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Jean-Michel André Jarre (pronounced [ʒɑ̃ miʃɛl ɑ̃dʁe ʒaʁ], born 24 August 1948, is a French composer, performer, and record producer. He is a pioneer in the electronic, ambient and new-age genres, and known for organising outdoor spectacles featuring his music, vast laser displays and fireworks.
Jarre was raised in Lyon by his mother and grandparents, and trained on the piano. From an early age, he was introduced to a variety of art forms, including street performers, jazz musicians and the artist Pierre Soulages. He played guitar in a band, but his musical style was perhaps most heavily influenced by Pierre Schaeffer, a pioneer of musique concrète at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales.
His first mainstream success was the 1976 album Oxygène. Recorded in a makeshift studio at his home, the album sold an estimated 12 million copies. Oxygène was followed in 1978 by Équinoxe, and in 1979, Jarre performed to a record-breaking audience of more than a million people at the Place de la Concorde, a record he has since broken three times. More albums were to follow, but his 1979 concert served as a blueprint for his future performances around the world. Several of his albums have been released to coincide with large-scale outdoor events, and he is now perhaps as well known as a performer as he is as a musician.
As of 2004, Jarre had sold an estimated 80 million albums. He was the first Western musician officially invited to perform in the People's Republic of China, and holds the world record for the largest-ever audience at an outdoor event.
Discography Main article: Jean-Michel Jarre discography
As of 2004, Jarre had sold an estimated 80 million albums.[137] Studio albums
1972 – Deserted Palace 1973 – Les Granges Brûlées 1976 – Oxygène 1978 – Équinoxe 1981 – Les Chants Magnétiques 1983 – Musique pour Supermarché 1984 – Zoolook 1986 – Rendez-Vous 1988 – Revolutions 1990 – En attendant Cousteau 1993 – Chronologie 1997 – Oxygène 7–13 2000 – Métamorphoses 2001 – Interior Music 2002 – Sessions 2000 2003 – Geometry of Love 2007 – Téo & Téa 2007 – Oxygène: New Master Recording 2015 – Electronica 1: The Time Machine 2016 – Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise 2016 – Oxygène 3 2017 – Radiophonie vol. 9
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