"My collaboration with lasted a year," said Perrey, "during which I was able to meet other great artists and singers such as Yves Montand and Jacques Brel. "L'Âme des poètes" became an international commercial success, and Perrey was asked to accompany Trenet on stage. (At a second session, Perrey played Ondioline on three more Trenet songs the guitarist on two of those later tracks was Django Reinhardt). Trenet was so impressed that he hired Perrey for the recording session for the song "L'Âme des poètes" ("The Soul of Poets"). In late 1950, singer/composer Charles Trenet heard about the Ondioline and requested a demonstration of the instrument by Perrey, who at the time was traveling to promote the new device. After earning substantial commissions on sales made during a trip to Sweden (during which he performed on TV), Perrey quit medical school and devoted his career to electronic music. Jenny was so impressed with Perrey's proficiency, he offered him a job as a salesman and product demonstrator. For six months Perrey practiced playing the Ondioline with his right hand while simultaneously playing piano with his left. After a visit to the inventor's workshop, Perrey was loaned an Ondioline. "Perrey then phoned Jenny himself, saying he liked the sound of the Ondioline but couldn't afford to buy one." Perrey offered to promote the instrument if Jenny would give him one for free. "With the audacity of youth phoned the radio station and requested Georges Jenny's telephone number, which he was duly given," wrote music historian Mark Brend. In 1950, while enrolled in medical school, Perrey heard inventor Georges Jenny playing and promoting his homemade Ondioline on a French radio show. Clarke, and Ray Bradbury, and took occasional work as an accordionist. He was an avid reader of science fiction, in particular the works of Isaac Asimov, Aldous Huxley, Arthur C.
He studied medicine in Paris for four years, and planned to pursue scientific research. Perrey was expelled from the conservatory for violating a prohibition against students performing in public he later graduated from the Lycée d'Amiens. However, the school's director warned the students that they could either "continue playing jazz or continue your studies". He learned to play piano, and studied music at a conservatory for two months, during which he and several classmates formed a jazz band, which performed at the school and at public venues. He was given his first instrument, an accordion, at age 4 on Christmas Eve, 1933. Jean Marcel Leroy was born in Amiens, in the north of France. 1.4 Perrey & Kingsley and the Moog Synthesizer.