Question: Facts:   - instrument: synthesizer accordion , guitar , bass guitar , piano , organ , laser harp ,    - years active: 1972 -- present    - caption: jarre in milan , 2008    - origin: lyon , france    - label: disques warner bros. , emi dreyfus/bmg rights management/sony , polydor/polygram , epic/sme ,    - genre: ambient rock , new-age , electronic , trance , progressive      - birth date: 24 august 1948    - name: jean michel jarre    - background: non_vocal_instrumentalist    - image: jean michel jarre 2008.jpg    - occupation: composer , musician , artist , producer   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of jean michel jarre .
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jean michel jarre -lrb- born jean-michel andré jarre ; 24 august 1948 -rrb- is a french composer , performer , and music producer .he is a pioneer in the electronic , ambient , and new-age genres , and known as an organiser of outdoor spectacles of his music featuring lights , laser displays , and fireworks .jarre was raised in lyon by his mother and grandparents , and trained on the piano .from an early age he was introduced to a variety of art forms , including those of street performers , jazz musicians , and the artist pierre soulages .he played guitar in a band , but his musical style was perhaps most heavily influenced by pierre schaeffer , a pioneer of musique concrète at the groupe de recherches musicales .his first mainstream success was the 1976 album `` oxygène '' .recorded in a makeshift studio at his home , the album sold an estimated 12 million copies .`` oxygène '' was followed in 1978 by '' Équinoxe '' , and in 1979 jarre performed to a record-breaking audience of more than a million people at the place de la concorde , a record he has since broken three times .more albums were to follow , but his 1979 concert served as a blueprint for his future performances around the world .several of his albums have been released to coincide with large-scale outdoor events , and he is now perhaps as well known as a performer as well as a musician .as of 2004 jarre had sold an estimated 80 million albums .he was the first western musician officially invited to perform in the people 's republic of china , and holds the world record for the largest-ever audience at an outdoor event .