Gilles Valiquette

Gilles Valiquette is a author, Compositeur and Chanteur inhabitant of Quebec born in 1952 with Montreal, Quebec. He is also guitarist, arranger, realizer and producer.

Biography

He is guitarist, flutist, singer and type-setter of the group Someone of 1967 to 1970. He accompanies thereafter, with the guitar, the duet Liette and François . He also sings in the coffees with Richard Séguin and his sister, Marie-Claire Séguin, which forms the duet at the time Séguin. He becomes the guitarist of Jacques Michel, which encourages to undertake a career in solo.

He launches a first acoustic album to the autumn 1972, which contains songs who will be taken again by other artists. Its second album, with savor clearly more Rock'n'roll, appears at the end of 1973 and success with to him I bring am cool and the Bed of roses .

It then ceases accompanying Jacques Michel and carries out some rounds with Quebec, including one with Veronique Sanson with which it also occurs in California. It holds the high-speed motorboat of a spectacle of the changing presented to Place of Arts of Montreal in 1974, year when it represents Quebec with Festival of Spa in Belgium.

Until 1979, Gilles maintains his popularity with songs evoking it daily newspaper montréalais. Impassioned by the technique, it is familiarized with the most recent synthetizers and assembles a spectacle where it controls several instruments. It carries out rounds in Europe (1977), in Louisiana and in Ontario (of 1978 to 1979).

In 1980, it holds the role of the reader of news in the first version Québécois of Starmania. The following year, it takes part, like Acteur and Musician, with the musical comedy I collect my p' tits worse I leave in round adapted by Denise Filiatrault. One owes him finally the realization of several albums for Plume Latraverse, Daniel Lavoie, Richard Séguin, Paul Piché, Nicole Martin, Pierre Bertrand, Renee Claude, Pauline Lapointe and regretted the Gilles Rivard.

Gilles Valiquette transmitted his passion of the music to his children. Moreover, his/her Louis son, plays at present in the groups The Sainte Catherines and Yesterday' S Ring

Discography

External bonds

  • Biography and discography

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