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...