Carlos Jean

One day a few years ago I got a call on my cell phone from this guy named Carlos Jean. He wanted to know if I could help him with his English. We arranged to meet the next day and we’ve been in contact off and on ever since. I had no idea who this guy was until I mentioned his name to my son who filled me in on the extensive music career of Mr. Jean.

Working with Carlos gave me the opportunity to take my family to his performances, concerts and film premiers. The year that Jean had a weekly radio program on Maxima FM in Madrid my son, under the name of Zeon, was a regular participant.

The English classes with Carlos were almost as varied as his professional career. The last classes we had were dedicated to writing lyrics to some of the songs of his new CD Mr Miracle, which will be released tomorrow, 24th April.

There’s one “class” that I will never forget. We were working in his recording studio on the lyrics to a song called “Have a Nice Day”. There was one spoken part that corresponded to a radio DJ. At one point he asked me to read this section and then, without any explanation, stuck the microphone in my face and told me to read it again. After recording it twice he turned to me and said he would use it in the song. Frankly I thought he was pulling my leg. That was a year and a half ago.

I had all but forgotten about my 30 second recording session when, a month ago, my daughter came running into my room and turned on the radio. She told me they were playing the new single from Carlos Jean’s new CD. I recognised the music immediately but didn’t realise what it was. Just then we heard the “spoken part” and I turned to her and said, “That’s me!”
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