Archibald Ligonniere

Archibald Ligonnière was born on September 19th 1992. Already in the summer of 1993, his passion for drumming was revealed. As he grew up, he inherited his family’s drum set, and standing upright and barely reaching the Hi-Hat, he started to sing and play drums at the same time. This went on until he started playing with his father who played keyboards, in 1997. It’s in 2004, at the age of 12, that he went for the first time in the famous Parisian Jazz Club « Le Baiser Salé ». He met Eric Serra (GoldenEye, The Big Blue). Nowadays he is one of the regular « members » of this place!

In September 2006, Archibald moved to Paris. It’s there that he met and played with musicians like Hadrien Féraud (John McLaughlin, Chick Corea), Damien Schmitt (Alain Caron), Eric Serra, Gildas Boclé (Gary Burton, Michael Brecker), Nelson Veras, Jim Grandcamp, Stefan Filey, Michael League (Snarky Puppy)...

In 2010, he incorporates the band of Gildas & Jean-Baptiste Boclé « Keltic Tales », with this band, they recorded at ONE SHOT NOT, a TV show introduced by Manu Katché on Arte. In 2011, he incorporates a blues band calls Big Dez, who he’s been playing with in lot of clubs & festivals in France, Spain and Holland.

In 2014, during trips in L.A. Archibald met & played with great musicians including Scott Kinsey, Dave Siegel, Gary Novak...