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At age 16, Distel became a professional jazz guitarist. Over his career he worked alongside Dizzy Gillespie and Tony Bennett and appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in the late 1950s after establishing himself as a French crooner.

Sacha Distel had a much publicized relationship with actress Brigitte Bardot but in 1963 he married skier Francine Bréaud . He reputedly broke off the relationship with Bardot after discovering her with another man.

In the 1960s, he composed 'La Belle Vie', a tune that made its way across the Atlantic as 'The Good Life', and most famously performed by Tony Bennett. French lyrics were added in the 1970s and it became Distel's signature tune. During the 1960s, he had his own variety show on French television.

During the 1970s, he became popular outside France, and once compèred the Miss WorldThe Miss World pageant (not to be confused with Miss Universe) is an international beauty pageant founded in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951. It started as the Festival Bikini Contest in honor of the swimwear getting notoriety at the time, but w contest in London. In this decade, he spent more time in the UK than in France.

Distel remained reasonably popular in France in the 1980s and 1990s, including a new show named for his song 'La Belle Vie'.

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Sacha Distel died on July 22, 2004 after a long illness in Rayol-Canadel , south-east France.