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Jacques Higelin

Jacques Higelin

Actor · 1940 – 2018 · Brou-sur-Chantereine, Seine-et-Marne, France

Jacques Joseph Victor Higelin (18 October 1940 – 6 April 2018) was a French pop singer who rose to prominence in the early 1970s. 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, while his mother, Renée, of Belgian descent, raised them both. 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 Perier award. For two years beginning in 1961, Higelin served in the French military in various countries. Upon returning to France, he resumed his film career but increasingly began to focus 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 70's Higelin was in a relationship with a French-Vietnamese woman called Kuelan Nguyen. She accompanied him during the recording of an album at Château d'Hérouville Studio, where Iggy Pop was also recording his debut solo album "The Idiot". Iggy Pop became infatuated with Nguyen, who rejected him, but the incident inspired the song China Girl, which later became a hit when re-recorded by David Bowie. Higelin had three children, all of whom became artists: Arthur H, singer, born to Nicole Courtois in 1966; Kên Higelin, actor, born to Kuelan Nguyen in 1972; Izïa, singer, born to dancer Aziza Zakine in 1990. Higelin married Zakine in 2011. Higelin died on 6 April 2018 in Paris. Source: Article "Jacques Higelin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movies21

  • Movie7.1

    Jappeloup

    2013 · 398 votes

  • Movie6.9

    La Prophétie des grenouilles

    Raining Cats and Frogs

    2003 · 144 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Par un beau matin d'été

    Crime on a Summer Morning

    1965 · 16 votes

  • Movie6.5

    L'An 01

    The Year 01

    1973 · 46 votes

  • Movie5.7

    Erotissimo

    1969 · 19 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Contre l’oubli

    Lest We Forget

    1991 · 3 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Bébert et l'Omnibus

    Bebert and the Train

    1963 · 17 votes

  • Movie8.0

    Nous n'irons plus au bois

    We Won't Go to the Woods Anymore

    1969 · 1 votes

  • Movie7.5

    Savannah

    1988 · 2 votes

  • Movie5.0

    Elle court, elle court la banlieue

    The Suburbs Are Everywhere

    1973 · 19 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Un homme à la mer

    1993 · 1 votes

  • Movie10.0

    La bande du Rex

    1980 · 1 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Sept jours ailleurs

    Seven Days Somewhere Else

    1969 · 4 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Saint-Tropez Blues

    1961 · 10 votes

  • Movie4.5

    Nathalie, agent secret

    Atomic Agent

    1959 · 2 votes

  • Movie6.0

    La Verte Moisson

    Green Harvest

    1959 · 11 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Salut, voleurs!

    1973 · 1 votes

  • Movie9.0

    Léa, l'hiver

    Léa in Winter

    1971 · 1 votes

  • Movie9.0
  • Movie10.0

    Guitare au poing

    1973 · 1 votes

  • Movie9.0

    Les encerclés

    The Surrounded

    1968 · 1 votes

Series14

  • TV5.7

    Sacrée soirée

    1987 · 5 votes

  • TV6.8

    Champs-Elysées

    1982 · 9 votes

  • TV3.6

    Vivement dimanche

    1998 · 9 votes

  • TV8.5

    Apostrophes

    1975 · 4 votes

  • TV7.5

    Numéro un

    1975 · 2 votes

  • TV6.0
  • TV
  • TV8.0

    Le Grand Échiquier

    1972 · 3 votes

  • TV8.0

    Discorama

    1959 · 1 votes

  • TV6.1

    Nulle part ailleurs

    1987 · 8 votes

  • TV3.3
  • TV8.6

    Les Nuls, l'émission

    1990 · 6 votes

  • TV10.0

    Rockpalast

    1974 · 1 votes

  • TV9.0