Like model Grace Jones, model Patrick Juvet easily stepped into his dancing shoes and began his career as a disco recording act. Born August 21, 1950 in Montreux, Switzerland he began studying the piano at age 7 and loved the Beatles.
Moving to Paris in 1968 when he was 18, penniless when a friend sent him to Germany to begin a modeling career and after two years, he returned to Paris where he met producer Eddie Barclay. He began to collaborate with electronic artist Jean Michel Jarre and in 1977 released his biggest hit "Ou Sont Les Femmes" sung in french. The title translates in to "Where Are The Women", but the english version changed it to the more mournful "Where Is My Woman" one time the translation did not help. Chasing women is a national pastime in France, so a song about finding where they hide out was something they could relate to. Heartbreak had nothing to do with the sexy electronic beats that Jarre had created for Juvet.
Juvet went on to record with the producers of the Village People, Henri Belolo and Jacques Morali with "I Love America" and "Got A Feeling". "Où Sont Les Femmes" was re-recorded in English in 1978 on Casablanca but failed to gain an audience.
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