He was born in Casablanca in 1947 (76 years old) - father a soldier in the French army - and raised in Paris. The family was very musician and in Morocco, his grandmother, a pianist, accompanied silent films in cinemas and certain French artists on tour in North Africa (V. Sardou). Very young, he discovers the jazz music with albums by Art Blakeys Jazz Messengers, Bobby Timmons, Oscar Peterson, Miles Davis then the greatest Ray Charles ! At the age of 14, his grandmother offers him his first pia...