{"id":26189,"date":"2022-04-21T18:20:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T16:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/la-face-cachee-de-joel-grammson\/"},"modified":"2023-10-08T14:42:42","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T12:42:42","slug":"the-hidden-face-of-columnist-joel-grammson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/the-hidden-face-of-columnist-joel-grammson\/","title":{"rendered":"The hidden face of columnist Jo\u00ebl Grammson"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_small\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-12 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p>Music drove him to journalism: Jo\u00ebl Grammson knew he would become a singer, and he gave himself the means to do so. Since he didn&#8217;t know anyone in showbiz, and since he lived at the time a long way from the French-speaking capital through which every career had to be built, he started interviewing artists, so he might learn from them. With his eyes wide open, his microphone outstretched, and a wealth of unfailing friendships in the music business, he finally &#8220;stayed&#8221; a journalist. Surprisingly, one of his first hits, &#8220;<em>Entre Maman et Toi<\/em>&#8221; (Carrere, France), ranked in the top 3 of the Radio Plus Hit Parade (<a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ivan_Fr\u00e9sard\">Ivan Fr\u00e9sard<\/a>&#8216;s broadcast) for 14 weeks. This hit opened up for him prestigious magazine columns as a celebrity specialist. Author of some 400 songs and several albums, he is still writing, for others and for himself&#8230; He is co-producer of hip-hop with Ivorian star artist <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nash_(rappeuse)\">Nash<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/cotedivoire\/communiqu\u00e9s-de-presse\/la-rappeuse-nash-nomm\u00e9e-ambassadrice-nationale-unicef\">Unesco ambassador<\/a>) and works regularly with producer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quintessence-portraits.fr\/peter-rebeiz-monsieur-caviar\">PGR<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.balikstudio.ch\">Balik Farm Studio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"wpb_text_column\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Joel Grammson\" width=\"640\" height=\"650\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/widget_code\/html_widget\/artist_798321?widget_id=55&#038;pwc&#091;included_songs&#093;=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_small\"><div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\"><div class=\"g-cols vc_row via_flex valign_top type_default stacking_default\"><div class=\"vc_col-sm-6 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"w-btn-wrapper align_none\"><a class=\"w-btn us-btn-style_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/joelgrammson?pwc[branded]=1\"><span class=\"w-btn-label\">Gramms&#8217;on Music<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vc_col-sm-6 wpb_column vc_column_container\"><div class=\"vc_column-inner\"><div class=\"wpb_wrapper\"><div class=\"w-btn-wrapper align_none\"><a class=\"w-btn us-btn-style_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLvJ0U9ssJwdeKrQVBvFbHrKthIWHnatih\"><span class=\"w-btn-label\">Gramms&#8217;on YouTube<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Music drove him to journalism: Jo\u00ebl Grammson knew he would become a singer, and he gave himself the means to do so. 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Founded in 2005, his press agency 1876 News (formerly T\u00e0G Press +41T) contributes to some twenty media through a network of around ten journalists or experts. These include Journal Suisse d'Horlogerie (2008-2014), Heure Suisse\/Schweiz and Ann\u00e9e Horlog\u00e8re, F\/D\/E (2011-2014), Watchonista.com (2013-2019). In 2019, he founded and chaired \"JSH Archives &amp; Patrimoine\" to relaunch the Swiss watchmaking journal JSH. Then in 2021, he built on his very first editorial venture, the \"bloghorloger.ch\" established on the web in 2003, to come back online with the Swiss Watch Passport\u00ae (by JSH\u00ae). Jo\u00ebl A. Grandjean is a member of the SSC, the Swiss Society of Chronometry, and of the jury of the Prix Ga\u00efa, aka the \"Nobel of watchmaking\" awarded since 1992 by the MIH, Le Mus\u00e9e International de l'Horlogerie in La Chaux-de-Fonds","sameAs":["https:\/\/grandjean.watch","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/joel.grandjean","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/grandjean.grammson\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/joel-a-grandjean-\u270d-5524357\/","https:\/\/x.com\/https:\/\/x.com\/tagpress","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@joela.grandjeanprowatchpre906"],"url":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/author\/joel\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swiss-watch-passport.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}