This Wednesday, August 14, W9 is focusing on one of the most popular artists in France. In The Jean-Jacques Goldman enigma, which will be broadcast on the M6 group channel from 9:10 p.m., viewers will be able to rediscover the singer’s career, his joys, his successes, but also his dark sides. Because at 72, Jean-Jacques Goldman is a very discreet man, far from the star system.
When was Jean-Jacques Goldman’s last concert?
Fans of the artist who has sold over 30 million records dream of one day being able to hear him on stage. Alas, it has been a long time since the Parisian put down the microphone. It was in July 2004, 20 years ago, that the singer gave his very last concert. It was in La Rochelle, on the main stage of the Francofolies festival. Jean-Jacques Goldman had initially announced that he wanted to take a break ” a moment “, and as his musician Michael Jones had confided au Figarono one around him thought that this stop would be definitive. A year later, the singer officially announced that he was stopping the stage, in order to be able, in particular, to devote himself to his children.
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Almost 10 years ago, Jean-Jacques Goldman withdrew from Les Enfoirés
For fans of the singer-songwriter, the second blow came in 2016, when he announced that he was leaving Les Enfoirés. 2016. At 65 years old and after 30 years ofBastardsI think it’s time to hand over. I no longer have the creativity, the ideas, the modernity that such a show requires.”the singer had indicated on the website of the collective of artists linked to the Restos du Coeur, of which he was the artistic director of shows for 3 decades. Since 2017, it is collegially, with the collaboration of all the volunteer artists, that the decisions concerning the Enfoirés shows are taken.
Despite his absence from the limelight, Jean-Jacques Goldman was elected last January, for the ninth time in 10 years, as the French people’s favourite personality in a major survey organised by the JDD. A proof of his very special aura.
