Jean-Michel Jarre
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Jarre in 2016
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Jean-Michel André Jarre |
| Born |
24 August 1948 Lyon, France |
| Genres | Ambient, new-age, electronic, trance, progressive rock |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, musician, artist, producer |
| Instruments | Synthesizer, piano, organ, laser harp, accordion, guitar, bass guitar |
| Years active | 1972–present |
| Labels | Disques Dreyfus/BMG Rights Management/Sony, Polydor/PolyGram, Epic/SME, Warner Bros., EMI |
| Website | www |
Jean-Michel Jarre (born Jean-Michel André Jarre, pronounced: [ʒɑ̃ miʃɛl ɑ̃dʁe ʒaʁ]; 24 August 1948) is a French composer, performer, and record producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient, and new-age genres, and known as an organiser of outdoor spectacles of his music featuring lights, laser displays, and fireworks.
Jarre was raised in Lyon by his mother and grandparents, and trained on the piano. From an early age he was introduced to a variety of art forms, including those of street performers, jazz musicians, and the artist Pierre Soulages. He played guitar in a band, but his musical style was perhaps most heavily influenced by Pierre Schaeffer, a pioneer of musique concrète at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales.
His first mainstream success was the 1976 album Oxygène. Recorded in a makeshift studio at his home, the album sold an estimated 12 million copies. Oxygène was followed in 1978 by Équinoxe, and in 1979 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. More albums were to follow, but his 1979 concert served as a blueprint for his future performances around the world. Several of his albums have been released to coincide with large-scale outdoor events, and he is now perhaps as well known as a performer as he is as a musician.
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