Jean-Jacques Goldman

JeanJacques Goldman born October 11 1951 is a retired French singersongwriter and music record producer He is hugely popular in the Frenchspeaking 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 Deux 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 Englishspeaking world for winning a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1997 as a coauthor of three tracks on Céline Dions 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 JeanJacques 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 JeanJacques Goldman from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA