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JEAN MICHEL JARRE
BIOGRAPHY
1948:
Jean Michel Jarre soutenu à Lyon 24
août, dans une famille des musiciens. À un âge
très jeune, il est initié dans l'art du contrepoint, de
la fugue et de l'harmonie sous la direction de Jeannine Rueff du
conservatoire de Paris.
1968:
En parallèle à ses études
littéraires, il joint le groupe de recherche de musique
(Groupe de Recherches soirée musicale, GRM) et des travaux sur
des techniques électroacoustiques de musique sous la direction
de Pierre Schaeffer.
1969:
Apporte hors de son premier disque
électroacoustique - "La Cage".
1971:
Jean Michel Jarre apporte la musique
électroacoustique à l'opéra de Paris en
produisant les points pour le ballet "Aor".
1972:
"Deserted Palace", Jean Michel
Jarre's second disc. The same year he produces the soundtrack of Jean
Chapot's film "Les Granges Brulees" starring Alain Delon
and Simone Signoret.
1976:
"Oxygene" comes out. It becomes
the Number One record in the world and remains a success without
precedent in French record-producing history.
1978:
"Equinoxe" confirms this success
and makes a further contribution to electronic rhythms and sequences.
That same year, Jean Michel Jarre composes the music for Peter
Fleischmann's film "La Maladie de Hambourg".
1979:
One million people attend the concert
given by Jean Michel Jarre at "Place de la Concorde" for 14
July. That same year, he writes the music for Peter Weir's film,
"Gallipoli" starring Mel Gibson.
1980:
Brings out his third album, "Les
Chants Magnetiques". These more down-to-earth electroacoustic
songs represent a break with the atmosphere of his previous records.
1981: Concert
tour in Peking and Shanghai. Jean Michel Jarre is the first Western
musician to be invited to perform by China in the post-Mao era.
1982: "Les
Concerts En Chine". On his return from China, Jean Michel Jarre
immediately produces a double album that is a sound chronicle of his
Chinese adventure.
1983:
Spectacular new gesture by Jean Michel
Jarre who auctions "Musique Pour Supermarche", a disk
pressed in just a single copy.
1984:
"Zoolook", a disk with a
radically new tone, comes out and is voted instrumental album of the
year in France and the United States.
1986:
Jean Michel Jarre celebrates the 150th
anniversary of Houston (Texas) and the 25th anniversary of NASA at
one of the most spectacular concerts ever given in the history of
music. On this occasion, one and a half million Texans are introduced
to Jean Michel Jarre's new album "Rendez-vous".
On 5
October, Jean Michel Jarre gives a concert in Lyon, the city of his
birth, in honour of the visit of Pope John-Paul II. "Rendez-vous
Lyon", which was a baroque entertainment, and a blend of
classical and avant-garde, craftsmanship and hi-tech, of the past and
the future, will be remembered as an outstanding concert.
1987:
"Houston-Lyon, Cities in Concert",
a compilation album of the best moments of both concerts given in
1986.
1988:
"Revolutions". The Arab world
meets computers. One of Jean Michel Jarre's most ethnic records. In
October, Jarre gives two concerts in the London Docklands,
"Destination Docklands", on a stage set that is
half-derelict and half-renovated : a shocking mixture of graffiti,
violence, disused warehouses and new architecture.
1989:
"Jarre Live". More than ever,
Jean Michel Jarre's music incorporates the environment in which it is
played.
1990: "En
attendant Cousteau" which consists of two separate parts :
"Calypso", where the synthesizer meets the Trinidad steel
drum, and "En attendant Cousteau", music in suspension,
which is closely linked to the environment and whose ingredients
unfold slowly as time passes by : "Paris-La Defense" is
acclaimed on 14 July by an audience of two and a half million.
1993: Jean
Michel Jarre is once again in the spotlight. In May he brings out
"Chronologie", and between July and October he presents his
first tour, "Europe en Concert", to an enthusiastic public,
performing in fifteen of Europe's major metropolises. This time, he
transforms the site on which he performs into an imaginary city of
music, images and light. From Lausanne to Seville, via Wembley and
Versailles, these concerts were an absolute triumph.
That same
year, he is appointed "UNESCO's goodwill Ambassador".
1994: On
11 March, Jean Michel Jarre inaugurates Hong Kong City Arena at a
one-off concert. On 14 November, the double live album "Hong
Kong" comes out.
1995:
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of
the United Nations and the Year for Tolerance, Jean Michel Jarre
brought together over one and a half million people in front of the
Eiffel Tower to celebrate the 14th July at a "Concert pour la
Tolerance". A traditional Arab orchestra, giant puppets from the
Caribbean, African percussionists and singers and the Algerian singer
Khaled took part in this event.
1996:
He opens his first web site in association
with the French Ministry of Culture "Un espace pour la
Tolerance" (A Space for Tolerance) and devotes himself to the
task of producing his new album recorded in his own studio.
1997:
"OXYGENE 7-13" launched
worldwide on 18 February.
Preformed Oxygene Tour thru Europe, the
first indoor Tour. Infact the first Tour ever for Jean Michel
Jarre.
OXYGENE in Moscow : on 6 September, Jean Michel Jarre
performs live in front of 3.5 million people as part of the
celebrations surrounding the city's 850th anniversary.
On 12
November : worldwide launch of "Complete Oxygene - Part 1/6 -
Part 7/13 + Oxygene in Moscow".
1998:
30 March - "Rendez-vous '98"
single comes out. This single features in the Official album of the
Football World Cup.
12 May - worldwide launch of "ODYSSEY
THROUGH O2". The first interactive multimedia album.
14 July
- Concert "Nuit Electronics" for the celebration of the
World Football Cup, held during 12 june until 12 july.