Francis Covan. Born in 1964 , He learns first piano (5 Y old), after guitar (6 years old), violin and piano accordeon (12 years old). He begins by the traditional music (irish, french and eastern european folk music) but were quickly interest by jazz when he discover Stephan Grappelli and Dgango Reinhardt. (He’ll meet S. Grapp in 1986) . Many kinds of music will be played by Francis and he was invited to play for the “Cirque du Soleil” in 1994 : Alegria show for the American tour. In 1996, he decide to leave in Montreal and build his own recording studio. A first Baby (for CD Baby…) is borned in 2004 : 1+1=11.