Like his famous father, Michael Goldman is the low-key type. A successful entrepreneur – we owe him My Major Company and Tipeee – he stays away from the worldliness of show business, leading a life of ease in the shadows. The newspaper Release collected in 2008 his rare confidences in a portrait. And the forty-year-old is not lacking in repartee.
Michael Goldman was born from the marriage between singer Jean-Jacques Goldman and his first wife Catherine Morlet. He grew up to the rhythm of his father’s hits All it takes is a sign (nineteen eighty one), When the music is good (1982), I give you (1985) or The low (1987), then attending the very posh Ecole alsacienne in the chic 6th arrondissement of Paris. And if the establishment has long welcomed the children of stars, industrialists or politicians, the young man preferred to hide the identity of his parent. “I told ’em daddy was a plumber“, he swears. What to offer peace and not to suffer too much from the weight of the notoriety of the one who remains always one of the favorite personalities of the French. Moreover, even today, Michael has a crude and hit-and-miss formula to describe his status as the son of: “Having him as a father is like having a 30 cm dick, it has advantages and disadvantages.“
While his illustrious father leads a peaceful life with wife and children between London and Marseille, far from the music industry, Michael Goldman recognizes that he lives “better“its status today thanks to the extreme discretion of Jean-Jacques.”I even listen to his records with admiration“, assures the one who also loves music and notably participated in the writing of the ultimate tube of Lâam, Little sister. The businessman, in a relationship with a TV producer with whom he lives in the 15th arrondissement of the capital, nevertheless specifies that he received more help from his uncle Robert Goldman than from his father, to start in the ‘industry. Producer and composer, it was he who helped him to enter a record company to climb the ladder and discover all the business professions. But these two father figures share ultimately the same outlook on life:The values of the family have always been integration through work. We must reward those who toil, those who get up early“, says Michael.
It should be noted that Jean-Jacques Goldman is in the musical news because of the preparation of a disc, under the leadership of his friend Erick Benzi, entitled The Goldman Legacy, Volume 1. A disc recorded with the agreement of the discreet JJG, on which we can find Lilian Renaud, Marina Kaye or even Michael Jones…