Trivia

In 1964, 1965, and 1966, Claudric was the musical director of the Grand Gala des Variétés. Moreover, he conducted the orchestra in the first four editions of the Marché International du Disque et de l'Edition Musicale (MIDEM) manifestation in Cannes (1967-1970).

Jean-Claude Bacri was born into a Jewish family in Alger, the capital of what was then French Algeria.

He taught himself to play the old piano which his mother had inherited.

Between 1962 and 1968, he was the resident conductor of the International Mediterranean Song Festival, annually held in Barcelona, leading the orchestra for all competing entries.

The list of artists with whom Jean Claudric worked as an arranger in the course of the 1960s is quite impressive: Fernandel, Josephine Baker, Philippe Clay, Jean-Claude Pascal, Jean-Paul Mauric, Dany Dauberson, Colette Rivat, Michel Polnareff, Jean Sablon, Johnny Hallyday, Les Surfs, France Gall, Dalida, Patricia Carli, Guy Mardel, Rika Zaraï, Minouche Barelli, and Les Compagnons de la Chanson.

In the 1960s, he was the musical director of hundreds of stage shows in Paris' Olympia Music Hall.

His parents lacked the financial means to allow their son to follow piano courses, but, in 1944, his uncle Marcel, a professional actor, helped out by paying all his expenses.