Biography:

Jean Musy , bornDecember 18, 1947in Levallois-Perret and died on April 27, 2024, is a musician , composer and arranger of songs and film scores. He has recorded more than a thousand 45s and 150 albums, composed nearly 200 film scores and TV series and numerous songs. He composed an opera, illustrated poems by Stefan Zweig and Rainer Maria Rilke , wrote a musical fresco inspired by the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls .

Jean Musy comes from a modest family, his father was a printer. With his family, he lived in an HLM building in Levallois-Perret.

As a teenager, he discovered the Hammond organ and jazz. From the age of 14, he joined groups of musicians with whom he gave his first concerts in Paris in jazz clubs. At 16, he met Mickey Baker , American guitarist, studio musician and arranger for Johnny Hallyday , who led him to become Nino Ferrer ‘s accompanist . For a year he toured with him and recorded the album I would like to be black in a studio in Dijon.

Through Mickey’s connections, Jean Musy is introduced to Joe Dassin . In 1968, Johnny Arthey , Joe Dassin’s English arranger, fell ill. Joe Dassin then asked Jean Musy to write the arrangement of a song that he had to record 48 hours later: Les Champs Élysées .

Jean Musy will sign the arrangements, will conduct the orchestra and provide piano accompaniment for: Francis Lalanne (Songs Rentre chez toi, La maison du Bonheur on the album Rentre chez toi (1979)) 1 the group Once upon a time ( I dreamed of her again ), by Barbara ( Incestuous Loves ), Michel Jonasz ( I wanted to tell you that I’m waiting for you ), Yves Duteil ( Take a child , The language of our home , Tarantelle and several other titles ), Nicole Martin ( It’s part of things , Wounded , This child of yours , I’m afraid and several other titles whose texts are signed by the lyricist Laurence Matalon ), Nicole Rieu ( If the birds could speak and Man ), Nicole Croisille ( A woman with you , Tell me about him (He only thinks of you) , I need you, I need him on a text by Laurence Matalon and A story of every day ) , Dick Annegarn ( Brussels ), Nicolas Peyrac ( So far away from LA and several other titles), Jean-Michel Caradec ( The Little Dream Girl and several other titles), Charles Aznavour ( A Life of Love ), Mouloudji ( Que time flies ), Véronique Sanson ( Vancouver ), Catherine Lara ( Morituri ), Francis Lai ( Bilitis ), Lucid Beausonge ( Letter to a dreamer ), Jean Humenry ( Fatima & Je cours dans ma tête ), Ginette Reno ( Singing for you tonight ), as well as for Jeanne Moreau , Gipsy Kings , Georges Moustaki , Anna Prucnal , Demis Roussos , Françoise Hardy , Serge Reggiani , Gilbert Bécaud ,Mireille Mathieu , Fabienne Thibeault , Noëlle Cordier , Nino Ferrer , Georges Chelon , Gérard Berliner , Petula Clark , Frida Boccara , Patric , Dalida , Gilbert Laffaille , Manon Landowski, Salvatore Adamo , Isabelle Aubret , Marie Laforêt , Daniel Guichard , Martyne Degand, Ghislaine Paradis , Gérard Lenorman , Jean Faubert , Jeane Manson , Bernard Dimey , Pierre Haralambon , Dave , Marie-Paule Belle , Linda de Suza , Pierre Tisserand …

In 1976 , he met Francis Lai . In 1977 , Jean Musy wrote the orchestrations of Francis Lai’s music for the film Bilitis , then for Les ringards in 1978 and Les uns et les autres in 1980. Jean Musy also wrote the arrangements for Francis Lai’s solo album Paris- New York in 1980 . For television, Jean Musy reunites with Franck Apprédéris , with whom he will sign the music for the series Madame le principal , Malone , Passeur d’enfants , Commissaire Moulin , Le jap … as well as Denis Malleval , Daniel Moosmann , Denys de La Patellière , Roger Pigaut , Bruno Gantillon , Serge Leroy for the Pause Café series .

Jean Musy is the husband of the singer Claire d’Asta .

In 2016, he received the SACEM Grand Prix for music for image for all of his work.

In 2017, he received the UCMF “Audiovisuel” Prize for My Beloved Brother

Jean Musy died on April 27, 2024 2 .

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