Pierre Lapointe is a Canadian

Canada

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 singer. He has won many prizes since his debut, including six Félix in 2005 and at least one in 2006. He is well known for his voice and his obscure, esoteric lyrics, which tend to be melancholic. Another distinctive characteristic of his lyrics is their literary style. Lapointe has created the persona

Persona

A persona, in the word's everyday usage, is a social role or a character played by an actor. The word is derived from Latin, where it originally referred to a theatrical mask. The Latin word probably derived from the Etruscan word "phersu", with the same meaning, and that from the Greek πρόσωπον...

 of an egotistical dandy on stage, but he does this mostly to deflect attention from himself.

Albums

• 2002: Promotional CD (limited release - impossible to find as of August 2006)
• 2004: Pierre Lapointe
  Pierre Lapointe (album)
  - Titres :# Place des Abbesses# Le columbarium# Debout sur ma tête# Étoile étiolée# Octogénaire# Reine Émilie# Vous# Tel un seul homme# Plaisirs dénudés# Paradis des billes# Pointant le nord...
  
  
• 2006: La Forêt des Mal-Aimés
  La Forêt des Mal-Aimés
  La Forêt des Mal-Aimés is a 2006 album by Pierre Lapointe.- Track listing :# Dans la forêt des mal-aimés# Deux par deux rassemblés# Le lion imberbe# 25-1-14-14# Qu'en est-il de la chance# L'endomètre rebelle...
  
  
• 2007: 2x2
• 2007: 25-1-14-14 (Vinyl)
• 2009: Sentiments humains

Lapointe announced his forthcoming album, Sentiments humains, with a music video of Je reviendrai. The first 15,000 copies of the album will also ship with Les Vertiges d'En Haut, a bonus disc. Les Vertiges d'En Haut has also been released on iTunes later and then as a separate album, so it can be bought individually.

• 2011: Pierre Lapointe seul au piano

Videos

• 2004: Le Columbarium
• 2005: Tel un seul homme
• 2006: Deux par deux rassemblés
• 2007: Qu'en est-il de la chance?
• 2009: Je reviendrai
• 2009: Au bar des suicidés

Participations

• 2004: Varied artists, Un dimanche à Kyoto, songs, tales and nursery rhymes by Gilles Vigneault
  Gilles Vigneault
  Gilles Vigneault, is a Canadian poet, publisher and singer-songwriter, and well-known Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist.A poet deeply rooted in his native Quebec, Vigneault has become an icon at home and Quebec ambassador abroad...
  
  : La Petite Adèle, La Petite Annette, C'est le vieux Pipo, Comptine en mode zen (with Ariane Moffatt
  Ariane Moffatt
  Ariane Moffatt is a Canadian francophone singer-songwriter based in Quebec. She has won Félix and Juno Awards and has performed and collaborated with many artists such as Daniel Bélanger and Marc Déry.-Career:...
  
  , Garou
  Garou
  Garou may refer to:* A word from the French "loup-garou", meaning "werewolf"* Garou a French Canadian singer** Garou , the 2006 eponymous album by Garou...
  
  , Luce Dufault
  Luce Dufault
  Luce Dufault is a French-Canadian singer born on August 19, 1966, in Orleans, Ontario. She played in two musicals from Luc Plamondon, La Légende de Jimmy and Starmania....
  
  , Luc De Larochellière, Martin Léon and Jessica Vigneault)
• 2005: Varied artists, Aujourd'hui encore... Hommage à Charles Aznavour, Les plaisirs démodés (avec le Consort contemporain de Québec)
• 2006: Malajube
  Malajube
  Malajube is a francophone indie rock band based in Montreal. The band has three albums out on Dare to Care Records.-History:Formed by a group of friends in Montreal, the band made itself known in 2004 with the release of its first album, Le Compte complet. Critics welcomed the disc with positive...
  
  , Trompe-l'oeil
  Trompe-l'oeil (album)
  Trompe-l'œil is the second album by indie rock band Malajube, released in 2006 on Dare to Care Records. The album is inspired in part by medical themes; in the album's liner notes, each song is given a subtitle relating to some aspect of physical or mental health.-Guest musicians:The song "Montréal...
  
   vocals on Montréal-40°
• 2006: Varied artists, Salut Joe! Hommage à Joe Dassin
  Salut Joe! Hommage à Joe Dassin
  Salut Joe! Hommage à Joe Dassin is an album containing 13 reinterpretations of Joe Dassin's most famous songs. It was released on February 7th, 2006...
  
  , Les yeux d'Émilie
• 2007: Plaza Musique, L'amour et l'Occident, vocals on La ville aux deux soleils
• 2010: Young Artists for Haiti
  Young Artists for Haiti
  Young Artists for Haiti is a movement to engage Canada's young musicians to continue to inspire an ongoing effort and contribution to Canadian charities for their work to help the people of Haiti overcome the devastation from the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that rocked the country on January 12, 2010...
  
  , K'naan's Wavin' Flag

Trivia

• The cover for his second CD had to be changed when it was released in France because it was found that the European audience did not like the lumberjack theme in the Québécois version.

External links

• Pierre Lapointe (official website)
• Audiogram (Record Label with streaming of albums available)