Francis has been playing music since he was 5 years old. He started in classical way learning to play the piano. At the conservatory, he studied harmony, counterpoint, the fugue and orchestral leading. He won first prize in piano and moved onto Paris where he become a salesman, working in a music strore which by chance imported synthetizers, at a time when nobody had sold such before. He become interested in those electronic instruments. In corporation with Korg