About Jean Michel Jarre

Jean Michel Jarre

Jean Michel Jarre is among the most popular French producer of music. Other than this, he is a performer as well as a composer. Jarre is considered as a founder of the music styles that include Mew Age, ambient, synthpop and electronic. He is also very popular for making the outdoor arrangements that would include fireworks, laser displays and different kinds of lights. Since childhood, Jarre started getting the training of piano. Since then, he was aware of different kinds of art styles. He had also been trained for performing in the streets. In addition, he was introduced to the musicians of jazz music and the singer Pierre Soulages.

In the beginning of his career, he joined a band as a guitarist. However his style of music was much under the effect of Pierre Schaeffer. The album through which jarred got the breakthrough in the music industry was Oxygene. This album was released in the year. The album was recorded in his home studio, however it sales reached nearly up to million copies. After this album, he released another album with the name of Equinoxe. This album was released in the year 1978. In the year1979, Jarre gave a performance at Place de la Concorde. This performance broke all the records attracting more than a million people to attend his performance. Since this performance, he has broken his own record three times. After this, he released more of his albums and gave performances at different places all around the world. In the year 2010, Jarre received a Life Time Achievement Award.



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    Ahead of the release of their new album Have Some Faith In Magic (which you can hear an exclusive stream of on DiS this week), Errors compiled a mixtape of their favourite tunes... More arpeggios here. MR 666 turns all the right knobs with every sound ...

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    I remember when I was a kid, I was discovering artists like [French synthesiser guru] Jean Michel Jarre on TV with my parents When you're a kid, it's so easy to 'get' things, you know You digest everything you listen to.'' Gonzalez didn't just absorb ...

  • Copy, Paper Upper Cuts, Vox Mod, Grapefruit - The Portland Mercury

    repeated over and over at different intervals of time to create spiraling fractals of sound in the manner of Tangerine Dream and Jean Michel Jarre. Paper Upper Cuts, meanwhile, is the ongoing concern of the equally prolific Papi Fimbres, who is putting the ...

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  • Kirk Degiorgio - Divine Logic - Resident Advisor

    The "divine" part probably comes from the wispy, Jean-Michel Jarre cosmicness which makes up the background, shining out like blinding sunlight through a chink in the curtains. Played together, the two form a nice dichotomy. In the Dub Mix, this divinity ...

  • Teacher faked 'slasher' stalking attack - Daily Telegraph

    The total bill for the police operation was 10,000. At Preston Crown Court, Frankcom who also teaches violin and guitar and plays keyboards in a Jean Michel Jarre tribute band broke down and wept as she admitted three charges of perverting the course of justice.


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