Michel was born the youngest child in a family of five from Psychotherapist parents in Le Bourgneuf-la-Forêt, France.

After a (normal) childhood, he used his classical music foundations to learn to play the guitar and consequently dropped out of school to pursue a career as a musician for hire and freelance sound engineer. Fifteen years in the music business taught him numerous lessons about music and life.

He moved to Jacksonville, Florida in 1997 and there he held various positions from a kennel attendant to a psychiatric emergency security guard, and an animal control officer. During the eight years spent in Florida, Michel was heavily involved in the house music scene

He was consuming lots of good music and lots of drugs which doesn’t mean making good music is contingent upon taking drugs.

“Drugs of any kind don’t make geniuses. The talent exists in and for itself, the use of any substance (including alcohol), is a behavior that doesn’t create genius, but allows some people to balance their brain chemistry.”

MG – Love wins!

Michel moved to Asheville, North Carolina in 2005 and has lived in the area ever since. During Covid Michel did some internal work, and started making objects using the found objects, mostly plastic, dumped in a private pit located on the property where he lives as well as his own household plastic trash.

Michel is a fervent advocate for recoveries of substance use and/or mental illness. He is in long term recovery for both substance use disorder and mental diagnosis. Michel also works as Peer Support Specialist in outreach projects tailored to the unhoused persons.

Everyone has a story, we are all people, those two facts are the backbones of his outreach as well as his art production. Michel continues to do music work, mostly studio work, but he also does live music performances.