Biography
Originally with 'The Plasmatics ', the most outrageous, controversial, and successful Punk bands of all time, the iconic Blonde Mohawk of Jean Beauvoir has been an ongoing major influence on US and international pop culture in music, sports, film and TV; including several cartoons. His most recent acting role is in the upcoming film "The Killer's Requiem" (a leading role) set for release in 2019 , with other film work in 'Berlin Nights', 'Doro: 25 Years in Rock', 'A Man Apart', 'Cellular' and The Bronx Warriors' and others.
In addition to his time with the Plasmatics, Beauvoir was also a longtime songwriter and producer for the Ramones. Today, both bands are hailed as two of the most revolutionary bands of the twentieth century. They are the original O.G. Punks and the Godfather's and Grand Dame (Wendy O. Williams) of Punk & Metal.
Music by Jean Beauvoir, covering various genres from Pop, R&B, Rock and Metal has been featured in well known, successful films throughout his solo career including Cobra (Sylvester Stallone), Pet Sematary (Stephen King), Christmas with the Kranks (Tim Allen, Dan Aykroyd), Rock 'n Roll High School Forever (Corey Feldman), School of Rock (Jack Black) Shocker (Wes Craven), Flawless (Robert DeNiro), The Guilty (Bill Pullman), Unthinkable (Samuel L. Jackson), RV (Robin Williams), and Why Me? to name a few.
His most recent musical success for another musical artist is the Beauvoir penned single "Crazy (Guilty Pleasure)" by Jonghyun of the K-pop Super Group SHINee, with the video being the most watched K-pop video worldwide during January 2015. The single on the album 'Base' topped music charts around the world at #1, including Billboard and iTunes World Charts. As an entertainment executive, Beauvoir was hired by Executive Producer Lassee Hallberg ("Lily Hammer" TV Series) to work as an Executive Producer for SBS Discovery Television Scandinavia. It was the highest rated show in the country upon its release.
His new single "Standing On the Corner for Ya" debuts globally on the Wendy Williams Show December 29, 2017. The re-recording is a nod to music mogul Jimmy Iovine who was instrumental in Beauvoir forming his successful rock band Crown Of Thorns and in furthering his career.
There are currently over 700-published songs in the Jean Beauvoir music catalog for licensing through his company Hot Boy Music/Universal. Songs he has written and/or produced for various other artist's are also available for licensing by Mr. Beauvoir including popular recordings by the Ramones like "My Brain Is Hanging Upside Down" (Bonzo Goes to Bitburg), and Pet Sematary. Mr. Beauvoir is well known for custom writing music for different projects including film, television and video gaming. His music boxes below feature multiple recordings covering different genres for your perusal.
Music in Film: The Beginning After leaving the Plasmatics, Beauvoir recorded his solo debut album 'Drums Along the Mohawk' for Virgin Records. Sylvester Stallone, while editing in a Hollywood studio, caught a glimpse of the video for "Feel The Heat" which was also being edited and chose it as the leading track for his film 'Cobra'. When "Feel The Heat" caught the attention of Al Teller (Columbia) he offered Beauvoir a U.S. deal , with him and Richard Branson (Virgin) ma king the album a priority release. "Feel the Heat" was eventually selected as the title track for the movie and trailer, at the time, receiving the largest worldwide advertising and promotional budget for a Hollywood film to date.
The initial reception for Cobra was harsh by critics enticing the public to believe the film a failure. Fans responded slaying critics when Cobra debuted Memorial Day Weekend #1 at the box office taking in over $15.6-million, more than double its contender Top Gun and broke the previous year's record set by Rambo Part 2.
"Feel the Heat" entered Billboard's Hot 100 in the US, hit the "Top 10" charts across Europe and Australia and was featured in heavy rotation on MTV and VH1 for months upon release. Today, the "Feel the Heat" video for the movie Cobra is a VH1 Classic. Cobra went on to become a huge financial success taking in over $160-million, over six times its original $25-million budget. Cobra and its soundtrack are still selling today with both receiving high reviews through Amazon and other outlets; as are many of the other movies featuring music by Jean Beauvoir. As with Cobra, many other films featuring music by Jean Beauvoir are continuing with the same success stories including Christmas with the Kranks (Tim Allen, Dan Aykroyd), Rock 'n Roll High School Forever (Corey Feldman), School of Rock (Jack Black) Shocker (Wes Craven), RV (Robin Williams), and many others.
