Jean-Jacques Goldman
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.
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- 2024 · I Am: Celine Dion as Self (archive footage)
- 2024 · Pour toi Céline: La soirée évènement as Self (archival footage)
- 2022 · Il était une fois Champs-Élysées as Self (archive footage)
- 2021 · L'Énigme Jean-Jacques Goldman as
- 2021 · Céline Dion : une voix, un destin as Self
- 2021 · Jean-Jacques Goldman : la grande soirée anniversaire / la soirée continue as Self
- 2021 · Elle s'appelait Sirima as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · Jean-Jacques Goldman, de l'intérieur as Self
- 2016 · Goldman, un héros si discret as Self
- 2016 · Les Enfoirés 2016 - Au rendez-vous des Enfoirés as
- 2015 · Les Enfoirés 2015 - Sur la route des Enfoirés as
- 2014 · Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui as
- 2014 · Les Enfoirés 2014 - Bon anniversaire Les Enfoirés as
- 2013 · Les Enfoirés 2013 - La Boîte à Musique des Enfoirés as
- 2010 · Les Enfoirés 2010 - Les Enfoirés... la Crise de Nerfs as
- 2008 · Les Enfoirés 2008 - Les secrets des Enfoirés as
- 2005 · Les Enfoirés, 15 ans d'Enfoirés as
- 2004 · Comment tournent les violons : Jean-Jacques Goldman as Self - chanteur
- 2003 · Jean-Jacques Goldman : Un tour ensemble as Self
- 2003 · Solidarité inondations as Self
- 2002 · Les Enfoirés 2002 - Tous dans le même bateau as
- 2001 · Star Academy as Self
- 2001 · Les Enfoirés 2001 - L'odyssée des Enfoirés as
- 2000 · Du new Morning au Zenith as Self
- 2000 · Jean-Jacques Goldman - Souvenirs de Tournées as Self
- 2000 · Integrale des Clips 1981/2000 as Self
- 2000 · Les Enfoirés 2000 - Enfoirés en 2000 as
- 2000 · Jean-Jacques Goldman : Intégrale des clips 1990/2000 as Chanteur
- 1999 · Jean-Jacques Goldman - Tournée en passant 98 as Self
- 1999 · Céline Dion : Au cœur du Stade as Self
- 1999 · Johnny Hallyday Allume le feu au Stade de France as Self
- 1999 · Les Enfoirés 1999 - Dernière édition avant l'an 2000 as
- 1999 · A Year with Céline as Self
- 1998 · Vivement dimanche as Self
- 1998 · Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur as
- 1997 · Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés as
- 1996 · Les Enfoirés 1996 - La Soirée des Enfoirés as
- 1995 · Fredericks Goldman Jones - Du New Morning au Zénith as Self
- 1995 · Les Enfoirés 1995 - Les Enfoirés à l'Opéra-Comique as
- 1994 · Les Enfoirés 1994 - Les Enfoirés au Grand Rex as
- 1993 · Les Enfoirés 1993 - Les Enfoirés chantent Starmania as
- 1993 · Taratata as Self
- 1992 · Les Enfoirés 1992 - La Soirée des Enfoirés à l'Opéra as
- 1990 · Les Nuls, l'émission as Self - Musical Guest
- 1990 · Stars 90 as self
- 1989 · Les Enfoirés 1989 - Tournée d'Enfoirés as
- 1989 · Jean-Jacques Goldman : Intégrale des clips 1981/1989 as Chanteur
- 1989 · Traces as Self
- 1986 · Robert Charlebois en concert à Montréal avec Jean-Jacques Goldman as
- 1985 · Victoires de la musique as Self
- 1982 · Champs-Elysées as Self
- 1982 · Champs-Elysées as Self (archive footage)
- 1975 · Midi Première as Self
- 1972 · Le Grand Échiquier as Self