Guitarist by trade, ROUGGE first performed in different pop-rock bands before discovering that the piano was in fact to be his instrument. This revelation, which took him to Britain, was without doubt the crucial turning point which made his music sound the way it does today.
His voice and his instrument from then on focused on each other and are never going to stop creating and influencing each other.
The singing lost any other meaning in order to rediscover the simple pleasure of instrumental improvisations. No texts, sentences nor words. From then on only the emotion produced by the raw sound mattered.
The piano part is destructurised, it looks for the murmur, the breath, the cry which this deeply moving voice suggests.
From this duality, this particular innovative, supernatural and captivating music was born. Is it introversion of classical music? Or physical expressiveness more rock or even contemporary? Everyone needs to make up their own mind.
His first album "Fragments" recorded and mixed both in France and England certainly carries his own identity, one which should be discovered.Short Version:
With his high-pitched voice free from words but not of sense, supported only by an atmospheric piano, ROUGGE lays the foundation for an original, enchanting and promising artistic identity.