Jean-Jacques Goldman

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Jean-Jacques Goldman (French pronunciation: ​[ʒɑ̃.ʒak ɡɔldˈman]; born 11 October 1951) is a Grammy Award-winning French singer-songwriter. He is hugely popular in the French-speaking world, and since 2003 has been the second-highest-grossing French living pop-rock singer, after Johnny Hallyday. In the 1990s, he was part of the trio Fredericks Goldman Jones with a string of hits.

Born in Paris to an immigrant Polish Jewish father, Alter Mojze Goldman and a German Jewish mother, Ruth Ambrunn, 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, 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 singing four years and three albums in English with Taï Phong, Goldman was determined to do it alone and write and sing in French.

In 1981, Marc Lumbroso heard his recording "Il suffira d'un signe" on the album Démodé and signed him to a five-album contract with Epic Records. In 1982, his first hit album Minoritaire, which included the hit song "Quand la musique est bonne", was released; subsequent albums have all been successful.

In 1987, he recorded the hit single "Là-bas" with Sirima, which remained a popular song throughout the years. From 1990 to 1995, he recorded two studio albums, one live album and released several singles (such as "Nuit", "À nos actes manqués", "Né en 17 à Leidenstadt" and "Tu manques") with Carole Fredericks and Michael Jones, which were successful. Several of these songs were recorded with English versions, but did not find much success in England or the United States. In 2007, he recorded the hit "4 Mots sur un piano" with Patrick Fiori and Christine Ricol.

Jones, is a Welsh singer who had settled in his mother's native France. He and Goldman scored a hit in the early 1980s with "Je te donne" ("I Give You"), a bilingual song with Jones singing the English lyrics and Goldman the French. Fredericks was an American singer, the sister of Taj Mahal who settled in France in the 1970s.

Jean-Jacques Goldman wrote the theme for "Restos du Coeur" the eponymous song performed by les Enfoirés as the theme of the charity created by Coluche, Les restos du coeur. Throughout his career, he has frequently written for other singers, notably Céline Dion. He wrote her albums D'eux (released in the US as The French Album), which is the best selling French album in history with 10,000,000 copies sold worldwide and S'il suffisait d'aimer.

He also worked with her on the album 1 fille & 4 types along with Gildas Arzel, Jacques Veneruso and Erick Benzi. The songs "If That's What It Takes", "I Don't Know" and "Fly" from her album Falling into You, and "Let's Talk About Love" from the album of the same name are all English adaptations of songs Goldman wrote for Céline.

He has also collaborated with Johnny Hallyday, Patricia Kaas, Garou, Marc Lavoine, Gérald De Palmas, Patrick Fiori, Khaled ("Aïcha"), Lorie and Florent Pagny as well as famous jazzman Chet Baker, Supertramp's saxophonist John Helliwell, Englishman Joe Cocker, American king of soul Ray Charles and American songwriter Diane Warren.

On 19 November 2012, Génération Goldman, a tribute album to Goldman was released on My Major Company France and M 6 Music label with a number of artists interpreting Goldman songs.

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Since you leave is a song of Jean-Jacques Goldman released in 45 rpm in July 1988 . It ranked No. 3 in France.

According to Goldman, the song treats "the departure, the separation, and all that it implies" . He said: "The idea came to me at the end of my concerts, when people were singing It's just a goodbye ... So I thought about writing a song about it But to show that the departure is not necessarily sad, but that there were also positive sides about departure and separation " .

The song, which shows a "certain maturity" in writing, has an "emotional expressiveness that depicts the dilemma of a love that does not want to be possessive . "

The song has been included in many of Goldman's albums, including live albums Traces , From New Morning to Zenith and Un tour ensemble , and in compilations L'Intégrale 81/91 and Singulier . A live version of Goldman with Les Fous Chantants is included in the DVD Solidarité Floods .

It also serves as a soundtrack for a moving video-tribute published at the end of the double live album of the tour "En passant". To conclude the video, a compilation of the behind-the-scenes sequences, the following text is superimposed: "Dédé Mallet was responsible for the safety of the concerts since ... He died on November 10, 1998. This tour is dedicated to him" .

The song in studio version, begins with a sample of the song Is there anybody out there? By Pink Floyd on The Wall (0.32s to 0.39s). There are no official articles relating to the use of se sample.