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Jean-Marc Lederman

keyboard player, music producer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ6169546
Source-derived summary

Jean-Marc Lederman is a Belgian keyboard player and producer. He has worked with bands such as Fad Gadget, The The, Gene Loves Jezebel, The Weathermen, Belgian rock band Streets, and Front 242, and with other artists including Julianne Regan, Jacques Duvall and Alain Bashung.

His main projects were The Weathermen, Kid Montana, Jules et Jim with Julianne Regan, Ghost & Writer with Frank Spinath of Seabound, Man-Dello (a solo electronica project), and cover version project La Femme Verte. He composes music for movies and videogames.

Jean-Marc Lederman also developed the Jean-Marc Lederman Experience where vocalists collaborates on themed albums.

He developed a musical iPhone app with Karl Bartos (ex-Kraftwerk) and Japanese multimedia artist Masayuki Akamatsu.

Recently, he has collaborated with Emileigh Rohn from Detroit-based band Chiasm under the name Rohn-Lederman

In 2021, Jean-Marc Lederman published a book called 'The Mysterious Manuscript From Gabriel Garcia Marquez".

Most of Lederman's record covers are done by Erica Hinyot, a Belgian plastician.

Selected discography

Jean-Marc Lederman

The Space Between Worlds (2017)

"Ode A La pluie" Music For An Exhibition About Rain (with Erica Hinyot paintings and poem) (2018)

"The Helpless Voyage Of The Titanic" [Instrumental/Soundtrack] (2020)

"Music For Dinosaurs" (2020)

"The Bad-Tempered Synthesizer" (2021) (with notes by Daniel Miller)

Night Music For Seahorses And Manatees (2022)

Soul Music For Zombies (2023)

Rohn-Lederman

Venus Chariot (2021)

Apollo Chariot (2022)

RAGE!

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Jean-Marc Lederman” is keyboard player, music producer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Jean-Marc, Lederman and keyboard, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2017, 2018, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Jean-Marc, Lederman and keyboard is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from Jean-Marc Lederman” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.