1. Jean-Jacques Goldman received his most notable recognition in the English-speaking world with a 1997 Grammy Award for Album of the Year as co-author of three tracks on Celine Dion's album Falling into You.
16 Facts About Jean-Jacques Goldman
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Meanwhile, Jean-Jacques Goldman earned a business degree from the Ecole des hautes etudes commerciales du Nord in Lille.
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Jean-Jacques Goldman first entered the French music scene as a member of a progressive rock group named Tai Phong, which released its first album in 1975.
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In reaction, at the end of 1985 Jean-Jacques Goldman purchased a full-page rebuttal in two major newspapers in which he displayed excerpts from his harshest reviews.
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From 1990 to 1995, Jean-Jacques Goldman went on to perform in a musical trio called Fredericks Jean-Jacques Goldman Jones with Carole Fredericks and Michael Jones.
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Jones joined the band after Jean-Jacques Goldman decided to stop touring, and the trio had their first breakout hit in 1985 with "Je te donne".
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Jean-Jacques Goldman had remarried in 2001 to Nathalie Thu Hong-Lagier, a young fan who was then studying mathematics and who would later earn her PhD in pure mathematics.
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Since then, Jean-Jacques Goldman has remained elusive and largely absent from the French media.
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Jean-Jacques Goldman continued to compose and produce a few songs for other artists sometimes lending his voice to musical collaborations with others.
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Jean-Jacques Goldman crafted and produced the eponymous song, then with Coluche brought in other French celebrities to perform it as an extended troupe.
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Some song's lyrics were deemed "reactionary", with Jean-Jacques Goldman being accused of an unfair portrayal of current youth and a desire to create a pointless opposition between young and old generations.
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Jean-Jacques Goldman wrote and produced two whole albums for her: D'eux in 1995, which is still the best-selling French album in history with 10 million copies sold worldwide, and S'il suffisait d'aimer in 1998.
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Jean-Jacques Goldman has collaborated with Patricia Kaas, Garou, Marc Lavoine, Gerald De Palmas, Patrick Fiori, Khaled, Lorie and Florent Pagny, as well as jazzman Chet Baker, Supertramp's saxophonist John Helliwell, Joe Cocker, "king of soul" Ray Charles and American songwriter Diane Warren.
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From 1975 to 1997, Jean-Jacques Goldman was married to Catherine Morlet, a psychologist.
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Jean-Jacques Goldman's younger brother Robert Goldman is a songwriter.
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Jean-Jacques Goldman was the leader of the Les Enfoires charity ensemble from 1986 to 2016.