Jean-Jacques Daran was born in Turin on April 4, 1959, but is not Italian and few details are known of his personal life. A series of moves made his guitar and music his best friends. After the Daran et les Chaises adventure, he was reborn in the Déménagé mailbox in 1997. Augustin et Anita in 2000 was not a success, and Daran had his doubts. His duet with Florent Pagny on "L'Eau" enabled him to launch a career as a composer: he then signed for Florent Pagny, Johnny Hallyday and Maurane. Le Petit Peuple du Bitume, released in 2007, showed Daran to be musically accomplished, dark and relevant - all he needed was mass public recognition. 2009 saw the release of the Couvert de Poussière compilation. Now based in Canada, Daran released L'Homme Dont les Brasont des Branches in February 2012. The album was released in Europe in May 2013, with a tour to follow. Very stripped-down with Daran alone in a guitar-vocal exercise, Le Monde Perdu was released first in Quebec, in October 2014, then in France in March 2015. It is followed by Endorphine in 2017 and his first live album, Live à Montréal, in 2018. Several years pass, including the Covid-19 pandemic, before his return to the studio with the album Grand Hôtel Apocalypse, which returns to the physical sales charts in France, at number 95 in 2024.
