Raphaël Elig

Raphael Elig (born Raphael Eligoulachvili in Paris) is a French musician and composer of Georgian origin. Life After classical studies at the École Normale de Musique de Paris and harmony, counterpoint and fugue lessons with Jeannine Richer, Elig followed the film music classes of Laurent Petitgirard. He completed his training by studying electronic music at the CCRMA, (Center For Computer Research In Music & Acoustics) acoustic and musical research centre of the Stanford University in California. His professional career began as a composer, author and performer at EMI Group where he released two records in the early 1990s (J’me Fais du Bien and Les Garçons Aiment les Filles). In parallel he writes music for the theatre (Patrick Timsit, Clémentine Célarié, Sophia Aram, for the TV (Chic, Square Artist on Arte and Cash Investigation, Thalassa on France TV) and also composes advertising music for prestigious brands (Cartier, Vuitton, Air France, etc.). He wrote songs for Gloria Gaynor, Yi Zhou, Sophia Aram In the mid 90’s, he joined the band Res Rocket, with English and American musicians on the Internet. The principle was to play music remotely and use the Internet as a vector of cre