From bac-3 to school director, including a few years as an artist...
Stéphane RIVA left conventional schooling at an early age to train at the Ateliers Chanson de Paris. His professional career then began in the artistic field. From 1987 to 1996, he developed a short career as an author-composer-performer and actor-singer. After a few activities in other professional sectors, he joined the management team of Manufacture Chanson at the end of the 90s and has been running the company, which became a SCOP in 2013, for 23 years. Committed to the professional music and live performance sector, he is also involved in and participates in the governance of various associations, federations and unions in the industry (SMA, FNEIJMA, RIF, MAP, FOFC...).