(Sacem: 15 th September2008)..:NAMESPACE PREFIX = O />....JEAD'S BIOGRAPHY....
I was born on 20th August during quite a tumultuous year in France, where a revolutionary wind had just blown, in a city named Grenoble, Capital of the Alps, shortly before the beginning of the Disco movement in the mid-1970s.....
I currently live between Paris, Grenoble and the Côte d'Azur.....
My dog (a 2 year old Argentinian Mastiff) is called: Batross; my cat (an alley cat/Angorra mix): Voltaire.....
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My life philosophy can be summarized in 3 words: 'LOVE and BE LOVED'!....
The 3 things that drive me in life are: Love, Passion and Faith!....
I believe that man cannot taste true happiness if he is deprived of one of these essential sources to his personal development and his awareness of the outside world...!!! ....
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My hobbies : I am fascinated by Sports cars, particularly Porsches and Ferraris. I also love horses, especially Paint Horses – they are magnificent horses, and have quite a calm nature. I enjoy getting away from it all and going on expeditions with them from time to time.....
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The indispensable qualities that I endeavour to cultivate in myself, and that I look for in others are: Faithfulness, Loyalty, Truth, Frankness, Simplicity, Tolerance, Open-Mindedness, Courage, Tenacity, Humility and Modesty !!! A vast list, isn't it ???....
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I believe in the Divine and in the Hope placed before each one of us, even more so in Friendship, such a rare commodity of which the consequence is, from my own experience, more often betrayal than loyalty. And finally, I believe in the Most Noble Impulsive Force: 'Love' still now and forever, even if both friendship and love have sometimes disappointed and hurt me...!!!....
But that is doubtless the price to pay when one takes the risk of Loving wholeheartedly and giving oneself freely to another ...One is of course more vulnerable when one is outgoing, the heart open and off-guard ! But could love be conceived in a different way – in a calculative, suspicious spirit ???....
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True Love is the Only Thing that is really worth it ..., Love merits all the fighting, all the effort, all the attention. Gentle, vulnerable and powerful at the same time, this heady plant with its thousand scents demands meticulous care, to be left togrow at its own rhythm, but assuredly, so that it is able to durably attain its paroxysm, the heavens !!!....
And, however, you too must have noticed that it (love) is so lacking under all the skies on all corners of our old globe .......
Love does not exist, only proof of Love exists !!! (Jean Cocteau). This needs remembering, especially because when we take the path (of life) as two, it's so good, it's so much better !!!....
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I have noticed, as many have, that kindness and generosity do not always get paid back in return, but should we free ourselves from them on the grounds that we don't receive what we rightfully expected ???....
Should we let ourselves be moulded by the context, in a sort of obliging conformism?....
If we have to stay in the Minority, we must be proud of our glass, regardless the container, or content of other glasses (or other people); just because they shout more loudly, do we care???....
'To each his path, to each his earth, to his his scent, to each his wage'.
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Life cannot be beautiful and carefree without forgiveness, in the same way that success cannot be glimpsed in the absence of reason.......
Each one is the Craftsman of his own life, it is his onus, to a certain extent, to give his life impulse and meaning according to his feelings and the destination that he has chosen for himself !!!....
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'Music is to the Soul, what the Heart is to the Body'. We're coming to it :....
Music and its corollary, Song, have always held a place near to my heart, and have acted as a real support, a compantion, an outlet, my long-term hobby !....
I am in Music, in the same way that in my Music I Am !!!....
I am only able to Write and to Compose in times of deep reflection and feeling. My sensitivity allows me to be touched and affected, sometimes too much in the eyes of those around me, in the widest sense...(music) is what nourishes and inspires me. I am sometimes in love, sometimes unhappy, and it is perhaps better like that so that I can keep my feet on the ground, in tandem with Life !!!....
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Since childhood, (music) has been the instrument through which I have expressed my feelings, my anger, my incomprehension due to a whole host of things, Indifference, Injustice, to the show that the world puts on for us.....
