At the age of 9, little Jean-Marc would spend idyllic weekends with his grandparents near Montpellier, about an hour’s drive from his sunny native Avignon, where he would gaze in wonderment at his brother and cousins as they played away on their instruments, and jump behind the drums to reap havoc and mayhem whenever his cousin Philippe wasn’t looking. So on his 11th birthday, after constantly nagging his parents for a drumkit…he was given piano lessons! 3 years later, with an A Level in begging his parents and a few Francs erratically saved up, he got a shiny blue drumkit, and so began his obsession, spending every available second taking lessons at various music schools and  “Conservatoires” in Avignon and Lyon, and making as much noise as possible with his first band MCVS.

In 1987 Jean-Marc co-formed French pop band Kafkha and spent the next few years recording and touring extensively, performing at the “Eurockeennes de Belfort”, France’s answer to the Glastonbury festival, in 1990, alongside the likes of The Pixies, INXS, Fishbone and James Brown among many others, and releasing their album “Les Chants Metalliques” in 1991.

By 1995, London was well and truly calling and JM packed his bags and left everything behind to find fame and fortune in the big city, hooking up with two musicians called Steve Dourdil and Kev Howlett who were starting a new band called Blooming Cellar. He spent the next couple of years learning the guitar as well as writing and recording new tracks with the band in their cellar in Morning Lane, East London. In 1998, despite critical acclaim and support from Radio One’s Steve Lamacq together with the Band Register’s Pete Whitehead, the band was to disintegrate, and JM eventually found himself drumming for female-fronted Saturn, with Steve on guitar, recording demos with the likes of Simon Boswell (producer - Blur, Leftfield, Dolly Parton, and soundtracks to Shallow Grave, Phenomena…) and Robert Miles.

Leaving Saturn in 2003 to concentrate on his own projects, JM has gone on to record music for high-octane animation series Tyrannica VSI, produced by Spider Eye Ltd (BBC’s Lampies, A Small Miracle) together with scriptwriter Nick Whitby (C4’s The Sean Hughes Show, Smack The Pony), SKY TV’s documentary series “The Amazing Adventures of a Nobody”, etc… and start up his own new band, Morning Lane. Now with a complete line-up, he is working on developing and honing the band’s sound so he can take his songs out to the masses.