Jean-Pierre Danel - A French guitarist listed among the best players in the world on the US site worldguitarists.com






Jean-Pierre Danel (born 1968) is a French self-taught guitarist, record producer and composer. He iss the best selling instrumental guitarist in France as well as a record producer with sales exceeding 21 million copies.

Danel started his career as a professional guitarist in July 1982, at the age of 14.
He was then mainly influenced by the English guitar legends Hank Marvin and The Shadows . After many tours and studio recordings with French session musicians, he released various guitar albums, 7 gold discs in Europe . In the US, his album " Stratospheric " was named Best Album of the Year 2000 by the Instrumental Rock Guitar Hall Of Fame , and Danel was also named Composer of the Year for his track "Ballad For a Friend" . As a guitarist, the Instrumental Rock Guitar Hall Of Fame described him as "brilliant and expressive .

In 2001, he was featured on the charitable Unicef album released by Sony Music , " Guitar Masters – The Greatest Guitarists in the World ", along with Eric Clapton , Carlos Santana , BB King , Al Di Meola , Popa Chubby , Stanley Jordan , and others. As a producer, he started his own company, Puzzle Productions, in 1989. He has produced or co-produced for various French and international artists, scoring 210 hit records, including 109 Top 10 and exactly 20 #1 hits in France . Danel has also received 154 gold and platinum discs for his productions, which have sold more than 21 million copies.

His work also includes the production, with DJ Da French Guy, of radio remixes for artists such as Madonna , Britney Spears , Daft Punk , and Moby . In October 2002, with the re-release by Sony of a part of his back catalogue, he was the producer with the highest number of albums and singles in the French national charts during one same week, with 19 records ranked . His new album Guitar Connection , released by Sony/BMG in July 2006 is the only instrumental guitar album to reach the #1 spot in the charts in France , and received a double gold disc (for more than 160,000 copies sold) . The DVD received a diamond disc and two singles hit the Top 20.

"Guitar Connection 2" was released in March 2007, hitting the charts at #8 . The album features some famous guest stars, and includes a duet with British legend Hank Marvin on the standard "Nivram". The single hits the French chart at #14. His duet which French star Laurent Voulzy hits the charts at #7, followed by another hit single at #13. The Guitar Connection 2' DVD received a double platinum dis c.
In June 2007, Danel received the "Grand Prix Français de la Guitare" award as well as a multi-diamond distinction award for 25 years in the music business .
In March 2008, his single "NZ Girl Blues" hits the charts at #5 .

Guitar Connection 3 hits the charts at #18 in July 2008, the dvd gets a platinum disc and two singles enter the charts, including "The Pink Side of Miss Daisy", which goes to #9, and a Top 20 hit with a cover of "Honky Tonk Woman".
In March 2009, Guitar Connection - Tribute to The Shadows hit the album charts at #6, provides a hit single, and the video version gets a gold disc.
In August 2009, he launches the charitable Out of the blues guitar project, first participative album allowing any guitar player to participate in a commercialy released album playing among various international well known guitarists.
He is featured in the alphabetical list of the 1 000 best guitarists in the world on the american website "worldguitarist.com".

Danel also wrote the books "Femme mode d’Emploi" (quotations about women), and "Tribute to the Fender Stratocaster " based on his guitar collection, which includes " Miss Daisy ", " Lady Rose " and " La Marquise ". In 2007, he published a biography of French playwriter, director and actor, Sacha Guitry , an autobiography and several other books in 2008.

Jean-Pierre is the son of the well known French pop singer Pascal Danel , who wrote and sang the 60s French hits "Les Neiges du Kilimandjaro" and "La Plage aux Romantiques", among others, and he is the nephew of opera director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle .

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