Daniel Lavoie

Biography

His/her mother is musician and he learns how to play of the Piano as of his young age. In 1967, it obtains a price with the emission Jeunesse obliges of Radio-Canada, which draws the attention of the entertainment world.

Thereafter, he plays and sings in two different musical groups, as well in English as in French, but its career takes off after a round on the Québécois ground in 1970. A few years later, it is as popular in Canada as in France, where it presents its spectacle to the Olympia of Paris and the theater Bobino. Its album blue Nirvana (1979) is sold well even in Germany.

In 1995, having given in guarantee the rights of its songs to support the promotion of young talents, it loses them when the company cannot assume its balance in the budget.

In 1998, it holds the high-speed motorboat like Frollo in the imposing musical comedy Notre-Dame de Paris . He also writes music for various films, including the series of animated short films Ludovic .

In 2003, it incarnates Felix Leclerc in a televisual series. Its service as actor is criticized, but its interpretation of thirty songs is accommodated favorably.

Exit on April 16th, 2007 of Doctor Tendresse . Daniel Lavoie took again the feather to deliver 13 remedies. He also collaborates with his accomplices of writing for the texts, Patrice Guirao, Brice Homs, Marie Nimier, Jean Rouaud and Allain Leprest. A tender and funny glance, subtle, intelligent texts. that made of the good, that done to reflect, that made réver… Daniel Lavoie does not have anything any more to prove of his talent of type-setter author and it still surprises us by the accuracy and the poetry of this Doctor tenderness . For those which were arrétés with They like or Notre Dame de Paris , it is really necessary to discover this French-speaking Dylan. To listen attentively, of the small jewels as Z' have candies or the cats wait the door …

Discography

List of the official site

It also should be stressed that Daniel Lavoie writes all the musics of his songs, even if currently it calls upon authors for the words. It also composes for many artists such as Florent Pagny, Roch Voisine, Mireille Mathieu, Lara Fabian, Isabelle Boulay, etc

Spectacles

Daniel Lavoie, with his spectacle human Comedies whose album received enthusiastic and dithyrambic criticisms, occurs since October 2004 in a round both in Quebec and in France. He took part in many festivals, of which the last dated July 30th, 2005 with the French-speaking Beachcombers of Cape-Breton, with an enormous deserved success. He will return to France in November 2005 for a new round through France.

Distinctions

1986 - Medal Jacques-Strainer

the most sold Québécois Albums
GSI Music, the recording company of Daniel Lavoie

External bond

Its official site