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BLP sources|date=November 2011Infobox musical artist| image = Jean-Jacques Goldman - may 2002.jpg| name = Jean-Jacques Goldman| caption = Jean-Jacques Goldman, during a concert in may 2002 at the Le Zénith|Zénith de Paris. & nbsp;| image_size =| background = solo_singer| birth_name =| alias =| birth_date = Birth date and age|1951|10|11| death_date =| origin = Paris, France| instrument = Vocalist, guitarist, pianist| genre = Pop rock Rock music|rock progressive rock New Wave music|New wave | occupation = Singer-songwriter| years_active = 1975–present| label =| associated_acts = Taï Phong , Céline Dion , Les Enfoirés , Fredericks Goldman Jones , Grégoire (musician)|Grégoire | website =| current_members =| past_members =| notable_instruments = Jean-Jacques Goldman (born October 11, 1951) is a Grammy Awards -winning French singer-songwriter. He is hugely popular in the French-speaking world, and since 2003 was the second-highest-grossing French living pop-rock singer, after Johnny Hallyday . In the 1990s, he was part of the famous trio Fredericks Goldman Jones with a string of hits.
Biography
Born in Paris to an immigrant Polish Jewish father, Alter Mojze Goldman and a German Jewish mother, Ruth Ambrunn, 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, emphasizing the guitar.His "conversion" is loosely chronicled in the song Un, deux, trois He also earned a business degree from the EDHEC Business School|École Des Hautes Études Commerciales , 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 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 singing four years and three albums in English with Taï Phong, Goldman was determined to do it alone and write and sing in French.
In 1981, Marc Lumbroso heard his recording " Il suffira d'un signe " on the album Démodé and signed him to a five-album contract with Epic Records . In 1982, his first hit album Minoritaire , which included the hit song "Quand la musique est bonne", was released; subsequent albums have all been successful. In 1987, he recorded the hit single " Là-bas (song)|Là-bas " with Sirima , which remained a popular song throughout the years. From 1990 to 1995, he recorded 2 studio albums, one live album and released several singles (such as " Nuit (song)|Nuit ", " À nos actes manqués ", " Né en 17 à Leidenstadt " and " Tu manques ") with Carole Fredericks and Michael Jones (Welsh musician)|Michael Jones , which were successful. Several of these songs were recorded with English versions, but did not find much success in England or the United States. In 2007, he recorded the hit " 4 Mots sur un piano " with Patrick Fiori and Christine Ricol.
Jones is a Welsh singer who had settled in his mother's native France. He and Goldman scored a hit in the early 1980s with " Je te donne " ("I give you"), a bilingual song with Jones singing the English lyrics and Goldman the French. Fredericks was an American singer, the sister of Taj Mahal (musician)|Taj Mahal who settled in France in the 1970's.
Jean-Jacques Goldman wrote the theme for "Resto du Coeur" the eponymous song performed by les Enfoirés as the theme of the charity created by Coluche , Restaurants du Cœur|Les restos du coeur . Throughout his career, he has frequently written for other singers, notably Celine Dion|Céline Dion , with whom he collaborated on '' D'eux (released in the US as The French Album ) that is the best selling French album in history with 9.000.000 copies worldwide, S'il suffisait d'aimer and 1 fille & 4 types , he has also collaborated with Johnny Hallyday , Patricia Kaas , Garou (singer)|Garou , Marc Lavoine , Gérald De Palmas , Patrick Fiori , Khaled (musician)|Khaled (" Aïcha "), Chet Baker , Lorie and Florent Pagny as well as Englishman Joe Cocker , and American songwriter Diane Warren .
His half-brother Pierre Goldman , a left-wing intellectual and convicted robber, was murdered in mysterious circumstances in 1979 in Paris. His younger brother Robert Goldman (french songwriter)|Robert Goldman is also a songwriter (often known as J Kapler).
http://www.rfimusique.com/siteen/biographie/biographie_6307.asp Biography of Jean-Jacques Goldman, from Radio France Internationale
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