After his musical training he met songwriter Maurice Vidalin, and they wrote many songs for several performers.
Since 1954, they wrote "On en dira" (written with Marc Lanjean) for Juliette Gréco.
The following year, they got 3rd place with "Petit bonhomme", sung by Camillo Felgen.
[1] The many performers of his songs include France Gall ("Christiansen", "Mes premières vraies vacances"), Juliette Greco ("Jusqu'à où, jusqu'à quand" and "Les Mariés"), Françoise Hardy ("Va pas prendre un tambour", "Le Temps des souvenirs") Serge Lama ("Les P'tites Femmes de Pigalle"), Claude Nougaro ("Une petite fille", "Le Jazz et la Java", "Je suis sous.."), Serge Reggiani ("Le Petit Garçon") and Édith Piaf, for whom he wrote "Dans ma rue" (1946).
In 1964 he composed the music for the French version of The Taming of the Shrew, a telefilm that Pierre Badel adapted from Shakespeare's play.