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Jean-Jacques Goldman
Paris, France
Jean-Jacques Goldman (born October 11, 1951) is a retired French singer-songwriter and music record producer. He is hugely popular in the French-speaking world. Since the death of…
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Jean-Jacques Goldman (born October 11, 1951) is a retired 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.
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2026
Il était une Voix... Céline Dion
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2025
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2025
Vos 40 chansons préférées des Enfoirés
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2025
Céline Dion raconte D'eux
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
I Am: Celine Dion
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2024
Pour toi Céline: La soirée évènement
Movie Self (archival footage)
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2022
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2021
L'Énigme Jean-Jacques Goldman
Movie Self
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2021
Céline Dion : une voix, un destin
Movie Self
- 2021
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2021
Elle s'appelait Sirima
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2020
Le Show de Noël Must Go On
Movie Thanks
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2017
Jean-Jacques Goldman, de l'intérieur
Movie Self
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2016
Goldman, un héros si discret
Movie Self
- 2016
- 2015
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- 2014
- 2014
- 2013
- 2010
- 2008
- 2005
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2004
Comment tournent les violons : Jean-Jacques Goldman
Movie Self - chanteur
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2003
Jean-Jacques Goldman : Un tour ensemble
Movie Self
- 2003
- 2003
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2003
Solidarité inondations
Movie Self
- 2002
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2001
Star Academy
TV show Self
- 2001
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2000
Du new Morning au Zenith
Movie Self
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2000
Jean-Jacques Goldman - Souvenirs de Tournées
Movie Self
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2000
Integrale des Clips 1981/2000
Movie Self
- 2000
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2000
Jean-Jacques Goldman : Intégrale des clips 1990/2000
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1999
Jean-Jacques Goldman - Tournée en passant 98
Movie Self
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1999
Céline Dion : Au cœur du Stade
Movie Self
- 1999
- 1999
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1999
Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar
Movie Original Music Composer
