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Artist
Jean-Paul Prat
12+ albums
ZeuhlProgressive rockfrenchjazzfrench progressive rock
about
Jean-Paul Prat is a multi-instrumentalist and composer born in Grenoble, France on September 27, 1953. He began his musical path early on due to his mother's love of music. At the age of 9 he began taking private classical piano lessons. At age 14 he had already learned to play guitar by himself and then the drums by age 15. He would then be enthusiastic about English rock groups - The Beatles, The Moody Blues, and also with RnB bands for their rhythmic virtues and their use of brass instruments (which was presumably an influence for him for his recordings later on, as can be heard on Masal). At the age of 15, in 1968, he formed with a friend of his a dance orchestra. Prat was playing then the guitar and doing the vocals. As they expanded, he took on playing the organ and later on at the age of 18 switched to drumming and singing. This was an octet that was called Blackbirds, which played then-contemporary music. 18 years old, Prat decided then to study percussion at the conservatoire, but had gotten tired from it soon enough to return to playing music. This period finds him being thrilled with Chicago and Deep Purple. His next step would be starting to compose by himself in 1971, something that was driven by listening to Magma's unique music. He wanted to form a band that would perform those compositions, and asked some of his fellow dance orchestra friends. Joining him on his band in 1973, were his brother Richard Heritier on saxophone, Michel D'angelo on guitar and bass,
