Having played around on a variety of instruments (bass, drums, guitar and voice) in a variety of performance situations (choirs, duets and garage bands) throughout my teens, I transplanted my appetite for musical knowledge from Montreal to Minneapolis to study guitar at Music Tech. After graduation, I moved back to the more familiar grounds of the Eastern Townships in Quebec, and settled right away into any jam, session, or sideman gig I could find in and around Sherbrooke.

A move to the "greener" pastures of British Columbia a year later yeilded only the notion that a wider
understanding of the music industry in general was required if there was to be anything on my table other than mustard sandwiches in the foreseeable future. That in mind, I flew back to Montreal, attained a certificate in music production and opened a studio that recorded various independant montreal acts, producing all manner of recordings.