Jean-Jacques Goldman
Acting • Born 1951-10-11
Biography
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.
Filmography
60 credits
Les Enfoirés 2008 - Les secrets des Enfoirés
Movie • 2008
Jean-Jacques Goldman : la grande soirée anniversaire / la soirée continue
Movie • 2021
Self
Elle s'appelait Sirima
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage)
Solidarité inondations
Movie • 2003
Self
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
Movie • 2014
Jean-Jacques Goldman : Un tour ensemble
Movie • 2003
Self
Jean-Jacques Goldman - Tournée en passant 98
Movie • 1999
Self
Céline Dion : une voix, un destin
Movie • 2021
Self
Jean-Jacques Goldman - Souvenirs de Tournées
Movie • 2000
Self
Comment tournent les violons : Jean-Jacques Goldman
Movie • 2004
Self - chanteur
Integrale des Clips 1981/2000
Movie • 2000
Self
Jean-Jacques Goldman : Intégrale des clips 1981/1989
Movie • 1989
Self (archive footage)
Jean-Jacques Goldman : Intégrale des clips 1990/2000
Movie • 2000
Self (archive footage)
Les Enfoirés 2015 - Sur la route des Enfoirés
Movie • 2015
Traces
Movie • 1989
Self
Du new Morning au Zenith
Movie • 2000
Self
Johnny Hallyday Allume le feu au Stade de France
Movie • 1999
Self
L'Énigme Jean-Jacques Goldman
Movie • 2021
Self
A Year with Céline
Movie • 1999
Self
I Am: Celine Dion
Movie • 2024
Self (archive footage)
Fredericks Goldman Jones - Du New Morning au Zénith
Movie • 1995
Self
Les Enfoirés 1989 - Tournée d'Enfoirés
Movie • 1989
Goldman, un héros si discret
Movie • 2016
Self
Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur
Movie • 1998
Les Enfoirés 1995 - Les Enfoirés à l'Opéra-Comique
Movie • 1995
Les Enfoirés 1996 - La Soirée des Enfoirés
Movie • 1996
Les Enfoirés 2002 - Tous dans le même bateau
Movie • 2002
Les Enfoirés 1992 - La Soirée des Enfoirés à l'Opéra
Movie • 1992
Les Enfoirés 1994 - Les Enfoirés au Grand Rex
Movie • 1994
Les Enfoirés 1993 - Les Enfoirés chantent Starmania
Movie • 1993
Les Enfoirés 2016 - Au rendez-vous des Enfoirés
Movie • 2016
Les Enfoirés 2014 - Bon anniversaire Les Enfoirés
Movie • 2014
Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés
Movie • 1997
Les Enfoirés 2000 - Enfoirés en 2000
Movie • 2000
Les Enfoirés 1999 - Dernière édition avant l'an 2000
Movie • 1999
Les Enfoirés 2001 - L'odyssée des Enfoirés
Movie • 2001
Céline Dion : Au cœur du Stade
Movie • 1999
Self
Jean-Jacques Goldman, de l'intérieur
Movie • 2017
Self
Les Enfoirés 2010 - Les Enfoirés... la Crise de Nerfs
Movie • 2010
Les Enfoirés 2013 - La Boîte à Musique des Enfoirés
Movie • 2013
Les Enfoirés, 15 ans d'Enfoirés
Movie • 2005
Pour toi Céline: La soirée évènement
Movie • 2024
Self (archival footage)
Robert Charlebois en concert à Montréal avec Jean-Jacques Goldman
Movie • 1986
Self
Fredericks Goldman Jones - Tours et détours
Movie • 1995
Self
Un tour ensemble - bonus Chronique d'une année de tournée
Movie • 2003
Self
Un tour ensemble - bonus Commentaires du spectacle
Movie • 2003
Self
Céline Dion raconte D'eux
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage)
Vos 40 chansons préférées des Enfoirés
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage)
Les Nuls, l'émission
TV • 1990
Self - Musical Guest
Victoires de la musique
TV • 1985
Self
Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982
Self
Le Grand Échiquier
TV • 1972
Self
Midi Première
TV • 1975
Self
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
TV • 2022
Self (archive footage)
Champs-Elysées
TV • 1982
Self (archive footage)
Taratata
TV • 1993
Self
Star Academy
TV • 2001
Self
Vivement dimanche
TV • 1998
Self
Stars 90
TV • 1990
Self
Sacrée Soirée
TV • 1987
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