Jacques Higelin
Date of birth: 1940-10-18
Place of birth: Brou-sur-Chantereine, Seine-et-Marne, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Jacques Igelin
Biography
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.
Movie Credits
We Won't Go to the Woods Anymore
1969-05-15
In the spring of 1944, in the Woëvre forest of Lorraine, a group of young maquisards takes in four G
Ce que le temps a donné à l'homme
2014-12-01
Jacques Higelin and Sandrine Bonnaire met on a train. A beautiful, discreet friendship was born. The
Against Oblivion
1991-12-11
A compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to
Savannah
1988-08-17
Colin and Mailland are small-time crooks on the run who are surprised to find the seven-year-old run
The Suburbs Are Everywhere
1973-02-22
He is a sales rep. She is a secretary. They live in the suburbs but she works in Paris. They don't s
Jappeloup
2013-03-13
A true sports story that utterly defies the odds, Duguay’s film captures the wild ups and downs of t
Un homme à la mer
1993-08-25
Pierre has disappeared. His ex-wife Fanny, their daughter and Maria, "the other", go looking for him
Erotissimo
1969-06-07
Annie is a middle-age wife, still sexy and pampered by her husband, Phillippe, who is the owner and
Green Harvest
1959-12-02
In 1943, a group of high school students decide to take action against the Nazi occupying forces. Sh
Bebert and the Train
1963-12-03
The Martin family is shopping in a department store. Tiennot is responsible for looking after his li
The Surrounded
1968-06-12
Jean-Claude is a student, with Didier, at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Generales where Violaine, Didi
Atomic Agent
1959-11-04
Murderous foreign agents are after a scientist who has invented an atomic engine that could change t
Guitare au poing
1973-06-22
In reaction against a closed and oppressive world, a Pop festival is organized where young people in
La bande du Rex
1980-04-29
What do Patricia, Badou, François, Dingo and P'tit Jeannot have in common? They live in the Paris su
Léa in Winter
1971-03-20
It starts with the discovery of a woman's corpse, then gradually reveals the past of this woman as w
Saint-Tropez Blues
1961-07-21
With her parents away, Anne-Marie drops her studies to spend eight days in Saint-Tropez with her fri
Le bonheur est pour demain
1961-06-03
Alain is a young man who has just left his parents and finds himself lost in Saint-Nazaire, a French
Salut, voleurs!
1973-06-21
In this French crime caper film, a young misfit who has grown tired of his job as a bank teller deli
The Year 01
1973-02-22
The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high produ
L'art de la turlute
1969-01-01
Some moments in the life of a young couple.
Mechanical Concerto for Madness or Mad Mechanomorphosis
1963-01-01
Crime on a Summer Morning
1965-02-17
An ill-assorted group of international criminals executes a tightly-planned ransom sting in Spain. T
Seven Days Somewhere Else
1969-08-29
A young composer is suffocating in his social and family life. He dreams of leaving and starting his
Raining Cats and Frogs
2003-12-03
It's a catastrophe! A flood has hit our planet and an unusual group of people are all that remains.
Brigitte Fontaine : Reflets et crudité
2013-10-02