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Jean-Michel Jarre

Jean-Michel Jarre (b. Lyon, France, August 24, 1948) is world-renowned for his sound-and-light concerts, and brought electronic music to the masses with his albums Oxygène (1976) and Équinoxe (1977). Son of film composer Maurice Jarre, he grew up with his mother, while his father moved to the United States, and began learning to play the piano at the age of eight. He attended the Paris Conservatoire and played in several rock bands before turning to electronic music under the aegis of Pierre Schaeffer at the Groupe de recherches musicales (GRM) in 1968. He experimented with synth...