Mano Solo

Born to an ecological activist mother (Isabelle Monin) and a left-wing cartoonist father (Cabu), French singer/songwriter Mano Solo is also a maverick artist, taking control away from the big record companies and overseeing every aspect of his music and its packaging himself. He began in the punk group Les Chihuahuas when he was 17, but considered painting as a vocation once he left his teens. He painted under the name Boredom in honor of an early Buzzcocks song. In his late twenties he turned to music again, and by the age of 30 had his debut album when La Marmaille Nue was r...