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Michel Armengot (born 1962), more commonly known as Art Mengo, is a French singer and songwriter. Though born in the French city of Toulouse, he was of Spanish descent as his parents had fled from Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. It is worth noting that Mengo was born with greatly diminished hearing. In fact, it was estimated by doctors that 70% of his hearing ability was missing. Despite this handicap, his mother gave him a keyboard as a plaything. It is now clear that this had an impact upon his future career. During his teenage years, corrective surgery for his ears helped him to regain his hearing ability. Music, however, was not Mengo's first career plan. Upon completing the baccalauréat, Mengo pursued chemistry and physics at university.