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About

Passionate about music, Mike Poiré mixes swing and bossanova with smooth melodic pop and ballroom classics into his very own style. In that vein, Mike will as often cover a swinging jazz standard as a modern pop song and his original interpretations deftly move from earnest ballads to easy listening music and songs of melancholic nostalgia.

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Born in November 1978 in Ettelbruck (Luxembourg) and having played accordion, organ and drums since age seven, Mike later developed an avid interest in arranger keyboards and synthesizer workstations and lives his passion for these high-tech instruments until now.

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Having been on stage with his father since 1990 and playing strictly standard ballroom dancing music in the style of Bert Kaempfert, Paul Kuhn, Max Greger, Hugo Strasser and James Last, French "Musette" and Argentine Tango on the accordion, popular folk music, but also the songs of his pop & rock idols Billy Joel and Elton John, Mike got more and more inspired by the Great American Songbook, the repertoire of such music icons as Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Ella Fitzgerald and the fabulous John Pizzarelli who actually brought him to real swing music and bossanova. Logically, he also started to sing these standards just as a crooner does.

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Mike spent most of his formative years studying law and politics in Nancy (France) from 1999 to 2006 where he discovered a wide range of psychedelic alternative music. In that time, he also attended his first big live acts from artists like Francis Cabrel, Diana Krall, Stacey Kent, Pink Martini, Axelle Red, Laurent Voulzy, Madeleine Peyroux, Pascal Obispo, Norah Jones, Georges Moustaki, Katie Melua, Marc Lavoine, Sonny Rollins, Bugge Wesseltoft, Lisa Ekdahl, Sting and much more who inspired him deeply in the way of making music. His latest influences include Jamie Cullum, Jeremy Davenport, Till Brönner, Kurt Elling, Melody Gardot, Kevin Mahogany, Nils Landgren, ...

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Nowadays, Mike continues to explore his passion while insisting on high quality in every detail: the repertoire, the arrangements, the sound, the instruments, the microphones, the lights and even the cables. He can be booked as a solo musician or in duet with Manuela for various occasions and festivities in and around Luxembourg with one goal: pursuing the "finest music entertainment" credo. Style is coming back in style.

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Besides his love and passion for music, Mike works as a lawyer for the Council of State of Luxembourg and he has been elected mayor of the city of Mertzig in october 2017.