Francois Jouffa Biography
François Jouffa (1953 - ) is a journalist, author and host of radio and television programmes. He is the son of Yves Jouffa (lawyer, former president of the Human Rights League). He is a journalist for the written press (from VSD to Paris-Match via Liberation and Le Figaro), television (many programs on Antenne 2 such as "1 sur 5", then on TF1 such as "All songs have a story"), and radio (20 years at Radio France, including 12 years on France-Inter in "l'Oreille en Coin", then the position of director of France Inter Paris in the 1980s; and 20 years at Europa 1 with programs such as " Campus", "Carré Bleu", "Radio Libre" and "Vinyl Fraise", the best known since it was a daily newspaper in the 1990s). He met all the artists who revolutionized the song and popular music of the twentieth century: on the Champs-Elysées with Elvis Presley, on the plane with the Beatles, in the dressing rooms of the Rolling Stones or Stevie Wonder, backstage with Jim Morrison or Jimi Hendrix, touring with Bob Marley, etc. He was the privileged French interlocutor of Bob Dylan, Mick Jagger or John Lennon. His analyses, commentaries and interviews have been published in around thirty reference books. He has signed, co-signed and published about a hundred books: mainly books on popular music, then humorous books in the last ten years.
