Jean-Jacques Goldman (; born 11 October 1951) is a French singer-songwriter and music record producer. He is hugely popular in the French-speaking world. Since the death of
Johnny Hallyday
Jean-Philippe Léo Smet (; 15 June 1943 – 5 December 2017), better known by his stage name Johnny Hallyday, was a French rock and roll and pop singer and actor, credited for having brought rock and roll to France.
During a career spanning 57 ...
in 2017 he has been the highest grossing living French
pop rock
Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is a fusion genre with an emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude than rock music. Originating in the late 1950s as an alternative to normal rock and roll, earl ...
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
Fredericks Goldman Jones was the name of a famous French musical trio made up of Jean-Jacques Goldman, Carole Fredericks
Carole Denise Fredericks (June 5, 1952 – June 7, 2001) was an American singer best known for her work in French mu ...
, releasing another string of hits in the 1990s.
He also wrote successful albums and songs for many artists, including ''
D'eux
''D'eux'' (French for "Of Them, "About Them", or "From Them"; homophonic with , meaning "two") is the thirteenth studio album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, and her tenth French-language studio album. It was released by Columbia Records on 30 M ...
'' for
Céline Dion
Céline Marie Claudette Dion ( ; born 30 March 1968) is a Canadian singer. Noted for her powerful and technically skilled vocals, Dion is the best-selling Canadian recording artist, and the best-selling French-language artist of all time. Her ...
, which is the most successful French language record to date. He was also part of the
Les Enfoirés
Les Enfoirés (, 'The Tossers' or 'The Bastards') is the name given to the singers and performers in the yearly charity concert for the Restaurants du Cœur
The Restaurants du Cœur (literally ''Restaurants of the Heart'' but meaning ''Restau ...
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
The Grammy Award for Album of the Year is presented by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to "honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regar ...
in 1997, as a co-author of three tracks on Céline Dion's ''
Falling into You
''Falling into You'' is the fourth English-language and fourteenth studio album by Canadian singer Celine Dion, released on 11 March 1996 by Columbia/ Epic Records. The follow-up to her commercially successful album '' The Colour of My Love'' ( ...
''. Despite a voluntary retirement from the music scene in the early 2000s, he remains highly appreciated and influential in France.
Biography
Born in Paris to an immigrant
Polish Jew
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ish father,
Alter Mojze Goldman
Alter Mojze Goldman (17 November 1909 – 1988) was a Polish Jew who was active in the French Résistance during World War II.
He was born in Lublin after the death of his father. He fled to France at the age of fifteen because of anti-Semiti ...
(born in
Lublin
Lublin is the ninth-largest city in Poland and the second-largest city of historical Lesser Poland. It is the capital and the center of Lublin Voivodeship with a population of 336,339 (December 2021). Lublin is the largest Polish city east of t ...
) and a
German Jew
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ish mother, Ruth Ambrunn (born in
Munich
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), 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
The Beatles were an English Rock music, rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960, that comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are regarded as the Cultural impact of the Beatles, most influential band of al ...
,
Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most ...
or
Aretha Franklin
Aretha Louise Franklin ( ; March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist. Referred to as the " Queen of Soul", she has twice been placed ninth in ''Rolling Stone''s "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". With ...
, and emphasizing the guitar. He also earned a business degree from the
École des hautes études commerciales du Nord
EDHEC Business School (french: Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales du Nord) is a French grandes écoles business school with campus locations in: Lille, France; Nice, France; Paris, France; London, UK; and Singapore. EDHEC offers its flagship M ...
, commonly known as ''EDHEC'', in
Lille
Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Pref ...
. 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
Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. Init ...
group named
Taï Phong ("great wind", "
typhoon
A typhoon is a mature tropical cyclone that develops between 180° and 100°E in the Northern Hemisphere. This region is referred to as the Northwestern Pacific Basin, and is the most active tropical cyclone basin on Earth, accounting for a ...
" 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.
Marc Lumbroso saw his potential and managed to sign him a five-album contract with
Epic Records
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Sony Corporation of America (SONAM, also known as SCA), is the American arm of the Japanese conglomerate Sony Group ...
. That same year he released his first album, which he wanted to call ''
Démodé
''Démodé'' is Jean-Jacques Goldman's first solo album sung in French, set in 1981. It was recorded at the Studios Pathé in Paris and the Studio Vénus in Longueville. The album has also been released under the names ''A l'envers'' and ''Je ...
