French producer born in1949. In the 70’s, while working for Pathé marconi, he worked with Motown and created Motown France.

For credits, refering his collections of photographies and records, please use Collection Gilles Petard.

As a collector of records, photographies and other documents related to 70’s black music, he produced some reissues for [l845394] (Denmark), created the french labels [l73432] (in 1989, stopped in 2008), [l58442] (in 1990), Body & Soul (2) (in 1998) and [l564833] (in 2003).
He also lead the EMI series Master of funk and Original funk and the Le Chant Du monde series [l585769]