Jean-Jacques Goldman

Biography

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.

Known For

Les Enfoirés 2008 - Les secrets des Enfoirés

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Jean-Jacques Goldman : la grande soirée anniversaire / la soirée continue

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Elle s'appelait Sirima

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Solidarité inondations

Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui

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Jean-Jacques Goldman : Un tour ensemble

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Jean-Jacques Goldman - Tournée en passant 98

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Céline Dion : une voix, un destin

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Jean-Jacques Goldman - Souvenirs de Tournées

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Comment tournent les violons : Jean-Jacques Goldman

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Integrale des Clips 1981/2000

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Jean-Jacques Goldman : Intégrale des clips 1990/2000

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Jean-Jacques Goldman : Intégrale des clips 1981/1989

Les Enfoirés 2015 - Sur la route des Enfoirés

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Traces

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Du new Morning au Zenith

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Johnny Hallyday Allume le feu au Stade de France

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L'Énigme Jean-Jacques Goldman

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Un an avec Céline

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I Am: Celine Dion

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Fredericks Goldman Jones - Du New Morning au Zénith

Les Enfoirés 1989 - Tournée d'Enfoirés

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Goldman, un héros si discret

Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur

Les Enfoirés 1996 - La Soirée des Enfoirés

Les Enfoirés 1995 - Les Enfoirés à l'Opéra-Comique

Les Enfoirés 2002 - Tous dans le même bateau

Les Enfoirés 1993 - Les Enfoirés chantent Starmania

Les Enfoirés 1992 - La Soirée des Enfoirés à l'Opéra

Les Enfoirés 1994 - Les Enfoirés au Grand Rex

Les Enfoirés 2016 - Au rendez-vous des Enfoirés

Les Enfoirés 2014 - Bon anniversaire Les Enfoirés

Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés

Les Enfoirés 1999 - Dernière édition avant l'an 2000

Les Enfoirés 2000 - Enfoirés en 2000

Les Enfoirés 2001 - L'odyssée des Enfoirés

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Céline Dion : Au cœur du Stade

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Jean-Jacques Goldman, de l'intérieur

Les Enfoirés 2010 - Les Enfoirés... la Crise de Nerfs

Les Enfoirés 2013 - La Boîte à Musique des Enfoirés

Les Enfoirés, 15 ans d'Enfoirés

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Pour toi Céline: La soirée évènement

Robert Charlebois en concert à Montréal avec Jean-Jacques Goldman

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Fredericks Goldman Jones - Tours et détours

Un tour ensemble - bonus Chronique d'une année de tournée

Un tour ensemble - bonus Commentaires du spectacle