MATRIXSYNTH: Jean Jacques Perrey Interview on Astronauta Pinguim


Sunday, March 11, 2012

Jean Jacques Perrey Interview on Astronauta Pinguim


"Jean Jacques Perrey was born on January 20, 1929 in a small village in the north of France. When he was 4 years old, Santa Claus brought him his first accordion (on Christmas Eve, 1933) and, after that, he was possessed by a "little demon of music", as he says. In 1952 while attending medical school in Paris he met George Jenny, inventor of an innovative musical instrument called Ondioline. This contact with Georges Jenny was only the first of a series of meetings with personalities who passed through the life of Jean Jacques Perrey and that somehow have marked his whole career. Because of his enormous talent to play the "ondioline", he was invited by the famous singer Edith Piaf to take part in her shows - as a musician, playing the Ondioline..."

Read the full post on Astronauta Pinguim here. via Fabricio Carvalho on The MATRIXSYNTH Lounge

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