Yann Benoist

Yann Benoist
"Studio de Bretagne" Auray 2011.
Background information
Born	(1951-02-06) 6 February 1951 (age 66) Dinan, France
Genres	Jazz jazz fusion blues rock folk pop rhythm and blues funk
Occupation(s)	Musician, composer
Instruments	Guitar
Years active	1969-present
Website	www.yannbenoist.net

Yann Benoist (born 6 February 1951) is a French session guitarist, performer, composer,conductor, and arranger.

Yann Benoist was born in Dinan, Brittany. At 8 his parents enrolled him to the music academy . Then they bought him his first guitar when he was eleven and he started learning to play with friends and different teachers .

When he was 18 he started playing and singing with some local bands in Brittany and Normandy. During 1975 he worked with the Switzerland duet Richard et Samuel (). The year after he started learning for a while with Pierre Cullaz (famous sessionman from the sixties ) in Paris. By the end of seventies he was a member of the Francis Bourrec ()quartet. They won the first prize at La Défense Jazz Festival  () in 1978. That same year he got a Certificate from the Berklee College of Music. Since then he has worked on stage or sessions for commercials, TV movies, TV shows, , Music comedy and with numerous French stars such as Renaud, Gilbert Becaud, Serge Lama, Patricia Kaas, Mireille Mathieu, Richard Bohringer, Jean Guidoni, Sylvie Vartan, Sheila (singer), Hugues Aufray, Jean-Luc Lahaye, Julien Clerc, Patrick Hernandez, Nancy Holloway, Sacha Distel, Murray Head, Maurane, Marie Myriam, Francis Cabrel, Smain, Dorothée, Gilles Servat, William Sheller, Jacques Loussier, Michel Legrand etc. .