Raël: The Alien Prophet
originally aired on Netflix
Claude Vorilhon was born in Vichy, Allier, France, in 1946. He was raised in Ambert in the home of his maternal grandmother, who was atheist. At age 15, he ran away from boarding school and hitchhiked to Paris, where he played music on the streets and in cafés and cabarets. He became a rising teen pop star and released six singles, including a minor hit song, "Le miel et la cannelle" Raël, then known as Claude Celler, was a sports-car journalist and test driver for his magazine, Autopop.