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I was born in 1962 in France as the third and last child of a couple of schoolteachers. I lived my childhood in the small village of Ry in Normandy that was a great source of inspiration for Gustave Flaubert when writing his novel "Madame Bovary". Showing early interest for music, I started to play the recorder and learn about music theory at the age of 4. At the age of 7, I joined the municipal marching band to play the cornet. When I was 11, I started to play the piano after my grandmother offered me a piano, giving me suddenly a field for creativity. As a high school boarder at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen, I started to play the guitar, while I was missing the ability to practice on piano.

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Later, being student at the french Compiègne UTC engineering school where I was given the opportunity to meet great musicians, the desire to create my own music started to grow.  I took some course to learn about musical writing. While doing a 6-month student internship at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, I played E flat double bass tuba in the Chalmers student orchestra. Back in Compiègne UTC after that, I started to learn and practice the trombone and the sousaphone.

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After school graduation in 1985, I settled in the Paris area where I first joined the newly created Argenteuil Big Band as trombonist. I later joined the more established Aubervilliers Big Band. After moving to Paris in 1989, I joined the newly created "Big Band du XVème" where I could play with amateurs and professionals under the direction of Ramon de Herrera, and later on, of Gérard Curbillon.

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After moving to the United States in 1995 for a professional assignment, I stopped playing in bands and had a life more dedicated to the family that was being built with my amazing wife and my two lovely children, while continuing playing the piano as a hobby. Back in France in the Paris area in 1999, music was still a hobby until 2010 when I was offered a Yamaha Clavinova CVP-501 by my family. That instrument is so inspirational that I quickly started to make songs with it, resurrecting the desire to create my own music.

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After a professional burn-out during the COVID-19 confinements, I decided to quit my job in the energy sector business which brought me nothing but hassle and never any rewards. The family decided to move to the beautiful city of Nantes in September 2021 where I enrolled for a year in the CFPM music school to understand all the mysteries of music creation and production. I now feel I am able to express all my creative potential and leave a significant trace, in phase with myself, of my passage on this earth.

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