Essaï collaborated with Michel Legrand . They co-produced 25 songs together for " Les Demoiselles de Rochefort " and had a successful run at Palais des Congrès in Paris.Then he wrote " S'aimer est interdit " for the famous musical comedy " Le Roi Soleil " for Warner Music France . That album went double Platinum with over 3 million tickets sold during the three years of its run . In 2008 , he composed the soundtrack for the film " Incontrôlable " starring Michael Youn . Writing and arranging musical pieces for many shows Essaï also directed entire musical productions such as mythical Parisian Cabarets , " Bobino " . Since 2010 , Essaï has been the musical director for " La Bataille des chorales , Le grand show des enfants , Pop 's Cool , L'Ecole des fans " — all of them were on air on the TF1 channel ( France ) . Taking a big step across the Atlantic to the United States Essaï reached out to Kerry Gordy from Motown music . It was Kerry 's 14-year-old daughter who made her father pay attention , by giving him a score of 11 on a scale of 1 to 10 . Essaï is really concerned by the story of his grandparents and in 2015 for the centennial of the Armenian genocide , he wrote , composed and produced a song called " Je n'oublie pas / Chem Morana " , dedicated to the 1.5 million Armenian victims of the 1915 genocide
Armenian genocide
Armenian Genocide
Essaï Altounian