'' ("old-fashioned", "out of trend"), but the label refused so it was left untitled (although "Démodé" is now its unofficial title). "
Il suffira d'un signe
''Il suffira d'un signe'' is a song written, composed and performed by Jean-Jacques Goldman. It was released in September 1981 as the first single of his first studio album ''Démodé''. It is the track that launched Goldman’s solo career.
Ba ...
" was his first significant success. In 1982, he released a second album with no title – this time the intended title was ''
Minoritaire
''Minoritaire'' was a 1982 album by Jean-Jacques Goldman, his second solo album sung in French. It was certified
Certification is the provision by an independent body of written assurance (a certificate) that the product, service or system i ...
'', which was also refused as it was deemed un-commercial (and has likewise become its unofficial title). It featured several hits: "Quand la musique est bonne", "Comme toi" (inspired by a picture of a young Jewish girl who died in a
concentration camp
Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges. The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects". Thus, while it can simply ...
although the heartfelt lyrics never explicitly mention this specific historical context), "Au bout de mes rêves", and was his breakthrough album, with about 900.000 units sold. His third album in 1984, the first with an official title, ''
Positif'' (chosen as an ironic response to the refusal of the intended "negative" titles of his first two), contained new hits such as "Encore un matin" and "
Envole-moi
"Envole-moi" () is a French language song written, composed and recorded by Jean-Jacques Goldman taken from his 1984 album '' Positif''. The single sold over half a million copies and was certified gold. Goldman explained that the song is a "cry ...
", and performed even better with about 1.000.000 units sold. His fourth album, ''
Non homologué'' ("not approved", which continued his trend of ironically self-depreciative titles) garnered the hit songs "
Je marche seul", '
Je te donne" (a bilingual rock duet with
Michael Jones with Jones singing the English verses and Goldman the French ones) and "
Pas toi". He recorded a
double album
A double album (or double record) is an audio album that spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically either records or compact disc. A double album is usually, though not always, released as such because the recording i ...
in 1987, ''
Entre gris clair et gris foncé'' ("Between light grey and dark grey"), which launched a string of hits — "Elle a fait un bébé toute seule", "
Puisque tu pars
"Puisque tu pars" is a 1987 song recorded by the French singer Jean-Jacques Goldman. It was released in July 1988 as the fourth single from his album '' Entre gris clair et gris foncé'', on which it features as the sixth track in an extended ver ...
", "
''Là-bas''" (a duet with
Sirima), "Il changeait la vie" — and was a major success, with more than 2 million units sold.
Yet most critics were harsh, deriding his high-pitched voice, his style and demeanour (described as tame and innocuous) and his soft songs presumably marketed for teenage girls. In reaction, at the end of 1985, he purchased a full page in two major newspapers (''
Libération
''Libération'' (), popularly known as ''Libé'' (), is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968. Initially positioned on the far-left of France's ...
'' and ''
France Soir
''France Soir'' ( en, France Evening) was a French newspaper that prospered in physical format during the 1950s and 1960s, reaching a circulation of 1.5 million in the 1950s. It declined rapidly under various owners and was relaunched as a popul ...
''), displaying excerpts from his harshest reviews, with an ironic message to his fans at the end, again demonstrating his taste for unassuming self-promotion: "Thanks for coming anyway..." ("Merci d'être venus quand même...").
From 1990 to 1995, he went on to perform in a trio called
Fredericks / Goldman / Jones with
Carole Fredericks
Carole Denise Fredericks (June 5, 1952 – June 7, 2001) was an American singer best known for her work in French music. She was the younger sister of Taj Mahal.
Between 1990 and 1996 she was in the trio Fredericks Goldman Jones alongside s ...
(an American singer and chorist who had settled in France in the 1970s, the sister of
Taj Mahal
The Taj Mahal (; ) is an Islamic ivory-white marble mausoleum on the right bank of the river Yamuna in the Indian city of Agra. It was commissioned in 1631 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan () to house the tomb of his favourite wife, Mu ...
