Maxime Le Forestier emerged as a protest singer in the aftermath of the 1968
student protests in France. Trained in the classical violin as a child, he heard
Georges Brassens and was inspired to take up the guitar as a teenager. He played
in Paris cafés often singing with his sister Catherine.
During his military service in a parachute regiment in 1969, he continued to
make music and released his debut single 'Coeur de Pierre, Face de Lune'. After
his military service he lived in Marseille and then moved to a hippie commune in
San Francisco. Returning to France in 1971 he rele...