Aas a five year old in monaco, didier marouani began his classical music studies in piano, notation and harmonics. at the age of fifteen, he entered the paris conservatoire and was to graduate with a second prize in piano and a first in music notation. didier began composing songs at the early age of ten to have his first recorded song two years later. 1975 : first lp as an acclaimed singer in france. he also went on tours with johnny hallyday, joe dassin and claude franÇois. 1977 : more interested by composition than singing and looking for international recognition, he formed the group space, composing all its music under the pseudonym : ecama.it was propelled to the top of all hit-parades. magic fly became number one in the world (n° 1 in record sales, as well as radio and club hit parades in france, germany, italy, spain, scandinavia, south america, england, the soviet union, reaching the number one spot in the united sates national disco charts. a contract was signed with casablanca records, where the band s third album was to rank number 45 in billboard s record sales). the song « carry on turn me on » was the first french song to reach n° 1 in the billboard dance charts. in all, the three space albums sold more than 10 million records. the french foreign trade minister andré rossi awarded didier many golden records for having achieved one of the most important successes within the french record industry.. 1978- 1981 : didier travelled all around the world to promote his new lp which reached top 45 on billboard, top 1 in 10 countries, top 200 charts and top 1 in 10 countries. june 1983 : because his music was well-known in the soviet union, didier and his band space gave a series of 21 concerts in kiev and leningrad and in moscows olympic hall where more than 600.000 spectators attended the performance. june 1987 : didier worked on a new album space-opera, the first opera composed for synthesizers and choirs. he was able to obtain the participation of both the red army and the harvard university choirs (usa) for his album space-opera. the album was relayed to the soviet space station mir, thus making the album the first to be heard in space. space-opera went on to achieve great success in europe. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ee-owbbw60&feature=related - daft punk father !!!