Éric Mouquet (born 19 March 1960) is the co-founder of the band
Deep Forest
Deep Forest is a French music project that originally began as a duo consisting of Michel Sanchez (musician), Michel Sanchez and Éric Mouquet. They compose a style of world music, sometimes called ethnic electronica, mixing ethnic with electro ...
. He won a
Grammy Award
The Grammy Awards, stylized as GRAMMY, and often referred to as The Grammys, are awards presented by The Recording Academy of the United States to recognize outstanding achievements in music. They are regarded by many as the most prestigious ...
in 1995, and a
World Award for best world music album.
The other half of Deep Forest was
Michel Sanchez until 2005, when the latter parted ways with Mouquet in order to pursue his solo career.
[Yoga Journal No. 126 -- Jan-Feb 1996 - Page 129 "Michel Sanchez and Eric Mouquet, two Frenchmen who created Deep Forest, have topped the charts in England, Japan, and the United States. Sanchez is an organ virtuoso and Mouquet a self-taught keyboardist. Together they travel the .."]
Mouquet has composed and produced for different artists such as
Josh Groban
Joshua Winslow Groban (born February 27, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. His first four solo albums have been certified multi-platinum, and he was charted in 2007 as the number-one best selling artist in the United States, ...
(Closer), (Awake),
Ana Torroja (Mecano),
Mell
Mell (stylized as MELL) is a female Japanese singer from Sapporo, Japan, who is signed to Geneon Universal Entertainment
(abbreviated as NBCUEJ) is a Japanese music, anime, and home entertainment production and distribution enterprise tha ...
(Japan),
Chitose Hajime (Japan),
Sa Dingding (Deep China).
In June 2008, he started a new label called Deep Projects, to promote music inspired by travel and the meeting with musicians from around the world. Albums that Mouquet has worked on include ''Deep Brasil'' (released 2008), ''Deep Africa'' (released June 2013), ''Deep China'' (featuring Sa Dingding, currently unreleased), ''Deep Sky(currently unreleased)'' and ''Deep India'' (released February 2013 feat. Rahul Sharma).
References
External links
Deep Forest website
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1960 births
Living people
French musicians
People from Valenciennes
Musicians from Nord (French department)