One of the leading songwriters, composers and performers on the new French scene
of the 2000s, Bruno Nicolino, aka Bénabar, was born in Thiais (Val-de-Marne) on
June 16, 1969. He played the trumpet as a child and moved to the United States
after his baccalauréat, before working in the film industry. The son of a stage
manager, he held the same job and made three short films: Nada Lézard (1991),
Sursum Corda (1992) and José Jeannette (1994), which won an award at the Cognac
Film Festival. A screenwriter for television, he composes and writes songs and
forms a clown duo called Patc...