Jean Michel Jarre

Jean Michel Jarre (born 24 August 1948) is a French composer, performer and music producer. He is regarded as a pioneer in the electronic, synthpop, ambient and New Age genres, as well as an organizer of outdoor spectacles of his music which feature lights, 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 those of street performers, jazz musicians, and the artist Pierre Soulages. He played guitar in a band, but his musical style was perhaps most heavily influenced under the direction of Pierre Schaeffer, a pioneer of musique concrete at the Groupe de Recherches Musicales. His first mainstream success was the 1976 album Oxygene. Recorded in a