) and
Michael Jones (a Welsh guitarist and singer who had settled in his mother's native France, whom Goldman knew from Taï Phong—actually he joined the band when Goldman decided to stop touring—and with whom he had a hit in 1985 with "Je te donne"). Together they recorded two studio albums, ''
Fredericks / Goldman / Jones'' in 1990 and ''
Rouge
Rouge is the French word for "red" and may refer to:
Compounds
* Rouge (cosmetics), a cosmetic used to color the cheeks and emphasize the cheekbones
* Jeweler's rouge or iron(III) oxide
* Rouging, a form of corrosion applicable to stainless ...
'' in 1993 (inspired by the fall of the
Berlin Wall
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and the
end of the USSR—the title song features the
Red Army Choir), one live album, ''
Du New Morning au Zénith'', and released several successful singles, such as "
''Nuit''", "
À nos actes manqués", "
Né en 17 à Leidenstadt" (another song about war and how it affects people's lives), "Juste après" (inspired by a scene in a TV documentary about the work of
Médecins Sans Frontières
(MSF; pronounced ), also known as Doctors Without Borders, is a humanitarian medical non-governmental organisation (NGO) or charity of French origin known for its projects in conflict zones and in countries affected by endemic diseases. M ...
in
Congo showing a missionary sister's harrowing struggle to reanimate a newborn) and "
Tu manques". Several of these songs were later re-recorded in English, but did not find much success in England or the United States.
From 1997 to 2003 he returned to performing as a solo act, releasing two albums, ''
En passant
''En passant'' (, "in passing") is a method of capturing in chess that occurs when a pawn captures a horizontally adjacent enemy pawn that has just made an initial two-square advance. The capturing pawn moves to the square that the enemy paw ...
'' in 1997 and ''
Chansons pour les pieds'' in 2001, as well as two live albums, ''Tournée 98 En passant'' and ''
Un tour ensemble'', with new hit songs like "On ira", "Quand tu danses", "Sache que je", "Bonne idée", "Tournent les violons", "Ensemble", "Les choses", "Et l'on n'y peut rien". After a last concert in 2004, he suddenly stopped performing and recording, saying he wanted to spend more time with his family (he had remarried in 2001, to a young fan who was then studying mathematics and later got a PhD in
pure mathematics
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). In 2011, to shut down rumors about a possible comeback, he published a short text denying any plan of a new album or tour in the foreseeable future, and remains elusive, largely absent from the media.
He continued to compose and produce a few songs for other artists, though, sometimes lending his voice as part of a collaboration. For example, he recorded "
4 Mots sur un piano" with
Patrick Fiori
Patrick Fiori (; born Patrick Jean-François Chouchayan, 23 September 1969) is a French singer of Armenian descent.
Biography Beginnings
Fiori was born to a French-Armenian father (Jacques Chouchayan) and a Corsican mother (Marie Antoinette Fi ...
and Christine Ricol in 2007; it was a significant hit.
Jean-Jacques Goldman also had a prominent role in French charity acts from the middle of the 1980s, when in 1985 famous comedian
Coluche
Michel Gérard Joseph Colucci (, ; 28 October 1944 – 19 June 1986), better known under his stage name Coluche (), was a French stage comedian and cinema actor. He adopted ''Coluche'' as a stage name at age 26, when he began his entertainment ca ...
asked him to write a song to promote the initiative he just created,
Les restos du coeur, meant to provide food to poor people during the winter months; Goldman crafted and produced the eponymous song (reportedly written/composed in three days), then with Coluche they brought in other French celebrities (actors
Yves Montand
Ivo Livi (), better known as Yves Montand (; 13 October 1921 – 9 November 1991), was an Italian-French actor and singer.
Early life
Montand was born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Terme, Italy, to Giovanni Livi, a broom manufacturer, Ivo held strong ...
,
Catherine Deneuve
Catherine Fabienne Dorléac (born 22 October 1943), known professionally as Catherine Deneuve (, , ), is a French actress as well as an occasional singer, model, and producer, considered one of the greatest European actresses. She gained recogni ...
and
Nathalie Baye
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, soccer player
Michel Platini
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, TV host
Michel Drucker
Michel Drucker, CQ (born 12 September 1942 in Vire) is a popular French journalist and TV host. He has been on screen for so long on various shows and different networks, both public and private, that he once said that some people joked that h ...
) to perform it as an extended troupe (akin to "
''We are the world''", each singing a verse, or rather reciting, as none of them were trained singers), called
Les Enfoirés
Les Enfoirés (, 'The Tossers' or 'The Bastards') is the name given to the singers and performers in the yearly charity concert for the Restaurants du Cœur
The Restaurants du Cœur (literally ''Restaurants of the Heart'' but meaning ''Restau ...
