Francis Darizcuren was born in Bayonne, to a painter mother and a music teacher father.

At 4 years old, first violin under the chin! The repertoire is classical: Mozart, Bach… Very quickly we discover his perfect pitch. Already within the folk orchestra, founded by his father Alfred: Estudiantina bayonnaise sponsored by Luis Mariano, he played the repertoire of Basque and Spanish folklore on the mandolin.

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In the 1950s, he discovered Jazz and Rock and understood that it was this path he would follow. As a reward for winning his 1955 Prize for Violin Excellence, his father gave him a Gibson Super 400 .

In the process, he obtained all his prizes from the Conservatory and joined the orchestra of the Casino de Biarritz.

It was in 1962 that he arrived in Paris in the midst of a musical revolution.

The tours follow one another: Ray Charles, Michel Polnareff, Chuck Berry, Claude François… 15,000 recording sessions for the most fashionable artists of the time: Johnny Hallyday, Serge Gainsbourg… We can also hear him in the Bande Original of over 400 films: Lelouch, Annaud… and during TV shows.

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Francis Darizcuren has always been driven by the desire to pass on his experience through a pedagogy that combines pleasure and efficiency. He devotes himself to writing methods which, to this day, are the benchmark for music professionals and state institutions “ SACEM Prize for Pedagogy”.

For more than 30 years, while continuing to practice, he has devoted himself to this transmission to allow emerging bassists to know the fundamentals of music in order to make them accomplished musicians and renowned and happy bassists.