"...since I was a kid I was like a cat on hot rocks. I danced, played music and sang...
I was greatly bent to the variety theatre... and then I loved to make people laugh... "

Grock was born in Reconvilier - Bernese Canton - on the 10th of January 1880. From his father, a watchmaker and a musician and acrobat in his spare time, he learned the basics of his art. Still a young boy he showed his artistic vocation, putting on with his sister Jeanne a variety show presented in hotels and public theaters. Very soon he joined a caravan of gypsies, where he familiarised with every kind of musical instruments (he played skillfully fourteen of them, among which a very small violin) and with every specialty of the circus art.
He made his debut in the Fiame Wetzel circus in 1894 and from 1906 to 1913 he worked with the clown Antonet getting everywhere the favor of the public. In 1930 he settles in Imperia with his Italian wife Ines Ospiri. In 1951 he creates his own mobile circus and works in all European cities. On the 31st of October 1954 in Hamburg he ends his circus career with a show in front of about sixty special envoys from all the main countries of the world. Giving up his circus and musical shows, he retired in his villa in Imperia limiting his public appearances to some television shows in 1956.
He died in Imperia on July the 14t 1959.