At the age of fourteen, he studied music with a private teacher, then with Philippe Renault at the Marseille Conservatory where he won the gold medal in the jazz class.
Winner of the Jazz Futur 90 contest sponsored by Dee Dee Bridgewater and soloist prize at the tremplin de la Défense 97, he imposed himself through festivals (Marciac, Calvi, Antibes, Montreux…). ), jam sessions and meetings (Johnny Griffin, Wynton Marsalis, Jon and Michèle Hendricks, Steve Grossman, Daniel Humair, Emmanuel Bex, Laurent de Wilde, the Belmondo, Jean Loup Longnon, Eric Le Lann, etc…), as one of the most lively improvisers on the European scene.
Most often on tenor, he performs in the 2000s surrounded by his „Volunteered Slaves“ (a nod to Roland Kirk) of varying dimensions and personalities, without giving up his bohemian appetites.
Although he doesn’t deny the Coltranian legacy, he imposes himself on the tenor as an heir to the hard bop blowers, which he extends and updates with an ever cantabile verve of bristling, tears and paroxysms that owe as much to Free as to the saxes of rhythm and blues. - Philippe Carles, in the "New Dictionary of Jazz"
