Jean-Jacques Goldman, the French superstar who saved Cèline Dion's career in French. What can I say? I came across, can't remember how, to his debut solo album Démodè (1981) with hits like Il suffire d'un signe as well as follow up Minoritaire (1982) with Comme toi, Quand la musique est bonne and Veiller tard but when Positif (1984) came out I was totally sold and continued my adoration to this guy well to the 1990's. Envole-moi (and the international release Love me away), Nous ne nous parlerons pas, Dors bébé dors, Encore un matin, Ton autre chemin and most of all Long is the road (Americain) are all songs from this album I knew by heart and still do... well, sort of (age doesn't come alone...). The album sold over one million copies in France alone and made him a megastar for years to come, especially when his following albums were filled with hits as well. He opened the French music to me and I was hunting several artists who remain favourites to this day. My interrails took me to France just so I could buy new albums and ended up spending there quite a lot time, even for romantic reasons... But that's another story! But he even made to study French.
His latest album is Chansons pur les pieds (2001) but he has been relatively busy writing for other singers; Cèline Dion, Garou. Patricia Kaas, Johnny Halliday and Patrick Fiori just to name a few. Other masterpieces from him include Là-bas in duet with Sirima (who was sadly killed by her jealous boyfriend a couple of years after the release), Nuit, sung together with Caroline Fredericks and Michael Jones. Pas toi, Puisque tu pars, Doux and the list goes on....
Collaborating with so many Eurovision artists it's a shame he never wrote the French entry....
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