Biography

Celebrated as the European electronic music community's premier ambassador, composer Jean-Michel Jarre elevated the synthesizer to new peaks of popularity during the 1970s, in the process emerging as an international superstar renowned for his dazzling concert spectacles. The son of the famed film composer Maurice Jarre, he was born August 24, 1948 in Lyon, France, and began studying piano at the age of five. Abandoning classical music as a youth, Jarre became enamored of jazz before forming a rock band called Mystere IV. His early experiments in electro-acoustic music yielded the 1971 single [roviLink="MC"]"La Cage," but went largely unappreciated. ~ Jason Ankeny

Top Tracks

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• C'est La Vie

• December 17

• Ethnicolor

• First Rendez-vous

• Give Me A Sign

• January 24

• Je Me Souviens

• La Chanson Des Granges Brûlées

• Last Rendez-vous (ron's Piece)

• Les Chants Magnetiques, Pt. 1

• Magnetic Fields Iv

• Millions Of Stars

• Oxygene 10

• Oxygene 12

• Oxygene 2

• Oxygene 4

• Oxygene 7

• Oxygene 8

• Oxygene, Pt. 1

• Oxygene, Pt. 2

• Oxygene, Pt. 4

• Oxygene, Pt. 5

• Oxygene, Pt. 6

• Rendez-vous 98

• Rose

• September 14

• Souvenir Of China

• The Overture

• Zig-zag

• Zoolookologie

Discography

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• Téo and Téa

  EastWest

  2007

• Sessions 2000

  Dreyfus Records

  2003

• Metamorphoses

  Dreyfus/Sony

  2000

• Chronologie

  Dreyfus Records

  1993

• En Attendant Cousteau

  Dreyfus Records

  1990

• Jarre Live

  Dreyfus Records

  1989

• Revolutions

  Dreyfus Records

  1988

• Jean Michel Jarre in Concert: Houston-Lyon

  Dreyfus/Polydor

  1987

• Cities in Concert: Houston/Lyon

  Dreyfus Records

  1987

• Rendez-Vous

  Dreyfus Records

  1986

• Zoolook

  Dreyfus Records

  1984

• The Concerts in China

  Polydor

  1982