(originally a very crude and offensive word, literally translatable as "covered in diarrhea", commonly meaning "the bastards" or "the assholes", which was a
gimmick of Coluche in his shows and has been somewhat watered down over the years, akin to "motherfucker"). After Coluche's death in 1986, he took over and became the main organizer of the annual charity concert and record, a role he kept fulfilling until 2016, when he decided to quit, after a song he wrote for that year's charity album, "Toute la vie", sparked controversy for its lyrics, which were deemed "reactionary", with an unfair portrayal of current youth and a pointless opposition between "young" and "old" generations.
Throughout his career, Goldman has frequently composed for other singers (sometimes using pseudonyms), most notably
Johnny Hallyday
Jean-Philippe Léo Smet (; 15 June 1943 – 5 December 2017), better known by his stage name Johnny Hallyday, was a French rock and roll and pop singer and actor, credited for having brought rock and roll to France.
During a career spanning 57 ...
(the whole ''
Gang
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'' album in 1985, among his most successful) and
Céline Dion
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. He wrote and produced two whole albums for her: ''
D'eux
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'' in 1995 (released in the US as ''The French Album''), which is still the best selling French album in history with 10 million copies sold worldwide, and ''
S'il suffisait d'aimer
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'' in 1998. He also worked with her on the album ''
1 fille & 4 types
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'' along with
Gildas Arzel
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,
Jacques Veneruso
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Career Alenda/Canada: 1976–88 ...
and
Erick Benzi
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He was previously part of the duo Die Form, with Gildas Arzel, and the group Canada (with Arzel, Jacques Veneruso, and Gwenn Arze ...
. The songs "
''If That's What It Takes''", "
''I Don't Know''" and "Fly" from her album ''
Falling into You
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'' are English adaptations of songs Goldman wrote for Céline. Also, her song "
Let's Talk About Love
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" from the
album of the same name is an English adaptation of Goldman's 1987 solo song "
Puisque tu pars
"Puisque tu pars" is a 1987 song recorded by the French singer Jean-Jacques Goldman. It was released in July 1988 as the fourth single from his album '' Entre gris clair et gris foncé'', on which it features as the sixth track in an extended ver ...
". He has also collaborated with
Patricia Kaas
Patricia Kaas (; born 5 December 1966) is a French singer. Her music is a mix of pop, cabaret, jazz, and chanson.
Since the appearance of her 1988 debut album '' Mademoiselle chante...'', Kaas has sold over 17 million records worldwide. She h ...
,
Garou,
Marc Lavoine
Marc Lucien Lavoine (; born 6 August 1962 in Longjumeau) is a French singer and actor. In 1985, his hit single " Elle a les yeux revolver..." reached number four on the French Singles chart and marked the beginning of his successful singing car ...
,
Gérald De Palmas
Gérald Gardrinier (; born 14 October 1967 in Saint-Denis, Réunion), better known by his stage name Gérald de Palmas, is a French singer-songwriter.
Biography
Early life
Gérald de Palmas was born in France. His father was a land surveyor ...
,
Patrick Fiori
Patrick Fiori (; born Patrick Jean-François Chouchayan, 23 September 1969) is a French singer of Armenian descent.
Biography Beginnings
Fiori was born to a French-Armenian father (Jacques Chouchayan) and a Corsican mother (Marie Antoinette Fi ...
,
Khaled ("
Aïcha
"Aïcha" (; ; ar, عائشة, Latn, ar, ʿāʾisha, ; arq, عايشة) is a song written by French singer-songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman, performed by Algerian raï artist Khaled. In 1996, the song was released as a single containing two ...
"),
Lorie and
Florent Pagny
Florent Pagny (born 6 November 1961) is a French singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He records his work in French, as well as in Italian, Spanish and English. His greatest hits include " N'importe quoi", "Savoir aimer" and " Ma Liberté de p ...
, as well as jazzman
Chet Baker
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Baker earned much attention and ...
,
Supertramp
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's saxophonist
John Helliwell
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,
Joe Cocker
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("On my way home" from the album ''
No Ordinary World
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'' is an adaptation from "
Là-bas"), "king of soul"
Ray Charles
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and North American songwriter
Diane Warren
Diane Eve Warren (born September 7, 1956) is an American songwriter. She has received several awards including a Grammy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, three ''Billboard'' Music Awards and an Honorary Academy Award.
