Yann Benoist is a French session guitarist , performer, singer , composer, conductor, and arranger. By the end of the seventies he was a member of the Francis Bourrec quartet. They won the first prize at La Défense Jazz Festival in 1978. That same year he got a certificate from the Berklee College of Music. Since then he has worked on stage or sessions for commercials, TV movies,TV shows, and musical comedies, with numerous French stars such as Renaud, Gilbert Becaud, Serge Lama, Patricia Kaas, Mireille Mathieu, Richard Bohringer, Jean Guidoni, Sylvie Vartan, Sheila , Hugues Aufray, Jean-Luc Lahaye, Julien Clerc, Dave , Patrick Hernandez, Nancy Holloway, Sacha Distel, Murray Head, Maurane, Marie Myriam, Francis Cabrel, Smain, Dorothée, Gilles Servat, William Sheller, Jacques Loussier, and Michel Legrand. In 1983 he was a member of Space, with Didier Marouani, for the first big tour organized in the USSR. They performed 21 concerts in Moscow's Olympic Stadium, Leningrad's Saint-Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex and Kyiv's Palace of Sports for about 600,000 people, and in 1992 they performed the first concert authorized on the Red Square in Moscow, for 360,000 people. In 1989 and 2002 he was musical director for Sheila at the Olympia. In 2011 he was conductor for Joel Prevost at the Alhambra. He is a composer for APM Music and Universal Publishing.