François Jouffa

François Jouffa (born the December 6th 1943) is a journalist, author and organizer of radio programs and television. Wire of Yves Jouffa (lawyer, former president of the League of the Human rights).

Biography

Journalist of written press (of VSD to Paris-Match while passing by Libé ration and Le Figaro), of television (many emissions on Antenna 2 like " 1 on 5" then on TF1 like " All the songs have a histoire"), of radio (20 years with Radio France including 10 years on France-Inter in " the Ear in Corner " , then the position of director of France Inter Paris during the years 1980; and 20 years with Europe 1 with emissions like " Campus" , " Bleu" square; , " Radio operator Libre" and " Vinyl Fraise" , most known since daily during the years 1990).

It met all the artists who revolutionized the song and the popular music of the XXe century: on the Fields-Elysées with Elvis Presley, in the plane with the Beatles, in the cabins of the Rolling Stones or of Stevie Wonder, in slides with Jim Morrison or Jimi Hendrix, in round with Bob Marley, etc He was the privileged French interlocutor of Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger or John Lennon. Its analyzes, comments, interviews were published in about thirty reference books.

Also impassioned World music, the many discs which it produced in Asia South-east make authority in the world of the ethnomusique one.

Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters (1985, Jack Lang Minister for the Culture).

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