
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　23th June 2024
staffs

-Vocals -
Mimei Sakamoto & Benjamin Legrand

-Music -
Francis Lai
- Lyrics -
Pierre Barouh

Arrangement / Music Director / Piano
Jean-Claude Orfali

1st violin : Henri Gouton
2nd violin : Julien Bezias
Alto : Iara Teixeira Martins
Cello : Gwendeline Lumaret
Accordeon : Ludovic Beier
Piano : Jean-Claude Orfali

Sound Engineer & Mix : Pierre Dachery(Studio Prado)
Mastering : Abbey Road Studio
Mastering Engineer : Geoff Pesche
Mastering Coordinator : Martin Nagano

Producer : Mimei Sakamoto