Jean-Luc Differdange

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Jean-Luc Differdange (born October 11, 1951 in Brussels - Ixelles ) is a Belgian-Luxembourg photographer and singer-songwriter .

Jean-Luc Differdange (2012)

Life

In 1958 his family moved to Düsseldorf , after which they moved to Cologne in 1962 . Here he finished his school career and was trained as a photographer in Sander Photography by Gunther Sander, the son of the famous German photographer August Sander . After completing his training, he worked as an assistant to Gerd Sander, August Sander's grandson. In 1976 he began his musical career with his first record release, after he had been lead singer and rhythm guitarist in the Cologne beat bands The Dreaming Corporation and The Muffetees since 1968 . By 1990 he released eight albums.

From 1990 he worked with Gerd Sander again in his profession as a photographer on the professional processing of the estate of August Sander, since 1993 as Gerd Sander's assistant in the August Sander archive of the SK Stiftung Kultur , and from 2014 until his retirement in 2017 for the Julian Sander Gallery . For the one-volume edition of the photo project People of the 20th Century by August Sander published in 2010 , he made the prints from the original negatives and carried out the necessary retouching.

From January 2014 he dedicated himself to his musical work, on which he had been working in parallel in the Railroad Tracks studio since 2007 , with the release of six more albums.

He is married and has 3 children.

Radio, television and the Eurovision Song Contest

Differdange has had numerous radio and television appearances since 1974, including in SWF3, SWF1, WDR1, WDR2, Deutschlandfunk, Radio Köln, BFBS, RTBF and in the WWF Club in 1981, 1986 and 1988, and at Einsfestival in April 2013.

He took part in the preselection for the preliminary decision of the Eurovision Song Contest six times : in 1981, twice in 1982, twice in 1984 and 1990.

Discography

  • 1976: 1st single: L´espérance / Many a year goes by (DJ 10002)
  • 1977: 1st LP: Chansons I (EMI - Electrola - F666040 - DJ 20003)
  • 1979: 2nd LP: Sometime (EMI - Electrola - F666671 - JL D.-Music 10001)
  • 1980: 3rd LP: L´homme heureux (EMI-Electrola - F667140 - JL D.-Music 10002)
  • 1981: 4th LP: Le mystère (EMI - Electrola - F667594 - JL D. - Music 10004)
  • 1983: 5th LP: I am the way I am (EMI - Electrola - F668379 - OW - 005)
  • 1985: 6. LP: The future is alive (EMI - Electrola - F669106 - OW - 009)
  • 1985: 2nd single: Why / The Future Lives (EMI - F669173 - OW - 0011)
  • 1987: 7th LP: Detached (EMI - F669784 - SM 4.1.4.87101)
  • 1990: 8th LP / CD: Grenzenlos (Seychelles - Music - SM 100.1.390)
  • 2007: 9th CD: Collection (Railroad Tracks - RRT 1220025)
  • 2008: 10th CD: Searching for a new world (Railroad Tracks - RRT 1230026)
  • 2008: 3rd single: Love is real / Love is real - Instrumental (RRT - Promotion)
  • 2009: 11th CD: Footprints (JL D. - Music 10011)
  • 2010: CD 12: Favorites (JL D. - Music 10012)
  • 2011: 13th CD: Tribute to my music (Railroad Tracks - RRT 1230027)
  • 2013: CD 14: The Definitive Collection / Peace in my heart (RRT 1230028)
  • 2017: 15th CD: When I was young (HBA - 17075)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ editorial Preliminary observations on the edited edition of August Sander People of the 20th Century by Gabriele Conrath-Scholl Schirmer / Mosel 2010
personal data
SURNAME Differdange, Jean-Luc
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Singer-songwriter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian photographer and singer-songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels - Ixelles