Alongside other musical projects (most notably Belone Quartet) Benjamin Nerot took on the identity of THE HEALTHY BOY and began writing songs on his own in 2003. The appellation THE HEALTHY BOY is an ironic commentary on the state of Nerot’s health that to him seems all but absent in this period of his life.

In 2005, “A Two Steps Promenade” was released on the label Kythibong. Lo-fi and recorded in urgency (or hastily recorded), this record reveals the influence of the raw folk of the first Palace Brothers records and the post-rock accents of American bands like Gastr del Sol. The album, with its sometimes nervous and sometimes silent guitar alongside a deep, blasé vocal, bears witness to a certain absurdity to life.

In December of 2007, THE HEALTHY BOY recorded his second album entitled “Jusqu’a ce que nous soyons repus”. The new songs recall the nonchalance of Leonard Cohen, the simplicity of Micah P. Hinson, and the heady melodies of Jim O’Rourke.
The formula remains the same; THE HEALTHY BOY uses only his voice and his guitar to depict his memories, his loves, his dreams, and his demons.

From this was born a minimalist music centered on the duality of these two instruments to create a kind of swaddled, cottony, melancholic feeling that capsizes from time into a sea of incorporated/contained anger. Duality sometimes amazingly betrayed on a few songs with arrangements orchestrated and performed by the Zëro members (ex-Bästard).

In September 2009, Benjamin Nerot and his mates, decided to continue their common work adding a new musician to the line-up and recording 4 new songs.
Under the name THE HEALTHY BOY AND THE BADASS MOTHERFUCKERS, "Tonnerre Vendanges" Ep is released in april 2010.