Luc Plamondon

Luc Plamondon (March 2nd 1942 with Saint-Raymond-with-Portneuf, Quebec -) is a Parolier Québécois. He is especially known for his participations in the musical comedies Starmania and Notre-Dame de Paris

Biography

Young person, it learns the Piano and undertakes traditional studies with the Petit Seminar of Quebec.

It is by seeing the Musical comedy Hair with Broadway that it has the catch: its vocation is the musical comedy.

In the Years 1970, he becomes the lyric writer many singers and Québécois and European singers, such as Julien Clerc, Nicole Croisille, Francoise Hardy, Johnny Hallyday, Diane Dufresne, Richard Cocciante, Claude Dubois, Nicole Martin, Renee Claude, Emmanuëlle, Robert Charlebois, Pierre Bertrand, Fabienne Thibeault, Nanette Workman, Martine St-Clearly, Diane Such, Ginette Reno, Julie Arel, Donald Lautrec, Petula Clark, Catherine Lara, Monique Leyrac and Marie Denise Furrier. Its first success, in 1970, is the Ways of summer , on a music of André Gagnon and interpreted by the high-speed motorboat of the hour, Steve Fiset.

Starting from 1976, it writes in collaboration with the type-setter Michel Berger, the Opéra-rock Starmania .

In the Years 1980, it Co-writing music of the part Lily Passion with Barbara.

In 1990, the Legend of Jimmy , always written by Plamondon on the music of Shepherd, is assembled to Paris and runs for six months with the Théâtre Mogador, then is taken again in 1991 with Montreal and Quebec. But its success is definitely less than that of Starmania .

In 1991, he writes the compositions Dion sings Plamondon , an album interpreted by Céline Dion.

In September 1998, it puts in scene, on a music of Richard Cocciante, the musical comedy Notre-Dame de Paris of which the first representations take place with the Palais of the Congresses of Paris. This spectacle is a sharp success and will be then played Quebec, then taken again in english language version with London. A few years later a recovery will also be done with the Théâtre Mogador.

In January 2006, by putting in scene new artists, it decides to go up the spectacle in the room where this one was born.

He lives the small town of Montreux in French-speaking Switzerland, where he chairs the Freddie Mercury Live Music Awards .

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