Acting
Jean-Jacques Goldman
FR, EN cinema · 55 credits
Born
11 October 1951 (age 75)
Birthplace
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 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.
Known for
Filmography
Il était une Voix... Céline Dion
as Self (archive footage)
Jean-Jacques Goldman : 50 ans dans le cœur des Français
as Self (archive footage)
Céline Dion raconte D'eux
as Self (archive footage)
Vos 40 chansons préférées des Enfoirés
as Self (archive footage)
Le Grand Concert de la Francophonie célèbre Jean-Jaques Goldman
Author, Original Music Composer, Compositor
I Am: Celine Dion
as Self (archive footage)
Pour toi Céline: La soirée évènement
as Self (archival footage)
Elle s'appelait Sirima
as Self (archive footage)
Comment tournent les violons : Jean-Jacques Goldman
as Self - chanteur
Jean-Jacques Goldman : Intégrale des clips 1990/2000
2000
Jean-Jacques Goldman : Intégrale des clips 1990/2000
as Self (archive footage), Director, Scenario Writer
Asterix and Obelix Take On Caesar
Original Music Composer
Pacific Palisades
Original Music Composer
Jean-Jacques Goldman : Intégrale des clips 1981/1989
as Self (archive footage), Director, Scenario Writer
Traces
1989
Traces
as Self, Music
Brothers in Arms
Original Music Composer
