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Jean-Jacques Goldman (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃.ʒak ɡɔldˈman]; born 11 October 1951) is a Grammy Award-winning French singer-songwriter. He is hugely popular in the French-speaking world, and since 2003 has been the second-highest-grossing French living pop-rock singer, after Johnny Hallyday. In the 1990s, he was part of the trio Fredericks Goldman Jones with a string of hits.
Born in Paris to an immigrant Polish Jewish father, Alter Mojze Goldman and a German Jewish mother, Ruth Ambrunn, Goldman was the third of four children. As a child, he began his music studies on the violin, then the piano. In 1968, he abandoned his classical music studies for "American Rock & Roll" as well as folk music, listening to The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix or Aretha Franklin, and emphasizing the guitar. He also earned a business degree from the École Des Hautes Études Commerciales, commonly known as EDHEC, in Lille. In 1972, he met Catherine, his first wife, with whom he had three children. He first entered the French music scene as member of a progressive rock group named Taï Phong ("great wind, typhoon" in Vietnamese), which released its first album in 1975. Their first song to be a moderate hit was "Sister Jane." After singing four years and three albums in English with Taï Phong, Goldman was determined to do it alone and write and sing in French.
Graver l' écorce jusqu'a saigner
Clouer les portes s'emprisonner
Vivre des songes a trop veiller
Prier des ombres et tant marcher
J'ai beau me dire qu'il faut du temps
J'ai beau l'ecrire si noir sur blanc
Quoique je fasse ou que je sois
Rien ne t'efface je pense a toi
Passent les jours vides sillons
Dans la raison et sans amour
Passe ma chance tournent les vents
Reste l'absence obstinement
J'ai beau me dire que c'est comme ça
Que sans vieillir on n'oublie pas
Quoique je fasse ou que je sois
Rien ne t'efface je pense a toi
Et quoi que j'apprenne je ne sais pas
Pourquoi je saigne et pas toi
Y'a pas de haine y'a pas de roi
Ni dieu ni chaine qu'on ne combat
Mais que faut-il quelle puissance
Quelle arme brise l'indifference
Oh c'est pas juste c'est mal écrit
Comme une injure plus qu'un mépris
Et quoi que j'apprenne je ne sais pas
Pourquoi je saigne et pas toi