Nico Wayne Toussaint was born in France in 1973. He grows up in a family of artists and musicians and gets his first encounter with the blues at the age of 15, with the record of Muddy Waters and James Cotton Hard Again. Three years later, he has put a name on the kind of blues that he digs the most : Chicago Blues. He picks the harmonica at the age of 17, influenced by his all time mentor James Cotton. At the same time that he enters University, he begins giging and fronting his own band featuring his father on piano. Read more on Last.fm