Jacques Higelin

Actor, Compositor

18 de octubre de 1940 — 6 de abril de 2018 (77 años)
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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    Tú de día, yo de noche1973
  • Seven Days Somewhere Else
    Seven Days Somewhere Else1969
  • Un Hermanito Con Chispa
    Un Hermanito Con Chispa1963
  • Saint-Tropez Blues
    Saint-Tropez Blues1961
  • Erotissimo
    Erotissimo1969
  • Savannah
    Savannah1988
  • La cosecha verde
    La cosecha verde1959
  • No iremos más al bosque
    No iremos más al bosque1969

Filmography

2013
Jappeloup · as Henry Dalio, First Owner Of Jappeloup
2004
Colette, une femme libre · as Georges Wague
2003
Raining Cats and Frogs · as Le Lion (voice)
1988
Savannah · as Colin
1980
La bande du Rex · as Daniel Pautard Aka 'frankie Mégalo'
1977
Another Man, Another Chance · as Streetsinger
1973
Hail Thieves · as Charlie
1973
The Year 01 · as The Banjo Singer
1973
The Suburbs Are Everywhere · as Bernard Réval
1969
Erotissimo · as Bob
1969
1968
1965
Les Saintes Chéries · as 'tonton Georges'
1965
1964
1963
Bebert and the Train · as Tiennot Martin
1961
Saint-Tropez Blues · as Jean-Paul Capelier
1960
The Youth Theater · as Laigle
1959
Green Harvest · as Mercadier
1959
Atomic Agent · as Loulou

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