Mathieu Boogaerts was born on November 30, 1970 in Fontenay-sous-Bois, and grew
up in the Paris suburb of Nogent-sur-Marne, where his parents, his mother a
pharmacist and his father an antiques dealer, had settled. From an early age, he
was introduced to music thanks to an organ given to him by his mother. As a
teenager, he discovered the rhythms of reggae and took up music. At the age of
twelve, he began taking drumming lessons, and went on to form his first band,
Made in Cament, where he experimented with various instruments on a self-taught
basis. At sixteen, he met Matthieu C...