Biography
Deep Forest
Real name: Eric Mouquet & Michel Sanchez
Effective period / Period of releases: 1992 - 2021
Members: Michel Sanchez, Eric Mouquet, Didier Cresson
French group originally consisting of Eric Mouquet and Michel Sanchez. They helped popularize the so-called "Global Pop", ambient music combined with ethnic sounds. Their song "Sweet Lullaby" became a major hit and in the US over 2 million Deep Forest albums were sold. In 2005 Michel Sanchez left the band to start his solo career.Michel Sanchez and Eric Mouquet stopped working together after their 2004 soundtrack for the Japanese film Kusa No Ran. In 2008 Eric released his own 'Deep' album under the name Deep Projects. Eric followed up with two more solo world fusion albums in 2013, Deep India and Deep Africa, which were released as 'Deep Forest Eric Mouquet'.