Full Bio: Born of Haitian parents in Chicago, Illinois, Jean was destined to be a performer. He was the leader of the junior high school rock band at 13, which lead to playing dances and clubs throughout the New York area. At 15, he was recruited to be musical director for Gary US Bonds and went on to do shows throughout the US with Dick Clark, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry and many others. Soon after this, he became the youngest lead singer of the group The Flamingos of "I Only Have Eyes for You" fame.
At age 16, having difficulty at home with his choice of profession, he moved out and headed to the Big Apple, where shortly after arriving he became immersed in the New York punk scene. Soon afterward he answered a newspaper ad and was eventually recruited for 'The Plasmatics', where he changed his image to suit the part and the awakening of the blond Mohawk was born. Introduced as "the greatest punk rock band in the entire world" by Tom Snyder on his late night television show, 'The Plasmatics' were the most outrageous, controversial and successful Punk rock bands of all time. The Plasmatics began dominating US and worldwide press within six months of his entry to the gang. Wendy O 'Williams and the band's exorbitant stage antics shocked millions and made them a household name as a highlight of the 6 o'clock news and Saturday morning cartoons. Beauvoir left 'The Plasmatics' after three years of constant touring and recording.
Shortly after departing 'The Plasmatics' Gary U.S. Bonds' manager introduced him to Little Steven Van Zandt, who recognizing his talent convinced Beauvoir to participate in 'Little Steven & Disciples of Soul' albums Men without Women and Voice of America. It was the beginning of a long friendship and working relationship where he toured with Van Zandt and was also a producer on his two albums. 'Men Without Women' and 'Voice of America' by Steven Van Zandt were his first and second solo albums respectfully, with both being critically acclaimed albums. The success of the albums resulted in two years of worldwide touring giving Beauvoir the credibility he needed to launch his own solo career. Several years after the success of his own multi-platinum solo career, Van Zandt hired him once again to serve as CEO/Managing Director of Renegade Nation, Steven Van Zandt's media and entertainment company, whose operations include terrestrial and Sirius Satellite radio programming, live event and television production, record label operations, music licensing, merchandising and an online social networking venture, "Fuzztopia".
After leaving Little Steven & the Disciples of Soul to begin his own solo career, Beauvoir signed with well known manger Gary Kurfirst who inked a deal with Richard Branson (Virgin Records) which resulted in Beauvoirs' first co-venture label deal with Virgin with his solo debut album 'Drums Along the Mohawk' slated as its first release. After recording "Drums Along the Mohawk' was complete, editing for the title track "Feel the Heat" began. Sylvester Stallone, while editing in a Hollywood studio, caught a glimpse of "Feel the Heat" being edited. Stallone personally selected the single as the title track for his film 'Cobra'. When "Feel the Heat" caught the attention of Al Teller (Columbia) he immediately offered Beauvoir a U.S. deal for the album which he and Branson both made a priority release. The song was eventually selected as the title track for the 'Cobra 'trailer, at the time, receiving the largest worldwide advertising and promotional budget for a Hollywood film to date.
The initial reception for 'Cobra' was harsh by critics enticing the public to believe the film a failure. Fans responded slaying critics when 'Cobra' debuted Memorial Day weekend #1 at the box office taking in over $15.6-million, more than double it's contender Top Gun and broke the previous years record held by Rambo Pt 2. "Feel the Heat" sold over 1.5-million copies upon release, entered Billboard's Hot 100 in the US, hit "Top 10" charts across Europe and Australia, with its video featured in heavy rotation on MTV and VH1 for months when released to television outlets. 'Cobra' has since gone on to become an even larger financial success taking in over $160-million to date and counting, over six times its original $25-million budget. The movie and soundtrack are still selling today with both receiving high reviews through Amazon and other outlets. During the summer of 2017, Sylvester Stallone posted an image for 'Cobra' on his Facebook site with the caption "Crime Is A Disease, Flashback or Comeback?" where it is still featured.
