Jean Michel Jarre Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
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Biography
Jean Michel Jarre (born August 24, 1948) is a French composer of electronic music. He is the son of Maurice Jarre, a composer of film music, who has written the scores to such films as Lawrence Of Arabia and Dr. Zhivago, among many others. His album Oxygene launched in 1976 was a big success worldwide, the song Oxygene Part IV becoming one of the best-known pieces of electronic music ever. His album Equinoxe also was a big success (especially Part V).
He was married to British actress and photographer Charlotte Rampling. In 2002 he became engaged to French actress Isabelle Adjani, but later she ended this relationship.
In October 1981, Jarre was the first Western pop-artist who was granted to give concerts in the People's Republic of China. One of these concerts took place near the Great Wall. Jarre is well-known for staging spectacular outdoor concerts of his music, which feature laser displays and fireworks, and three of which appeared in the Guinness Book of Records for their large audiences, often of several million.
In 1983 he created the album Musique pour supermarchés (Music for supermarkets), which had a print run of only a single copy. Jarre destroyed all the master records from his studio work, allowed a Luxembourg radio to broadcast the album once and auctioned it to raise money for French artists. People recorded the album using their tape recorders while it was broadcasted on the radio, so we can listen to that album, at a very poor quality though (the radio station was an AM station).
In 1986 NASA and the city of Houston asked him to do a concert to celebrate NASA's 25th anniversary and the city of Houston anniversary. During that concert, astronaut Ronald McNair was to play the saxophone part of Jarre's piece Rendez-Vous VI while in orbit on board the Space Shuttle Challenger. It was to have been the first piece of music recorded in space, for the album Rendez-Vous. After the Challenger disaster of January 28, 1986, the piece was recorded with a different saxophonist, retitled Ron's piece and the album dedicated to the seven Challenger astronauts. The Houston concert entered the Guinness Book of Records for the audience of over 1.5 million.
In 1999 he created a spectacular music and light show in the egyptian desert, near Giza. The show, called The 12 Dreams of the Sun, celebrated the new millennium and 5000 years of civilization in Egypt. It also offered a preview of the new Jarre album, Metamorphoses.
In 2000 he performed a concert in collaboration with Arthur C. Clarke and Tetsuya Komuro in the Okinawa beaches, to celebrate the "real" beginning of the new millennium. The concert was called Rendez-vous in Space and the group called itself The ViZitors.
In 2002 he performed the Aero show at Grammel Vra Enge wind farm , just outside Aalborg in Denmark to a rather wet audience of approximately 50000.
On October 10th, 2004 he gave a big concert in the Forbidden City and the Tiananmen Square in China, due to the "Year of France in China". The audience was of about 15,000 spectators, most of them special guests, but also a small number of international fans. No fireworks were used due to security concerns. This concert was broadcasted in HDTV with 5.1 sound by some satellite channels. 5.1 sound was also used on the stage. It included music from the AERO compilation album, as well as some songs not by Jarre.
Prizes and recognitions
1976 - "Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros" for "Oxygene".
1976 - "Grand Prix du Disque" for "Oxygene".
1976 - "Personality of The Year" by People magazine (USA).
1979 - Guinness Book of Records entry for the biggest concert ever.
1981 - Honorary member of the Beijing Conservatory of Music.
1985 - Instrumental music album of the year for "Zoolook" in the USA. "Prix de l'Académie Charles Cros" and "Victories de la Musique" in France.
1987 - "Victories De La Musique" for "Rendez-vous Houston". New Guinness Book of Records entry for the biggest concert ever. "European musicin Person of the Year" by People magazine.
1990 - New Guinness Book of Records entry for the biggest concert ever ("Paris La Defense: A City in Concert").
1994 - "Victories de La Musique" for the "Europe in Concert" tour. Awarded Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur from the French Government.
1998 - IFPI's Platinum Europe Award.
He is an UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador since 1993.
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