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person_profile-Jacques Higelin

Jacques Higelin Died at age: 77

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Jacques Higelin

Date of Birth:

Oct 18, 1940

Country of birth:

France

Died:

Apr 06, 2018

Biography of

Jacques Higelin

    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.

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Jacques Higelin

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Filmography of

Jacques Higelin

Found 18 Movies in total

Jappeloup

Dalio ( Actor )

... 2013

Raining Cats and Frogs

Le lion (voice) ( Actor )

... 2003

Un homme à la mer

Pierre ( Actor )

... 1993

Against Oblivion

Self ( Actor )

... 1991

Savannah

Colin ( Actor )

... 1988

La bande du Rex

Daniel Pautard ( Actor )

... 1980

... 1973

Salut, voleurs!

Charlie ( Actor )

... 1973

The Suburbs Are Everywhere

Bernard Réval ( Actor )

... 1973

Seven Days Somewhere Else

Jacques ( Actor )

... 1969

Erotissimo

Bob ( Actor )

... 1969

... 1969

... 1968

Crime on a Summer Morning

Le motard ( Actor )

... 1965

Saint-Tropez Blues

Jean-Paul Capelier ( Actor )

... 1961

... 1961

Green Harvest

Mercadier ( Actor )

... 1959

... 1959