After his solo debut, Beauvoir launched the first of his two successful rock bands, Voodoo X (Columbia Records) and Crown Of Thorns (Interscope Records) respectfully. The video for "Voodoo Queen" by his band Voodoo X has the only video in music history filmed during an actual live voodoo ritual. His debut Crown Of Thorns album resulted in a highly publicized bidding war within the industry with even Prince placing a $1-million against Jimmy Iovine (Interscope) and other major labels for rights to the album. When the self titled 'Crown Of Thorns' debut album hit shops it was to critical acclaim. The album hit Metal Charts one week after release where it stayed for six months. Kerrang! dubbed it "one of the finest American hard rock albums in recent years".
He is the CEO and President of Voodoo Island Records and Voodoo Island Entertainment Group, an advisory board member of the Naples Film Festival (NIFF), and advisory Board Member of the Academy of Music & Business. Over the course of his professional career, he has created joint venture partnerships with some of the most powerful music industry luminaries including Richard Branson (Virgin Records), Al Teller (Columbia Records), Ted Fields and Jimmy Iovine (Interscope Records), Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley (Kiss), Lou Perlman and labels such as Def Jam, Warner Bros, Avex, EMI, Edel and more. Through these partnerships he has released or contributed to over 100 Albums over the past two decades, and has sold in excess of 30 million records worldwide as an artist, producer and songwriter. As the founder and President of Hot Boy Music and Tigre Noire Music Publishing his partners have included SBK Entertainment, EMI music publishing, CBS Songs International, Polygram Music Publishing, Bertelsmann Music Group and currently Rondor/Universal Music Group. His worldwide music catalog contains over 700-published works available for licensing. As a philanthropist, he is actively involved in the successful 'Hand in Hand Charity', Berlin Germany and founded the 'Beauvoir Haiti Foundation' whose focus is on initiatives for the awareness and betterment of the people in Haiti, which he created to work on Haiti relief efforts following in the footsteps of his parents, Raoul and Eddie Beauvoir (deceased), who devoted the last 20 years of their lives in service of Haiti through the funding and building of a medical clinic and their community activism.
He has written (and/or produced hits) with KISS, The Ramones, N'Sync, John Waite, Deborah Harry, Lionel Richie, The Pretenders, Carol Davis, Nile Rogers, Nona Hendryx, Desmond Child, Jim Vallance, Andreas Carlsson, Harry Sommerdahl, Doro Pesch and many more, including five Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame inductees; and is ranked "One of Music's Top 50 Most Influential Black Rockers" by Guitar magazine. He has also toured and/or performed with such well known acts as the Eurythmics, David Bowie, Tina Turner, Bon Jovi, Van Halen, The Who, Dave Mathews, Bruce Springsteen and The E-Street Band, and Aerosmith to name a few. As a member and songwriter for 'The Plasmatics', and longtime songwriter and/or producer for 'The Ramones', Jean Beauvoir is forever linked to two of the most ground-breaking, revolutionary bands of the twentieth century. Today, members of both bands are revered as the 'Original O.G. Punks' and 'Godfather's and Grand Dame of Punk & Metal'. Most recently, music by Jean Beauvoir is featured in "School Oz", the world's first hologram musical. The Jean Beauvoir penned single "Crazy (Guilty Pleasure)" by Jonghyun of the K-pop Super Group SHINee, on their album 'Base' topped music charts around the world at #1, including Billboard and iTunes World Charts. with the video being the most watched K-pop video worldwide during January 2015.
His new single "Standing On the Corner for Ya" debuts globally on the Wendy Williams Show December 29, 2017. The re-recording is a nod to music mogul Jimmy Iovine who was instrumental in Beauvoir forming his successful rock band Crown Of Thorns. He recently wrapped filming a leading role in the film "The Killer's Requiem" set for release in 2019 and is currently reviewing several other movie offers recently submitted for his casting consideration.
