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Jean Marcel Leroy was born in Amiens, [2] in the north of France. [3] He was given his first instrument, an accordion, at age 4 on Christmas Eve, 1933. [4] He learned to play piano [5] and studied music at a conservatory for two months, [6] during which he and several classmates formed a jazz band, which performed at the school and at public venues.
Jean-Jacques Perrey, French electronic music performer, composer, producer and promoter (SpongeBob SquarePants, Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman, The Mighty B!, ...
November 4: Jean-Jacques Perrey, French electronic music performer, composer, producer and promoter (composed background music for SpongeBob SquarePants, Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman, The Mighty B!, South Park and The Simpsons), dies from lung cancer at age 87.
Perrey and Kingsley (known also as "Perrey & Kingsley" or "Perrey-Kingsley") was an electronic music duo made up of French composer Jean-Jacques Perrey and German-American composer Gershon Kingsley. The duo lasted from 1965 to 1967 and both are considered pioneers of electronic music.
The Amazing New Electronic Pop Sound of Jean Jacques Perrey is the sixth studio album by French electronic musician Jean-Jacques Perrey, released in 1968 on the Vanguard Records label. The penultimate song "Four, Three, Two, One" was made together with Billy Mure. The final track "Gypsy in Rio" is a homage to Spike Jones. [1]
The Mighty B! (stylized in all caps) is an American animated television series created by former SNL cast member Amy Poehler, Cynthia True, and Erik Wiese for Nickelodeon.The series centers on Bessie Higgenbottom, an ambitious Honeybee girl scout who believes she will become The Mighty B (a superhero) if she collects every Honeybee badge.
Shortly after Perrey's death in November 2016, Australian musician Wally De Backer, also known as Gotye, launched a new record label, Forgotten Futures, whose first release, Jean-Jacques Perrey Et Son Ondioline, was an LP of previously unreleased recordings of Perrey playing Ondioline.
The instrument was introduced to a wider audience in the 1950s by electronic music pioneer Jean-Jacques Perrey (who was also an early adopter of the Moog synthesizer). In 1949, [9] Perrey, at the time a medical student, heard Jenny demonstrate the Ondioline on a French radio broadcast. "With the audacity of youth he phoned the radio station and ...