GOLDMAN. According to information from Le Parisien, Michael, son of singer Jean-Jacques Goldman, has been appointed as director of TF1’s Star Academy.
The star Academy new version becomes clearer. According to information revealed this Tuesday, August 30 by The Parisian, the new tele-hook promotion of TF1 will be headed by Michael Goldman, son of singer Jean-Jacques Goldman. An “evidence” according to a source familiar with the matter interviewed by the daily: “He is 43 years old, he knows the music world like the back of his hand, he is excited about the project, he has a good face… And then the name Goldman , it will inevitably help, let’s not hide our face!”, Adds the same anonymous source.
Michael Goldman will therefore take over from Alexia Laroche-Joubert (director of the star Academy in 2001 and 2002, then from 2005 to 2007), Nathalie André, Gérard Louvin and Armande Altaï. Relatively unknown to the general public, Michael Goldman made a name for himself in the music industry in 2007 by creating the label and crowdfunding platform reserved for musicians My Major Company, which manages, among other things, the career of Joyce Jonathan. Born on July 24, 1979 in Paris, he also launched the French crowdfunding platform Tipeee in 2013.
Lyricist in his spare time, Michael Goldman found himself at the heart of a controversy at the release of the controversial documentary on the Covid-19 Heist, at the end of 2020, its platform having hosted its financing. “I assume everything there is on this site, from the most anti-Semitic to the least anti-Semitic, and from the most conspiratorial to the least conspiratorial”, he had declared in the program Complément d’Enquête on France 2 in 2021, advocating freedom of speech.