Cristophe Miossec was born to a working-class family in Brest, France, in 1964. In his early teens, he became a devout rock music fan, assembling a group of his own with whom he wrote and performed throughout his late teen years. When Miossec went to university, he turned his attentions away from music completely, studying history while balancing a journalism career. After a short time he tired of formal study and moved to Paris, where he held a series of unrelated jobs. Frustrated with the direction of his career, Miossec took up music again, little by little, eventually asse...