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Influenced by the music of Manuel Kerjean, Marchand moved to his family"s homeland and studied traditional music and the Breton language.
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Although born in Paris, his family was of Breton origin, hailing from Quelneuc, Brittany. He became deeply involved with traditional Breton singing, including the gwerz, a traditional lament. In the 1980s he helped form a traditional music group called Gwerz which released three albums.
In the 1980s Marchand also began to collaborate with oudist Thierry Robin, producing a fusion of Celtic and Arabic motifs influenced by jazz.