Wa ...
.
On 19 November 2012, ''
Génération Goldman
''Génération Goldman'' is a compilation/tribute album series containing interpretations of the songs of popular French singer and songwriter Jean-Jacques Goldman. It is released on My Major Company (France) noting that Michaël Goldman, son of t ...
'', a tribute album to Goldman, was released on the
MyMajorCompany France and
M6 Music
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Music television channels
Television stations in France
French-language television stations
Television channels and ...
labels, with a number of artists interpreting Goldman's songs. A second volume followed in 2013.
Personal life
His half-brother
Pierre Goldman
Pierre Goldman (; Lyon, 22 June 1944 – Paris, 20 September 1979) was a French left-wing intellectual who was convicted of several robberies and mysteriously assassinated. It has been suspected that the Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación (G ...
, a left-wing intellectual and convicted (though later acquitted) robber, was murdered in mysterious circumstances in 1979 in Paris.
His younger brother
Robert Goldman is also a songwriter (often known as J. Kapler). His son Michaël Goldman is one of the co-founders of
My Major Company France, a major
fan-funded music
Fan-funded music is crowdfunding for music. Often, fan-funded music occurs in conjunction with direct-to-fan marketing. Fans of music have the option to donate and collectively raise money with the goal of jump-starting the career of a given musica ...
label.
From 1975 to 1997, Goldmann was married with Catherine Morlet, a psychologist. He remarried in 2001 with Nathalie Thu Hong-Lagier, a mathematician. He is a father of six: Caroline (b. 1975), Michael (b. 1979) and Nina (b. 1985) he had with Morlet, and Maya (b. 2004), Kimi (b. 2005) and Rose (b. 2007) he had with Thu Hong-Lagier.
Philanthropy
Goldman was the leader of the
Les Enfoirés
Les Enfoirés (, 'The Tossers' or 'The Bastards') is the name given to the singers and performers in the yearly charity concert for the Restaurants du Cœur
The Restaurants du Cœur (literally ''Restaurants of the Heart'' but meaning ''Restau ...
charity ensemble from 1986 to 2016.
"Jean-Jacques Goldman"
(in French). ''Enfoires.com''. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
Discography
Solo
* ''Jean-Jacques Goldman
Jean-Jacques Goldman (; born 11 October 1951) is a 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 p ...
'' (a.k.a. ''Démodé'') (1981)
* ''Jean-Jacques Goldman
Jean-Jacques Goldman (; born 11 October 1951) is a 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 p ...
'' (a.k.a. ''Minoritaire'') (1982)
* '' Positif'' (1984)
* '' Non homologué'' (1985)
* '' Entre gris clair et gris foncé'' (1987)
* ''En passant
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'' (1997)
* '' Chansons pour les pieds'' (2001)
Taï Phong
* ''Taï Phong'' (1975)
* ''Windows'' (1976)
* ''Last Flight'' (1979)
Fredericks Goldman Jones
* ''Fredericks Goldman Jones
Fredericks Goldman Jones was the name of a famous French musical trio made up of Jean-Jacques Goldman, Carole Fredericks
Carole Denise Fredericks (June 5, 1952 – June 7, 2001) was an American singer best known for her work in French mu ...
'' (1990)
* ''Rouge
Rouge is the French word for "red" and may refer to:
Compounds
* Rouge (cosmetics), a cosmetic used to color the cheeks and emphasize the cheekbones
* Jeweler's rouge or iron(III) oxide
* Rouging, a form of corrosion applicable to stainless ...
'' (1993)
References
External links
*
Jean-Jacques Goldman clip/vidéo/live
*
Là-bas
Biography of Jean-Jacques Goldman
from Radio France Internationale
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*
JJG famille
*
Parler d'sa vie
*
Autre Part : L'univers des frères Goldman
{{DEFAULTSORT:Goldman, Jean-Jacques
1951 births
Living people
French people of Polish-Jewish descent
Writers from Paris
20th-century French Jews
Jewish songwriters
Jewish singers
French pop singers
French expatriates in the United Kingdom
Grammy Award winners
20th-century French male singers
21st-century French male singers
French male singer-songwriters