Minimum Vital is a French progressive rock band founded in 1982 by the brothers Thierry and Jean Luc Payssan from Bègles near Bordeaux.

In 1980, the 16 years old brothers Thierry and Jean Luc Payssan made their first amateur recordings of pop songs from the 1960s under the band name Rocking Chair.

[2] In 1988, Minimum Vital released the LP Les Saisons Marines on Musea Records founded by Bernard Gueffier and Francis Grosse.

In 1998, Thierry and Jean Luc Payssan started the side project Vital Duo and released the album Ex Tempore in 2001.

In 2005, Jean Luc Payssan released his solo album Pierrots & Arlequins,[3] and the two brothers and Eric Rebeyrol continued Minimum Vital without a drummer as a trio.

Thierry is an architect, Jean Luc Payssan is a librarian and Eric Rebeyrol works as a system administrator at a school.