Pierre Antoine Muraccioli

French pop singer, and also a sailor and adventurer, writer, photographer, and filmmaker. Born June 4. 1944 in Tamatave, Madagascar As a musician, he was compared in some ways to Bob Dylan or Donovan but also evidencing some of the harder-edged garage rock style similar to the Rolling Stones, the Animals, and Them,[ and achieving some measure of pop stardom. Beginning in the 1970s, he de-emphasized his musical endeavors (although he still writes and performs on occasion) in favor of a second career as a solo sailor and adventurer, which he has documented with many books and films.