Jean-Jacques Perrey

Jean-Jacques Perrey
Perrey at a concert in 2006
Background information
Birth name	Jean Marcel Leroy
Born	(1929-01-20)20 January 1929 Amiens, France
Died	4 November 2016(2016-11-04) (aged 87) Lausanne, Switzerland
Genres	Electronic electropop easy listening novelty space age pop film soundtracks avant-garde
Occupation(s)	Composer arranger performer recording artist music producer
Instrument(s)	Synthesizer piano Ondioline Moog synthesizer accordion
Years active	1951–2014
Labels	MusiCues Vanguard Pickwick Montparnasse 2000 Oglio Lo Forgotten Futures
Website	Jean-JacquesPerrey.com

Jean Marcel Leroy (20 January 1929 – 4 November 2016), better known as Jean-Jacques Perrey (French: [pɛʁɛ]), was a French electronic music performer, composer, producer, and promoter. He is considered a pioneer of pop electronica.^[1] Perrey partnered with composer-performer Gershon Kingsley to form the electronic music duo Perrey and Kingsley, who issued some of the first commercial recordings featuring the Moog synthesizer. Perrey was also one of the first to promote, perform, and record with the Ondioline, developed by Georges Jenny.