Jean Michel Jarre

Jean Michel Jarre is a French composer, performer, and music producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient, and newage genres, and known as an organiser of outdoor spectacles of his music featuring lights, laser displays, and fireworks.

Jean Michel Jarre was born in Lyon onAugust 1948, to France Pejot, a French Resistance member and concentration camp survivor, and Maurice Jarre, a composer. When Jarre was five, his parents split up and his father moved to America, leaving him with his mother. He did not see his father again until reaching the age of 18. For the first eight years of his life, Jarre spent six months each year at his maternal grandparents flat on the Cours de Verdun, in the Perrache district of Lyon. Jarres grandfather was an oboe player, engineer and inventor, designing an early audio mixer used at Radio Lyon. He also gave Jean Michel his first record player. From his vantage point high above the pavement, the young French boy was able to watch street performers at work, an experience he later cited as proving influential on his art.

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