Jean-Michel Andre Jarre is a French composer, performer and record producer.
57 Facts About Jean-Michel Jarre
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Jean-Michel Jarre is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient and new-age genres, and is known for organising outdoor spectacles featuring his music, accompanied by vast laser displays, large projections and fireworks.
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Oxygene was followed in 1978 by Equinoxe, and in 1979, Jean-Michel Jarre performed to a record-breaking audience of more than a million people at the Place de la Concorde, a record he has since broken three times.
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Jean-Michel Jarre was the first Western musician officially invited to perform in the People's Republic of China and holds the world record for the largest-ever audience at an outdoor event for his Moscow concert on 6 September 1997, which was attended by 3.5 million people.
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Jean-Michel Jarre was born in Lyon on 24 August 1948, to Francette Pejot, a French Resistance member and concentration camp survivor, and composer Maurice Jarre.
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When Jean-Michel Jarre was five, his parents separated and his father moved to the United States, leaving him with his mother.
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Jean-Michel Jarre did not see his father again until reaching the age of 18.
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Jean-Michel Jarre's grandfather was an oboe player, engineer and inventor, designing an early audio mixer used at Radio Lyon.
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From his vantage point high above the pavement, the young Jean-Michel Jarre was able to observe street performers at work, an experience he later cited as proving influential on his art.
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Jean-Michel Jarre struggled with classical piano studies, although he later changed teachers and worked on his scales.
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Jean-Michel Jarre often accompanied his mother to Le Chat Qui Peche, a Paris jazz club run by one of her friends from her resistance years, where saxophonists Archie Shepp and John Coltrane, and trumpet players Don Cherry and Chet Baker were regular performers.
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Jean-Michel Jarre was influenced by the work of French artist Pierre Soulages, whose exhibition at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris he attended.
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Jean-Michel Jarre is the goddess, the Maria Callas of the Orient.
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Jean-Michel Jarre was introduced to the Moog modular synthesizer and spent time working at the studio of influential German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen in Cologne.
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In 1971 Jean-Michel Jarre was commissioned by choreographer Norbert Schmucki to perform a ballet called AOR, at the Palais Garnier.
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Jean-Michel Jarre composed background music for ballet, theatre, television programs, department stores, and advertising jingles for Pepsi-Cola, Nestle and RTL.
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From 1972 to 1975, Jean-Michel Jarre wrote music and lyrics for artists like Francoise Hardy, Gerard Lenorman, Christophe and Patrick Juvet.
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Jarre initially was turned down by several record companies, until Jean-Michel decided to meet with Francis Dreyfus, the head of the Disques Motors label, to see if he could release the album, to which he accepted.
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Jean-Michel Jarre is quite exceptional and we're sure that by 1980 he will be recognised worldwide.
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The album uses sounds from the Fairlight CMI, a new instrument of which Jean-Michel Jarre was a pioneer.
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The Republic invited Jean-Michel Jarre to become the first western musician to play in post-Mao Zedong China.
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Between February and May 1983, Jean-Michel Jarre recorded a single LP copy of an album entitled Musique pour Supermarche whose objective was to be the soundtrack of a show called Orrimbe, to later be auctioned with the master tapes and plates destroyed.
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The album was later broadcast exclusively on Radio Luxembourg with Jean-Michel Jarre encouraging listeners to record the broadcast.
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In 1985, Jean-Michel Jarre was invited by the musical director of the Houston Grand Opera to perform a concert celebrating Texas's 150th anniversary on 5 April 1986.
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Also, 1985 marked the 25th anniversary of the foundation of the Lyndon B Johnson Space Center; and NASA asked Jarre to integrate the anniversary into the concert.
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Jean-Michel Jarre worked with several Houston-based astronauts, including Bruce McCandless II and Ronald McNair, an accomplished musician who was to have played the saxophone on "Rendez-Vous VI", recorded in the weightless environment of space.
