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Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Paris, France

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Movie Involvements: 26

TV Involvements: 9


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

Midi Première
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10

Midi Première

(1975) Self
Taratata
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8

Taratata

(1993) Self
Le Grand Échiquier
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8

Le Grand Échiquier

(1972) Self
Victoires de la musique
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0

Victoires de la musique

(1985) Self (archive footage)
Stars 90
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6

Stars 90

(1990) self
Star Academy
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7

Star Academy

(2001) Self
I Am: Celine Dion
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8

I Am: Celine Dion

(2024) Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
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8

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

(2022) Self (archive footage)

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2024 Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2022 Self (archive footage)
2021 N/A
Self
Self
Self (archive footage)
2017 Self
2016 Self
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2015 N/A
2014 N/A
N/A
2013 N/A
2010 N/A
2008 N/A
2005 N/A
2004 Self - chanteur
2003 Self
Self
2002 N/A
2001 Self
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2000 Self
Self
Self
N/A
Chanteur
1999 Self
Self
Self
N/A
1998 Self
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1997 N/A
1996 N/A
1995 Self
N/A
1994 N/A
1993 N/A
Self
1992 N/A
1990 Self - Musical Guest
self
1989 N/A
Chanteur
Self
1985 (Male Artist of the Year)
Self
Self (archive footage)
1982 Self
Self (archive footage)
1975 Self
1972 Self
Year Character Movie/Tv

Directing

Writing

Sound

Year Role Movie/Tv
1999 Original Music Composer
1989 Music
Music
Year Role Movie/Tv

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