Daniel Lavoie

Daniel Lavoie (born March 17, 1949) is a French-Canadian singer and songwriter. Born in Dunrea, Manitoba, Canada, his mother was a musician and he learned to play piano at a young age. In 1967, Lavoie won a singer-songwriter competition for the Société Radio-Canada French language television program, Jeunesse oblige which gave him his first major publicity. The young franco-manitoban played and sang in English and French with two different groups but his singing career began to blossom following a 1970 tour in the province of Quebec. Read more on Last.fm

Daniel Lavoie was featured in the movie Rise Up: Canadian Pop Music in the 1980s.

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