Garou will perform on the stage of the Meydene cultural center on M avenue in Marrakech, on October 29, 2022. The Quebec crooner meets his Moroccan fans under the sun of Marrakech.
Pierre Garand, dit Garou, born on June 26, 1972 in Sherbrooke (Canada), he began his career in France playing the character of Quasimodo in the musical Notre Dame of Paris in 1998.
With the song Beautifulhe won an award at the World Music Awards and at the Victoires de la Musique, which strengthened his stardom.
From the beginnings to Notre Dame of Paris
After studying at the Séminaire de Sherbrooke, she began her career singing blues and jazz at the bar. Le Liquor Store to Magog. He started a group The Untouchablesand was spotted by Luc Plamondon, auditioned by Plamondon and Richard Cocciante, during a show in 1997, then hired to play Quasimodo in the musical Notre Dame of Paris which makes it known to the general public.
With the song Beautifulhe won an award at the World Music Awards and at the Victoires de la Musique, which strengthened his stardom.
Alone
In 2000 he began a solo career with the album Alone, whose single of the same name remained number 1 in the best singles of France for 11 weeks. Start a tour of March 2001 to September 2002. Garou sings from 5 to 11 October 2001 at the Zenith in Paris; then on 19, 20 and March 21 et April 12, 2002 at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in front of almost 11,000 spectators every evening. His first albums are produced by René Angélil.
In 2001, he performed a duet with Canadian singer Celine Dion entitled Leeward. At the 2002 NRJ Music Awards, Garou won three awards in the categories “Musical Internet Site”, “Group / Duo / Francophone Troupe” for the song duo Leeward with Celine Dion and “French-speaking male artist”.
The live DVD was released in the summer of 2002. The live CD was released November 6, 2001 with The world is made of stone as an excerpt.
Return
In November 2003released her second album titled Returnincluding the single Go back (where are you hiding?). He joined the jury for the Miss France 2004 elections, which took place on December 13, 2003 in Deauville. In 2004 she sang in a duet with Michel Sardou The river of our childhoodwhich is in his album Return. Then record the duet You are like that with singer Marilou, a title that ranks tenth of the Top.
Garou
Then inside June 2006released her third album, titled Garou. The first single from this self-titled album, Injustice is written and composed by Pascal Obispo.
The album contains the song What time, written by the lyricist Sandrine Roy to music by composer Sylvain Michel. Without being a concept album, the theme of time is present in some titles and in the design of the booklet. The album contains twelve tracks to represent the twelve hours of a clock. In 2005, Garou was the first guest of fan school Quebec version.
Piece of my soul and TV movies Love back and forth
The singer has already made several tours in Canada, Poland, Russia, Lebanon, France, Belgium and Switzerland. the May 6, 2008launched her fourth career album and first English album, titled Piece of my soul.
Garou in 2006, during an autograph session in Paris (France).
This album is the result of several months of acoustic sessions in different countries (Sweden, United States, Canada). He collaborates with Rob Thomas (Matchbox 20 leader), Swedish directors Kristian Lundin and Andreas Carlsson (Backstreet Boys, Westlife, N’sync), Guy Chambers (Robbie Williams), among others. Most of the 13 tracks it contains were produced by Peer Astrom.
At the same time, Garou shot the film for TV in 2008 Love back and forthdirected by Eric Civanyan.
Gentleman thief
The December 4, 2009released a cover album, Gentleman thief. It sells 5 million records.
This album, produced by Philippe Paradis, revisits songs from the English heritage (New Year’s, I love Paris) is French (Gentleman thief, Chic underwear, It is like this). Good Gentleman thief is only 35th in sales at the moment, Garou goes on tour in 2010 at Olympia then throughout France for his Gentleman’s ride.
Complete version
Goes out November 29, 2010 son 6And titled studio album Complete version whose extracts are: I needed to be there, Complete version, I will stay the same, If you want me to stop loving you, For you, Best regards, I still love him, good hope, Update, A new world, Passengers that we are, You are here et The scene. She supervised the production, played several instruments and even participated in the writing of this new record.
Garou creates his own production, Wolfgang Entertainment Internationalbetter known as Wolfgang. It is therefore no longer produced by René Angélil and now produces his albums. It only produces its partner Lorie in Canada.
In 2010 a perfume called “Come2Me” was released on the market, as well as various derivative beauty products (shower gels) in the image of the singer Garou. The fragrance is created by the perfumer Garraud, Cosensi Beauty International group.
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