Claude Challe & Friends – Je Nous Aime

Catalogue #: 3085052
Label: Chal’O Music
Year of Release: 2003

Track 10 (disc two), “Amma”, features on the James Asher album “Drums on Fire“.

Claude Challe & Friends – Je Nous Aime. In 1963 Claude Challe opened the first salon in Paris which fused hairdressing and music. He was dubbed “The man with the golden scissors”. In 1971 he opened his first boutique selling jeans and luxury second-hand clothes, followed quickly by his first club, Le Priv. In 1979 he launched Le Centre Ville, his first high-tech restaurant, a project conceived with designer Starck. In 1985 he founded the famous club Les Bains with Hubert Boukobza. In 1992 he opened a new club, El Divino, in Ibiza. Then, in 1993, in the Parisian Radio Nova, he created Magic, a new age music program which was the first of its kind. In 1996 he started his DJ career with Buddha Bar, released on the famous label ChallOMusic, followed by a string of successful compilations such as Les Bains Douches, Buddha Bar 1 & 2 and Nirvana Lounge. In 2003 he released his first album, “Je Nous Aime”.