Louis Gasté

ComposerActor Mar 18 (died age 86) Paris, France 1942–1987 (45 year career)

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Biography

Louis "Loulou" Gasté (18 March 1908 – 8 January 1995) was a French composer of songs. Louis Gasté was born in Paris in 1908. In his fifty-year career, he composed approximately 1,200 songs, ten of which were internationally successful. In 1929, he played in Ray Ventura's orchestra, and composed several pieces for him. He discovered and launched French singer and actress Line Renaud in 1945, and they married in 1950. He died at Rueil-Malmaison in 1995. In September 1956, Gasté composed "Pour T…