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Eric Serra (born on September 9, 1959) is a French composer, often working with Luc Besson on his movies.

Biography

Eric Serra's Father Claude was a famous French song writer in the 50's and 60's and as such Eric was exposed to music and its production at a young age. His mother died when he was just 7 years of age. In the early 80's Serra met director Luc Besson and was asked to scored his first movie 'L'Avant dernier' (1981). As of the time of writing Serra has scored every single one of Bessons directed movies to date and several that Besson has written such as Wasabi.

In 1995, Eric Serra was chosen to compose the score to the James Bond film GoldenEye, which was quite an avant-garde soundtrack compared to previous Bond films, and it with met mixed opinions from film critics.

Other Projects

From 1980 to 1988 Eric Serra played bass guitar for French singer Jacques Higelin.

Eric Serra is also a talented songwriter, most notably previously having written songs for Le Grand Bleu (The Big Blue) (a song titled 'my lady blue') and Léon (Titled 'Hey Little Angel', however this was unused in the actual film, save a few minor instrumentals. It was to be used in the final scene/credits but was replaced by the less lyrically appropriate 'shape of my heart' by Sting) as well as several other movies. In 1998 Eric Serra finally released an album of rock music titled 'RXRA'.

On Screen Appearances

Serra has spent little time in front of the camera choosing to work behind the scenes instead, however, on French television he has made a number of appearances performing music. Most notably however in the Luc Besson movie Subway in which he plays 'Enrico the bassist'.

Film Scores

Eric Serra has created the scores for the following movies;

# Arthur and the Minimoys(2006) (filming) # Bandidas (2006) (post-production) # Bulletproof Monk (2003) # Rollerball (2002) # Décalage horaire (2002) # Wasabi (2001) # Art (délicat) de la séduction, L' (2001) # The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999) # The Fifth Element (1997) # GoldenEye (1995) # Léon aka The Professional (1994) # Atlantis (documentary) (1991) # Nikita aka La Femme Nikita (1990) # The Big Blue aka Le Grand bleu'' (1988) (European version, a separate soundtrack composed by Bill Conti was created for the US version) # Kamikaze (1986) # Subway (1985) # Nuit du flingueur, La (1984) (TV) # Dernier combat, Le (1983) # Avant dernier, L' (1981)

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