CHOISY-LE-ROI
Producer and guitar player . Philippe took up the guitar at 13 and decided to become a musician. At 16, he was giving his first rock concerts around his home town of Marseille with the rock-band Stormbringer’s band. At 20, he was offered his first professional contract at the Sergeant Peppers club for four months, where he played Beatles songs with a band. At 21, he went to Boston to take a six-month course at Berklee College of Music. When he returned to France he worked for two years as a guitarist and then moved to Los Angeles to take classes at the Musician Institute, where he played alongside prominent musicians such as Joe Diorio, Joe Pass or Scott Henderson. When he returned to France, he carried on working as a musician and hung around with the Brazilian and African crowd. He enrolled for jazz classes at the Conservatory,and came out top of the class in 1992. In 1994, he moved to Paris and started recording a solo album (which was launched by Night & Day in 1996) and was faced with Parisian musicians. He made new contacts in this musical circle and started playing with his group in clubs and also with West Indian and African musicians. He wrote educational articles for the guitar magazine Guitar & Bass. He contributed to the Music Academy International and was in charge of the world music program. He played with : Coco Mbassi, Henry Dickongué, Roberto Chavez, Zeluis Nascimento, Raul Paz, Jerho, Manu Dibango, Remy Chaudagne, André Charlier, Davy Honnet, Julio Rakoto, Pierre Acourt, Noel Ekwabi, Maurice Manancourt, Fabrice Ach, Phil.Gonand, Jeff Ludovicus and many other great musicians. He produced MasaoTwins album, Henri Dikongué’s album, Coco Mbassi’s first album, Wa-Zimba, Bismak, Nina Valentin, Angela May and lots of music for Commercials Videos, TvMovies, commercial radio spot . and carried out various fusion and pop music projects. He still prefers composing and producing, which initially drove him into the music field, and this preliminary work is materialized on stage.
Mes compétences :
Arrangeur
Réalisation Musicale
Guitariste
Directeur artistique
coaching Musical
Sound design
Programmeur
Musique
Musicien