This world, which has appeared to me as being both blind and deaf, when others call it 'civilised and progressive' seems to actually be moving further from the latter in a small part each day – this in spite of a string of reports – some more alarming than others !!!....
Very early on in adolescence, forced to take responsibility for myself, and then to analyse what was going on around me, I became aware of the sometimes serious realities of our times!!!....
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It was doubtless a peculiar period, a bit like avancing along with neither an Itinerary nor a Compass, even perhaps being unaware of our final Destination .......
Rather a lost generation, very easily disenchanted and disillusioned !!!....
And, however, life in all its beauty cannot consist of that kind of life...!!!....
It (life) contains so many nuggets, latent revelations, hidden treasure waiting to be discovered, taking care, nevertheless, not to be fooled, and not to be mislead along the meadering alleys of the obscure system...or amongst the sections of I don't know which circle of apprentices.......
Perspicacity is undeniably required to be able to discern and reach the essence of existential realities, yes it is the Key to answers !!!....
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I already sung, at any occasion, when I was 5 or 6 years old, in particular at my maternal grandmother's house. I lost her a short time ago (she was the only person, I believe, that I have ever really loved and I was aware of this when I was only a child...)....
Yes, song is an integral part of my life. Music is my life, it softens it, it delights it. My life wouldn't be my life without it !....
Writing and Composing on the guitar (my Takamine and my Sam Anderson): Finishing a song is a moment of real intensity and emotion, and contemplation mixed with joy.....
Completing the creation of a song is always a great moment, because through song-writing, I express my feelings, what I really am, even if, upon deeper reflection, I become critical and dissatisfied, and here I will cite a quality that is a borderline fault: resilient perfectionism !!!....
I have been writing songs for about fifteen years.....
I began strumming on the guitar, and I still only know how to strum, and do not consider myself a Musician at all...whether you like it or not.....
I only modestly 'do' songs, as I see it !....
At the same time, I have been able to complete studies in Business and Juridical. I was notably a recipient of the Class of 2000, having obtained my DESS (postgraduate degree) in Management and Property Engineering (Law, Taxation, Economical Sciences) which enabled me to enjoy a freelance career in my office of Studies and Advice, that I had just created and that I have developed in France, whilst, in parallel to that, doing Song-writing, to which have only (because of time constraints) been able to dedicate a limited amount of time !!!....
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In addition to a television appearance on ..:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1 />....France.... 2, invited by Pascal Sevran, about ten years ago, I was a guest on several local radio stations, did some shows and then Stop !!!....
To come back:....
This Autumn 2008, I have just produced my first real Single, 'Beautiful, how I Love you' with the assistance of my friend and arranger : Patrice Liotard, himself also from Grenoble by birth, a Great and Sincere guy, now settled in the Hérault, far from trial and torment, from where he manages his recording studio in one of the nicest Mediterranean settings (Protools HD).....
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What I am fond of in a 'woman' (the Source of my Inspiration) Ah Ah Ah !
In addition to her physical beauty, her natural Charm, her Intelligence, her sense of Humour, her Open-Mindedness, for as F. Nietzche wrote : 'Foolishness is the least feminine trait...' her ability to Listen, her Tolerance, her Capacity to question, her Initiatives, her Art of Simpering, in the best sense of the term, her Intuition, Altruism and Compassion, her Empathy, her Patience, her Gentleness, her Grace, her Feminity, her Temperament and of course, the fact that she is in love (her permanent desire to seduce, since nothing is ever definitively acquired) !!!....
Each partner should take it in turns to seduce the other, and then to astonish, surprise and delight each other !!!....
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Woman, the most beautiful work of Art, in my eyes, is the perfect complement to man !!!....
She is his equal, his partner. She is completely equal to him, and in no way inferior, although different in many ways and it is so much better like this.......
I believe that it is a balanced, considerate and attentive Man that makes a Woman what she is, and, in the same way, and especially, that it is a talented and intelligent Woman that makes a Man!....
Do we not say that behind every great man, there is a talented woman ???....
In the shadow of a blossoming Woman, is there not an attentive and thoughtful Man ???....
Woman is undeniably the most beautiful thing that has ever happened to Man !!!....
