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Jean-Jacques Goldman

Jean-Jacques Goldman (born 11 October 1951) is a French singer-songwriter and music record producer. He is hugely popular in the French-speaking world. Since the death of Johnny Hallyday in 2017 he has been the highest grossing living French pop rock act. Born in Paris and active in the music scene since 1975, he had a highly successful solo career in the 1980s, and was part of the trio Fredericks Goldman Jones, releasing another string of hits in the 1990s. He also wrote successful albums and songs for many artists, including D'eux for Céline Dion, which is the most successful French language record to date. He was also part of the Les Enfoirés charity collective from 1986 to 2016, and got his most notable official recognition in the English-speaking world for winning a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1997, as a co-author of three tracks on Céline Dion's Falling into You. Despite a voluntary retirement from the music scene in the early 2000s, he remains highly appreciated and influential in France. Born in Paris to an immigrant Polish Jewish father, Alter Mojze Goldman (born in Lublin) and a German Jewish mother, Ruth Ambrunn (born in Munich), Jean-Jacques Goldman was the third of four children. As a child, he began his music studies on the violin, then the piano. In 1968, he abandoned his classical music studies for "American Rock & Roll" as well as folk music, listening to The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix or Aretha Franklin, and emphasizing the guitar. He also earned a business degree from the École des hautes études commerciales du Nord, commonly known as EDHEC, in Lille. In 1972, he met Catherine, his first wife, with whom he had three children. He first entered the French music scene as a member of a progressive rock group named Taï Phong ("great wind", "typhoon" in Vietnamese), which released its first album in 1975. Their first song to be a moderate hit was "Sister Jane". After three albums in English (on which he sang and played guitar as well as violin), Goldman was determined to write and sing in French, which led him to leave the band. ... Source: Article "Jean-Jacques Goldman" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.


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Born:
Oct 10, 1951 In Paris, France
Movie/TV Credits:
16
First Appeared:
In the movie Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur 1998-02-07
Latest Project:
Movie Elle s'appelait Sirima 2021-08-11
Known For
Filmography
Movie Elle s'appelait Sirima Self (archive footage) 2021-08-11
Movie Les Enfoirés 2016 - Au rendez-vous des Enfoirés 2016-03-11
Movie Les Enfoirés 2015 - Sur la route des Enfoirés 2015-03-13
Movie Les Enfoirés 2014 - Bon anniversaire Les Enfoirés 2014-03-14
Movie Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui 2014-12-13
Movie Les Enfoirés 2013 - La Boîte à Musique des Enfoirés 2013-03-15
Movie Les Enfoirés 2010 - Les Enfoirés... la Crise de Nerfs 2010-03-12
Movie Les Enfoirés 2008 - Les secrets des Enfoirés 2008-03-07
Movie Les Enfoirés, 15 ans d'Enfoirés 2005-11-25
Movie Les Enfoirés 2002 - Tous dans le même bateau 2002-02-22
Movie Les Enfoirés 2001 - L'odyssée des Enfoirés 2001-03-09
Movie Les Enfoirés 2000 - Enfoirés en 2000 2000-02-26
Movie Les Enfoirés 1999 - Dernière édition avant l'an 2000 1999-02-13
Movie Johnny Hallyday Allume le feu au Stade de France Self 1999-03-09
Movie Céline Dion : Au cœur du Stade Self 1999-08-30
Movie Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur 1998-02-07