Éric Serra

Personal Info

Known For

Sound

Known Credits

4

Gender

Male

Birthday

1959-09-09 (64 years old)

Place of Birth

Saint-Mandé, Val-de-Marne, France

Also Known As

  • Eric Serra

Éric Serra

Biography

Éric Serra (born 9 September 1959) is a French musician and composer. He is a frequent collaborator of film director Luc Besson.

Éric Serra was born in Saint-Mandé. His father Claude was a famous French songwriter in the 1950s and '60s, and so Éric was thus exposed to music and its production at a young age. His mother died when he was just seven years old.

In the early 1980s, Éric Serra met director Luc Besson and was asked to score his first film, Le Dernier Combat (1983). Serra has scored all of Besson's directed films to date, except Angel-A (2005) (scored by Anja Garbarek), and several that Besson has written, such as Wasabi.

In 1995, Serra was chosen to compose the score to the James Bond film GoldenEye, and produced a much more modern-sounding avant-garde soundtrack than had been used in previous Bond films. It met with mixed reviews from film critics. While Serra's score has been seen by some as highly innovative, many Bond fans have criticized it and often highlighted the lack of the classic, instantly recognizable Bond leitmotif originally created by Monty Norman and John Barry. The GoldenEye producers later hired John Altman to score the tank chase sequence, which incorporated a traditional arrangement of the Bond theme.David Arnold would succeed Serra as Bond composer until 2008.

Serra is sometimes known as RXRA due to the French pronunciation of his name. His composition Little Light of Love on the soundtrack of the film The Fifth Element is credited to RXRA.

Serra has been the partner of Australian model Jodi Luschwitz for 17 years, with whom he has two children: Ashani and Mitivaï.

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

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

Serra composed the music for the 2008 Las Vegas Criss Angel/Cirque Du Soleil show 'Criss Angel: Believe'.

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, and notably appeared in the Luc Besson film Subway in which he plays 'Enrico the bassist'.

Source: Article "Éric Serra" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

Subway
6.5%

Subway

Apr 10, 1985

Nulle part ailleurs
5.8%

Nulle part ailleurs

Aug 31, 1987

Stars 90
6.2%

Stars 90

Sep 3, 1990

Victoires de la musique
0.0%

Victoires de la musique

Nov 23, 1985

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1990
Stars 90 as self
1987
Nulle part ailleurs as Self
1985
Victoires de la musique as Self (Original Cinema/Television Soundtrack of the Year)
1985
Subway as Le Bassiste

Sound

Prost as Music
2023
Dogman as Music
2019
Anna as Original Music Composer
2017
Renegades as Original Music Composer
2014
Lucy as Original Music Composer
2011
The Lady as Original Music Composer
2010
Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds as Original Music Composer
2009
Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard as Original Music Composer
2006
Arthur and the Invisibles as Original Music Composer
2006
Bandidas as Original Music Composer
2003
Bulletproof Monk as Music
2002
Jet Lag as Original Music Composer
2002
Rollerball as Original Music Composer
2001
Wasabi as Original Music Composer
2001
L'Art (délicat) de la séduction as Original Music Composer
1999
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc as Music
1997
The Fifth Element as Conductor
1997
The Fifth Element as Music Arranger
1997
The Fifth Element as Original Music Composer
1995
Goldeneye: The Secret Files as Music
1995
GoldenEye as Original Music Composer
1994
Léon: The Professional as Original Music Composer
1991
Atlantis as Music
1990
La Femme Nikita as Original Music Composer
1988
The Big Blue as Original Music Composer
1986
Kamikaze as Music
1985
Subway as Original Music Composer
1985
Subway as Musician
1983
The Last Battle as Musician
1983
The Last Battle as Music
1983
The Last Battle as Music Arranger
1981
L'Avant Dernier as Music
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