To walk as two, so as to become one, is the greatest happiness to which each one aspires.....
Since happiness is also knowing what one wants and wanting it passionately.....
If these two understand and want it resolutely, it is there ready and within the grasp of each one !!!....
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Some philosophical quotations that I like:....
Friedrich NIETZHE :....
-'Everything that knocks you down, strengthens you !!!'....
-'Man wants two things: danger and play, that is why he wants the woman – the most dangerous toy !'....
-'To evaluate is to Create : listen then, you who are creators, it is by evaluation through anaylsing that treasures and jewels are discovered from everything that is evaluated.'....
-'The belief that nothing changes comes either from short-sightedness, or from a lack of faith. The first can be corrected, the second fought for!'....
-'What results from pessimism is the doctrine of the absurdity of existence.'....
-'Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay close to the herd, and lose yourself amongst it !'....
-'Our faults are the eyes through which we see the ideal !'....
-'Our character is determined by the absence of certain experiences (ignorance) more so than those experiences that we have had !'....
-'One starts to guess how much someone is worth when their talent weakens, when he ceases to show what he can do. Talent can be an ornament, and an ornament, a hiding-place.'....
-'A work of Art only becomes readable after successive deep reflections.'....
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Jesus-CHRIST:....
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-'Do unto others what you would have them do unto you !'....
-'There is more joy in giving than in receiving !'....
-'Knock, and the door shall be opened unto you !'....
-'By the freedom of knowledge, you shall know, and you shall grow !'....
-'Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free'.....
CONFUCIUS:....
-'Demand much of yourself and expect little from others, that way you will spare yourself many problems !!!'....
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Alfred de MUSSET :....
-'Everything goes up in smoke – hope and reputation !!!'....
-'To love, is to give one's Body and Soul – it is also to lose Control !!!'....
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Winston CHURCHILL:....
-'The Pessimist always sees a difficulty in every solution, whereas the Optimist always sees a solution in every difficulty !!!'....
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Anonymous Author:....
-'It is not because things are difficult that we adopt a 'wait and see' policy, don't act and don't dare, but it is because we don't dare, that things are difficult !!!'....
-'In order to banish one's black ideas, one should make the most of one's grey matter so as to see life in blue.'....
-'When we have what we love, we have to then love what we have !!!'....
-'To love another is to love his or her marvellous qualities, but also his or her die-hard faults!!!'....
-'Work is a form of emancipation; not doing anything makes the individual insane !!!'....
-'We are not right because we have the support of several people, but because we prove it, with facts !!!'....
-'Every man who undertakes, who manages, has against him those who would like to do the same thing, those who do precisely the opposite..., and especially the great army of much more severe people who do nothing at all and see no problem with that !!!'....
-'Communication':....
'Between what I think, what I want to say, what I think I have said, what I say and what you wanted to hear, what you hear, what you think you have understood, what you want to understand and what you understand, there are at least 9 possibilites for not understanding each other. That is why it is so important to take the time to communicate !!!'....
Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU:....
'The money that one possesses is the instrument of freedom; the money that one pursues is the instrument of servitude !!!'....
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ARISTOTE:....
-'To love is to enjoy, whereas being loved is not only about enjoyment...'....
-'To love is to escape the mediocrity of others by a sole Being !!!'....
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VOLTAIRE:....
-'The devil's biggest trick was to make us believe that he didn't exist !!!'....
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Jacques DE BOURBON BUSSET:....
-'To love is to find one's truth, thanks to the other, and help the other find His or Hers, through a passionate bond !!!'....
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Réjean DUCHARME:....
-'To love is to choose someone for oneself and to let oneself be taken by him or her !!!'....
Victor HUGO:...
-'To love is to savour the quantity of sky that God puts in flesh (mankind) in thearms of the ....
Dear Being !!!'
Thanking you for your visit, for having shared a moment of my intimity, under the quill of my reflection, and hoping, lastly, that you will have liked the selection of musical extracts on my site. I would like to extend my warmest regards to you all.....
Musically yours.....
Love and kisses.....
JEAD.