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Jacques Hélian

The conductor known as Jacques Hélian, whose real name was Jacques Mikaël Der Mikaëlian, was born in Paris on June 7, 1912. The son of an Armenian man and a French woman, he gave up his studies to study saxophone with his brother-in-law Raymond Legrand, and made his debut in Roland Dorsay's orchestra, which gave him his stage name Jacques Hélian. He joined Raymond Legrand's orchestra (1934-1936), then Jo Bouillon's, before joining Ray Ventura's Collégiens in 1936. Released from military service in 1938, Jacques Hélian began performing and recording under his own name when the Sec...