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Something You Didn't Know About Emmanuel Macron: He's A Pianist

An avid amateur musician, France's next president studied at the conservatory in his native Amiens as a child.
Incoming French president Emmanuel Macron, photographed in Berlin in January 2017.

There's a musical asterisk on French president-elect Emmanuel Macron's bio: He is an avid amateur pianist. It's a facet of his life occasionally noted in passing, as in this piece." Along with mentioning his abiding fondness for karaoke, Europe 1 reported that he studied piano for 10 years at the music conservatory in Amiens, where he won third prize.

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