Jean-Michel Jarre

ABOUT JEAN-MICHEL JARR

The French composer, performer, producer, visionary, innovator, cultural ambassador Jean-Michel Jarre is recognised worldwide as one of the pioneers of electronic music. His innovative approach to the visual and highly technological staging of electronic music has paved the way for this culture to flourish worldwide.

His current catalogue, which includes 21 studio albums, from Oxygene to the recent Amazônia has generated sales of more than 85 million albums worldwide and earned him countless awards and nominations. Jarre has also set records in the Guinness Book of Records for audience size at concerts in several emblematic sites around the world: 1m Place de la Concorde (1979), 1.3m Houston, Texas (1986), 2.5m Paris-La Défense (1990), 3.5m Moscow (1997). Throughout his career Jarre played some of the most exciting landmarks around the globe: He was the first western musician ever to be invited to perform in post-Mao China, and has also played the likes of the Great Pyramids in Egypt, The Sahara Desert, The Eiffel Tower and the Dead Sea. In 2021, he rang in the new year with a groundbreaking livestream broadcast worldwide from a virtual Notre Dame in Paris – the stream attracted over 75 million viewers worldwide. 

 

Jarre has long been UNESCO’s ambassador for education, science and culture, an unconditional defender of the environment and winner of the Stephen Hawking Medal for scientific communication. 

JEAN-MICHEL JARRE is synonymous with the legendary as he continues to break new ground with each piece of music and live performance.  With technology on the forefront of everything we do, Jarre quotes today as “the most exciting time to make music”. 

 

 

 

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