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Consideration was given to the cancellation of the concert; but McCandless contacted Jean-Michel Jarre and urged him to proceed, in memory of the shuttle's crew.
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In 1988, Jean-Michel Jarre released his ninth studio album Revolutions, and in same year, a concert called Destination Docklands was planned for September, to be held at the Royal Victoria Dock in east London.
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Close to the heart of London, the location was chosen in part for its desolate environment, but because Jean-Michel Jarre thought the architecture was ideally suited for his music.
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Early in 1988 Jean-Michel Jarre met with local officials and members of the community, but Newham Borough Council delayed their decision until 12 September the month in which the show was due to take place.
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In 1990, Jean-Michel Jarre released En Attendant Cousteau, a tribute to the French oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau.
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Jean-Michel Jarre later promoted a concert near the Pyramids of Teotihuacan in Mexico, to be held during the solar eclipse of 11 July 1991.
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Jean-Michel Jarre's disappointment was such that he "could not cope with Mexican food for two years".
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Jean-Michel Jarre was invited to the inaugural celebrations of the Palace of the Lost City, a hotel located within the Sun City in South Africa.
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Jean-Michel Jarre performed many of his most well-known hits at the Concert for Tolerance on Bastille Day in 1995, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the United Nations.
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Jean-Michel Jarre gave two performances, the first at the Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City, and the second in Tiananmen Square.
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In September 2004, Jean-Michel Jarre released both a DVD and a CD in one package AERO.
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Jean-Michel Jarre used the minimalist imagery to reinforce the audio content of the DVD.
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Jean-Michel Jarre performed 10 concerts in December 2007, held in the Theatre Marigny, located in the Champs-Elysees, Paris.
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Later in 2008 Jean-Michel Jarre performed several concerts to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Oxygene, in theaters in Europe.
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On 1 July 2011, Jean-Michel Jarre performed a large-scale concert in Monaco to celebrate the marriage of Prince Albert and his bride Charlene.
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In Spring 2015, Jean-Michel Jarre released the first music from a new studio album, released in October 2015, following around four years of work.
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On 5 October 2016, Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 announced that Jean-Michel Jarre would be a member of its advisory panel.
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The transmedia is composed of a web documentary using Zoolooks creative process involving 4 international artists ; a 52' documentary film directed by Beryl Koltz broadcast in September 2015 on ARTE ; and finally a participatory tribute music album whose tracks were chosen by Jean-Michel Jarre, entitled Zoolook Revisited.
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On 11 April 2016, it was revealed that Jean-Michel Jarre worked in collaboration with British virtual band Gorillaz on their fifth studio album Humanz.
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Jean-Michel Jarre composed during 2016 the soundtrack for the French news network France Info.
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In March 2018, Jean-Michel Jarre performed in South America for the first time as part of his Electronica Tour in Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile.
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On 7 November 2019, Jean-Michel Jarre announced the release of an application for the iOS operating system named EoN.
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The AI algorithm which composes on the fly based on the rules set by Jean-Michel Jarre was developed by BLEASS.
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On 31 December 2020, Jean-Michel Jarre held a virtual New Year's Eve concert online.
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Jean-Michel Jarre performed from a studio in Paris, but it appeared virtually from a Notre Dame setting.
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On 21 June 2021, Jean-Michel Jarre was awarded Commander to the Legion of Honour by French president Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris.
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In March 2022 Jean-Michel Jarre presented a live project, Oxymore, at Radio France's Hyper Weekend Festival located at Paris.
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Jean-Michel Jarre was married to Flore Guillard from 1975 until 1977.
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Jean-Michel Jarre met his second wife, actress Charlotte Rampling, at a dinner party in St Tropez in 1976.
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Jean-Michel Jarre and Rampling separated in 1996 and divorced in 2002.
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Jean-Michel Jarre had a brief relationship with Isabelle Adjani, and married French actress Anne Parillaud in May 2005.