Originally from the Segrià district in the province of Lleida at the southern end of Catalonia, he began his musical life with piano and theory-of-music classes at the age of 7, since his parents thought some after-school activity would be good for him. Though leaning towards the sciences in his outlook and in his work, he has always sought to keep the right side of his brain fit with music, playing electric contraptions with strings in rock and heavy-metal groups in his noisy teens before growing into folk music. He took up the flute around 10 years ago after hearing some Jethro Tull records a friend had lent him (and he's still in an acoustic-rock duo with that friend). Around then he formed the folk-rock group l'Herba d'Hamelí with some friends at university, though he no longer plays with them: one fine day he decided to wave goodbye to the open-air gigs, unplug his amplifiers and take the enchanted path of the uillean pipe and assorted flutes in Irish music sessions, plus a hurdy-gurdy for those times when he feels like something else entirely.