Patrick James Sacré was born on January 8, 1984 in the city of Rhenen, the Netherlands. He started drumming at the age of 12, starting out with covering Phil Collins, David Bowie and the Police. Heavily influenced by all sorts of musical genres like jazz, funk, hiphop but most of all rock/metal music and drummers like Kenny Aronoff, Mike Portnoy, Dave Weckl, Randy Black and Paul Bostaph, Aquiles Priester and Gene Hoglan.