Peter Peter is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 originating from Quebec City

Quebec City

Quebec , also Québec, Quebec City or Québec City is the capital of the Canadian province of Quebec and is located within the Capitale-Nationale region. It is the second most populous city in Quebec after Montreal, which is about to the southwest...

, Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

 (born c. 1984) and known for his French pop/rock compositions.

Career

He started as a member of an alternative rock band where he played guitar and English vocals at times. After leaving the band, he moved to Montreal

Montreal

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 and resided in the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve

Hochelaga-Maisonneuve

Hochelaga-Maisonneuve is a district of Montreal, Quebec, situated on the eastern half of the island, generally to the south and south-west of the city's Olympic Stadium. A part of the borough of Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, its borders are roughly rue Moreau to the west, rue Sherbrooke to the...

 neighborhood, concentrating on his solo career writing and performing in French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

. He took part as a singer-songwriter in the annual Montreal feature Ma Première Place des Arts for new artists in 2008 and won the competition.

In 2009 he signed with Audiogram

Audiogram (label)

Audiogram is an independent record label founded in Quebec in the 1980s. The label represents performers who have contributed to and have marked Quebec's cultural scene. In the 1990s, Audiogram became home to many of the top local French artists and in 1993 expanded into the English-speaking...

 record label, releasing his eponymous debut album Peter Peter on 8 March 2011 produced by Howard Bilerman. In 2011, he also took part in Les FrancoFolies de Montréal

Les FrancoFolies de Montréal

Les FrancoFolies de Montréal is a large annual music and performance festival held in Downtown Montreal, Quebec, featuring over 1,000 French-language performers from all over the world, as well as attracting over 500,000 visitors....

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Albums

• 2011: Peter Peter
  • Tracklist:

1. "Homa"
2. "Réfractaire"
3. "Tergiverse"
4. "Montréal neige sale"
5. "Rien ne nous rassemble"
6. "Dring dring pow pow"
7. "Laurie"
8. "Porte-bonheur"
9. "Demain, c'est l'heure"
10. "97"
11. "Cesse de pleuvoir"
12. "UHF"

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