From Brittany on his father’s side and Dunkirk on his mother’s, Albert was born in the free zone of Allier, where his parents had fled during the war to escape the hell of Dunkirk. The artist in him came out at 16 when he received his first guitar and paintbrushes. He attended the School of Fine Arts and became a civil engineering draftsman, an advertising designer, a photographer, a singer and a songwriter. For several years he devoted himself to interpreting his musical compositions, but tired by this hectic life, he eventually settled down i…