Five Millenia Later - Eric Serra

Eric Serra Eric Serra was born on September 9th, 1959 near Paris in France. His mother died when he was only 7 years old. His father, Claude Serra was a well-know songwriter in France in late 50s and 60s. Serra began to learn play the guitar at 11 years old and became a professional musician for Mory Kanté, Didier Lockwood and Michel Murty at 15 years old.

In the beginning of the 80s Serra met Luc Besson who asked him to compose the score for his first short film titled L'Avant dernier (1981) and later his first feature film Le Dernier combat (1983). As he continues to contribute to every Besson film (Subway, Le Grand bleu, Nikita, Atlantis and Léon), Serra played bass guitar for French singer Jacques Higelinin studio and on stage from 1980 to 1988.

By the end of the 90s, Serra had opportunity to score James Bond's come back GoldenEye (1995) as well as Besson's The Fifth Element (1997) and The Messenger (1999). Also, in 1998, Serra finally released his first solo album titled "RXRA" both in English and French.

Since 2000, Serra worked on French films L'Art (délicat) de la séduction (2000), Wasabi (2001), Décalage horaire (2003). He also contributed to several Hollywood productions like John McTiernan's remake of Rollerball (2002) and Bulletproof Monk (2003).

His most recent work is for a western called Bandidas (2006). Serra is currently working on the next Besson's installment titled Arthur And The Minimoys.

Five Millenia Later - Eric Serra

Five Millenia Later - Eric Serra

Five Millenia Later(Full Version) - Eric Serra

 

 

Live Web Conference with Eric Serra - 21th Dec

by EuroVoice 2010

 

 

 

Le Cinquième élément, Canada (French title) / France
Das Fünfte Element, Austria / Germany
Peti element Serbia / Slovenia
O Quinto Elemento, Brazil / Portugal (alternative spelling)
Az Ötödik elem, Hungary
5º Elemento, O Portugal
5. güç, Turkey (Turkish title)
Det Femte element, Denmark
Det Femte elementet, Sweden
To Pempto stoiheio, Greece
Piaty element, Poland
Puuttuva tekijä, Finland
El Quinto elemento, Spain
Il Quinto elemento, Italy
The 5th Element USA (alternative spelling)
Het Vijfde element, Belgium (cable TV title) (Flemish title)