Onra (Arnaud Bernard) was born in 1981 in Germany to French parents, although his father has Vietnamese ancestry.

He moved to France at the age of three and shortly after, lived between France and Côte d’Ivoire, where his mother was based for over twenty years.
He discovered a passion for music at the age of ten and started making music at the age of nineteen. In 2000, he moved to Paris to pursue studies and he graduated from business school in 2006 with a degree in Marketing.