Éric Serra

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Éric Serra (born on September 9, 1959) is a French composer. He has often worked on the movies of Luc Besson.

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[edit] Biography

Éric Serra's father Claude was a famous French songwriter in the 1950s and '60s, and, as such, Éric was exposed to music and its production at a young age. His mother died when he was just seven years old. In the early '80s, Serra met director Luc Besson and was asked to score his first movie L'Avant dernier (1981). Serra has scored all of Besson's directed movies to date and several that Besson has written such as Wasabi.

In 1995, Éric Serra was chosen to compose the score to the James Bond film GoldenEye, which was quite an avant-garde soundtrack compared to previous Bond films. It met with mixed reviews from film critics.

Occasionally, and mainly due to his album released by this name, he is known in credits as RXRA (pronounces like his name). An example is Little Light of Love on the Fifth Element OST, it is performed by RXRA.

[edit] Other projects

From 1980 to 1988, Éric Serra played bass guitar for French singer Jacques Higelin.

Éric Serra is also a songwriter, notably having written "It's Only Mystery" for the film Subway and "My Lady Blue" for Le Grand Bleu. In 1998, Éric Serra released an album of rock music titled RXRA which resembles the artist's name when pronounced as initial letters in French.

[edit] Onscreen appearances

Serra has spent little time in front of the camera choosing to work behind the scenes instead. However, on French television he has made a number of appearances performing music. Most notably however in the Luc Besson movie Subway in which he plays 'Enrico the bassist'.

[edit] Film scores

Éric Serra has created the scores for the following movies:

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Preceded by
Michael Kamen
1989		 James Bond film score composer
1995		 Succeeded by
David Arnold
1997—