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Jean Paul Carrière, a non-professional musician, was born in Etterbeek (a municipality of Brussels) on March 29, 1949, to a father from Liège and a mother from Brussels of Flemish origin.
He was literally immersed in music from childhood. His father had learned (also as an amateur) to play the piano and organ and had composed several pieces for these instruments, as well as melodies. He therefore heard him play not only his own compositions but also other works on the piano and sing his melodies while accompanying himself.
He attended a Catholic school, which gave him the opportunity to be part of the choir and thus sing the entire Gregorian chant repertoire as well as polyphonic religious works.
Music was omnipresent in his home, both on the radio and on records. He began playing a little piano, then taught himself to play the accompaniment guitar.
Later, he studied singing at the Saint-Josse-ten-Noode Academy and, at the Woluwe-Saint-Lambert Academy, piano, accompaniment guitar, and classical guitar, and even some chamber music. For several years, he accompanied himself on guitar at liturgical services at Don Bosco College and the Saint Luc Clinics in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert. From 2008 onward, he began composing for piano and gradually for other instruments; he then set poems to music and composed several songs. His catalog includes more than 230 works.