Éric Serra

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 SaintMandé 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 Bessons directed films to date except AngelA 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 modernsounding avantgarde soundtrack than had been used in previous Bond films It met with mixed reviews from film critics While Serras 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 themeDavid 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 Its 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 artists name when pronounced as initial letters in French Serra composed the music for the 2008 Las Vegas Criss AngelCirque 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 CCBYSA 30