Christophe (pronounced Kris-toff) Chuvan is 24 and resides in the exotic little town of Sydney, Australia (well, little is relative). Nope, he's not tall, blonde, handsome and he doesn't surf either but hey, nobody's perfect. Born in New Caledonia, a small French territory off the eastern coast of Australia, Christophe grew up in that little tropical paradise surrounded by relatives who all played guitar and were all Beatlemaniacs. Saying that he suffered some trauma from the experience is an understatement, since the Fab Four constituted his self-imposed musical regimen until the age of 16! Fortunately, running out of Beatles songs to learn on the guitar triggered the urge to actually go and listen to something else once in a while.

Eventually, Chris was given the choice between doing a degree in France, where it snows, it stinks and it's polluted, or in Queensland, Australia, where you could see the waves crashing on the beach from the campus' high grounds. From his own account, he should have picked the first option ("I might have got around to do some study then").

He likes to think of himself as a classic rock'n roller evolved into something a bit more "metallic": he came to Pantera and Metallica by way of Led Zep, Deep Purple and Aerosmith, to which he got by way of the Stones and the Beatles. As for what he does, he claims to be a software developer/consultant although the amount of time he spends writing insanely long posts on various newsgroups and mailing lists doesn't seem to leave him much time to do anything else, especially when that "anything" can classify as "work".