Take 2 brothers from their early age; Add a couple of friends, all addicted to energetic music; And mix them all together in the boiling caldron of the seventies... This is The MANSIS!
From their early teenage years Michel and Gérard Mansis both rock music addicts, were devoured by an urge to write and play their own music. Living in the French Haute-Savoie region, just across the border from Geneva – Switzerland, they founded several bands, which earned them their first stripes.
After a couple of years spent in the basement writing and rehearsing songs, the two brothers started hitting the stage.
The first contacts with French record companies followed.
The band moved into a Parisian music studio, then to New York at Pete Diorio’s Sound Lab studios, Brooklyn, to record an album.
The brothers also wrote for other US artists, out of which some will be signed by Epic-CBS
After two years spent in New York, Michel and Gérard headed back to the Old Continent, with the strong intention to keep writing and playing the music they like. Soon upon their return, the two brothers met up with Alain Magnenat, an old school friend and Bruno Tancredi, a bass player newly arrived from Geneva...