Jean-Eric PERRIN

Jean-Eric Perrin is an author and novelist, also a specialist in popular music and the social and cultural movements associated with it. Author of around fifty works, he has also written numerous documentaries for television (Canal +, France 5, France 3, Toute L'Histoire).
Having joined Rock & Folk at the very end of the 70s, to create the "Frenchy But Chic" column (which revealed Etienne Daho, Indochine, Taxi Girl, Rita Mitsouko, etc.), he transferred to Best in 1982, to become deputy editor-in-chief in 1989. Against general opinion, he imposed rap there in 1987 as a musical movement of the future. In 1996 he created RER, the first monthly magazine on rap and urban cultures. In 2004/2005, he took over as editor-in-chief of the French edition of Rolling Stone and as editorial director of the music division of the Cyberpress group (Trax, Groove, Hard & Heavy, Rap US, Rocksound, etc.). Since 2006, he has been a consultant, documentary filmmaker, novelist, and essayist.