Jacques Higelin
French pop singer (1940–2018)
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- Jacques Joseph Victor Higelin ( French pronunciation: [ʒak ʒozɛf viktɔʁ iʒlɛ̃] ; 18 October 1940 – 6 April 2018) was a French pop singer who rose to prominence in the early 1970s.
- His father, Paul, a railway worker and musician of Alsatian descent, introduced his two sons to various forms of music.
- Career Higelin's entertainment career began at age 14, when he left school to work as a stunt double.
- By the early 1960s, Higelin was attending the René Simon drama school, where he won the François Périer award.
- By the end of the decade, he had become very active in the artistic underground in Paris and began to channel his music towards radical activism.
Jacques Joseph Victor Higelin (French pronunciation: [ʒak ʒozɛf viktɔʁ iʒlɛ̃]; 18 October 1940 – 6 April 2018) was a French pop singer who rose to prominence in the early 1970s.
Early life
Higelin was born on 18 October 1940. His father, Paul, a railway worker and musician of Alsatian descent, introduced his two sons to various forms of music. Their mother, Renée, was of Belgian descent, and raised both the boys.
Career
Higelin's entertainment career began at age 14, when he left school to work as a stunt double. While playing a number of minor roles in motion pictures, Higelin was taught to play the guitar by Henri Crolla, a French-Italian jazz guitarist and a composer of film scores. By the early 1960s, Higelin was attending the René Simon drama school, where he won the François Périer award.
After his mandatory two-year military service, he resumed his film career around 1963 but began to focus more on music. By the end of the decade, he had become very active in the artistic underground in Paris and began to channel his music towards radical activism.
Higelin began attracting popular attention through his live concerts, typically held in smaller venues, and released his first solo album in 1971. By the middle of the 1970s, Higelin had become one of France's most successful pop musicians, and he remains influential to this day.
In the 1970s Higelin was in a relationship with a French-Vietnamese woman called Kuelan Nguyen. They had a son together.
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