Garou (singer)
Garou (from French Loup Garou , in German werewolf ; born June 26, 1972 in Sherbrooke , Québec ; real name Pierre Garand ) is a Canadian singer.
biography
Garand learned to play the piano when he was five. In junior high he played guitar in the school band Windows & Doors . In the early 1990s, he joined the Canadian Army as a trumpeter. He then got by with various jobs and appeared in bars on the side. He founded the band The Untouchables in the mid-1990s . In 1997, Luc Plamondon was on the show Garand appeared on. He invited him to an audition in Paris to play Quasimodo in the musical Notre-Dame de Paris . The drama debuted in 1998 at the Palais des congrès de Paris ; the soundtrack (with Daniel Lavoie, among others ) was 17, the single Belle 60 weeks in the French charts , of which 18 weeks at number one.
His first album Seul was released in 2000 and the live album Seul ... Avec Vous a year later . In 2003 his album Reviens was released . In 2000 he recorded the duet "Sous le vent" with Celine Dion , which became a hit in France and Switzerland . In 2004 he recorded "La rivière de notre enfance" with Michel Sardou , who is well known in France. This duet was also successful. In 2008 Garou's first English-language album was released. The first single from it was "Stand Up", a song written by Rob Thomas . The CD also contained a cover version of the Melanie C hit "First Day of My Life".
He regularly takes part in the annual Les Enfoirés charity concert , the largest media event in the Francophone world.
In 2007, Garou got together with French singer and actress Lorie , but they separated again in June 2010 after rumors of a wedding were revised.
Discography
Albums
year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
FR | BE W | CH | CA | |||
2000 | Seul |
FR1
diamond
(106 weeks)FR |
BE W1 × 2
(102 weeks)BE W |
CH9 × 2
(87 weeks)CH |
CA2 × 3
(7 weeks)CA |
|
2001 | Seul ... avec vous |
FR3
platinum
(49 weeks)FR |
BE W5
platinum
(35 weeks)BE W |
CH29
gold
(29 weeks)CH |
- | |
2003 | Reviens |
FR3 × 2
(93 weeks)FR |
BE W1
gold
(77 weeks)BE W |
CH5
platinum
(18 weeks)CH |
- | |
2004 | Seul / Seul ... avec vous |
FR156 (2 weeks) FR |
- | - | - | |
2006 | Garou |
FR1
platinum
(54 weeks)FR |
BE W1 (39 weeks) BE W |
CH5
gold
(17 weeks)CH |
CA6 (1 week) CA |
|
2008 | Piece of My Soul |
FR3 (23 weeks) FR |
BE W3 (26 weeks) BE W |
CH8 (10 weeks) CH |
CA2
gold
(4 weeks)CA |
|
2009 | Gentleman Cambrioleur |
FR35
gold
(18 weeks)FR |
BE W15 (19 weeks) BE W |
CH30 (6 weeks) CH |
- | |
2010 | Version intégrale |
FR33 (8 weeks) FR |
BE W24 (13 weeks) BE W |
CH36 (7 weeks) CH |
- | |
2012 | Rhythm and Blues |
FR2 × 2
(51 weeks)FR |
BE W2 (32 weeks) BE W |
CH18 (21 weeks) CH |
- | |
2013 | Au milieu de ma vie |
FR5
platinum
(42 weeks)FR |
BE W2 (48 weeks) BE W |
CH11 (18 weeks) CH |
- | |
2014 | Le meilleur |
FR34 (10 weeks) FR |
BE W12 (44 weeks) BE W |
- | - |
compilation
|
It's magic! |
FR12
platinum
(12 weeks)FR |
BE W3 (18 weeks) BE W |
CH22 (5 weeks) CH |
- | ||
2019 | Soul City |
FR8th
gold
(35 weeks)FR |
BE W2 (17 weeks) BE W |
CH8 (6 weeks) CH |
CA27 (3 weeks) CA |
Singles
year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
FR | BE W | CH | CA | |||
1998 | Belle |
FR1
diamond
(60 weeks)FR |
BE W1 × 3
(44 weeks)BE W |
- | - |
with Daniel Lavoie & Patrick Fiori
|
1999 | Dieu que le monde est injuste |
FR56 (9 weeks) FR |
- | - | - | |
2000 | Seul Seul |
FR1
diamond
(25 weeks)FR |
BE W1 × 2
(25 weeks)BE W |
CH10 (26 weeks) CH |
- | |
2001 | Je n'attendais que vous Seul |
FR34 (19 weeks) FR |
BE W20 (11 weeks) BE W |
- | - | |
Sous le vent Seul |
FR1
diamond
(18 weeks)FR |
BE W1
platinum
(29 weeks)BE W |
CH2
platinum
(37 weeks)CH |
- |
with Celine Dion
|
|
2002 | Le monde est stone Seul ... avec vous |
FR27 (11 weeks) FR |
BE W20 (7 weeks) BE W |
- | - | |
2003 | Reviens (où te caches-tu?) Reviens |
FR9
gold
(21 weeks)FR |
BE W10 (11 weeks) BE W |
CH23 (15 weeks) CH |
- | |
2004 | La rivière de notre enfance |
FR1
gold
(26 weeks)FR |
BE W1 (19 weeks) BE W |
CH14 (25 weeks) CH |
- |
with Michel Sardou
|
2005 | Do it comme ça |
FR10
silver
(26 weeks)FR |
BE W4 (20 weeks) BE W |
CH23 (25 weeks) CH |
- |
with Marilou
|
2006 | L'injustice Garou |
FR11 (21 weeks) FR |
BE W17 (10 weeks) BE W |
CH44 (9 weeks) CH |
- | |
2008 | Stand Up Piece of My Soul |
- | - | - |
CA68 (2 weeks) CA |
|
Heaven's Table Piece of My Soul |
- | - | - |
CA96 (3 weeks) CA |
||
2012 | Le jour se lève ... rhythm and blues |
FR115 (4 weeks) FR |
- | - | - | |
2013 | Avancer Au milieu de ma vie |
FR57 (9 weeks) FR |
BE W31 (5 weeks) BE W |
CH73 (1 week) CH |
- | |
La belle et la bete |
FR177 (1 week) FR |
- | - | - |
with Camille Lou
|
|
2014 | You vent, des mots Au milieu de ma vie |
FR131 (6 weeks) FR |
- | - | - |
with Charlotte Cardin
|
Petit garçon It's Magic |
FR3 (6 weeks) FR |
- | - | - |
with Ryan
|
Awards for music sales
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|
Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.
Country / Region | silver | gold | platinum | diamond | Sales | swell |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources) |
||||||
Belgium (BEA) | - | gold1 | 9 × platinum9 | - | 475,000 | ultratop.be |
Europe (IFPI) | - | - | 2 × platinum2 | - | (2,000,000) | ifpi.org ( Memento from January 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) |
France (SNEP) | silver1 | 4 × gold4th | 11 × platinum11 | 5 × diamond5 | 5,735,000 | infodisc.fr snepmusique.com |
Canada (MC) | - | 2 × gold2 | 3 × platinum3 | - | 400,000 | musiccanada.com |
Poland (ZPAV) | - | - | platinum1 | - | 40,000 | bestsellery.zpav.pl |
Switzerland (IFPI) | - | 2 × gold2 | 4 × platinum4th | - | 195,000 | hitparade.ch |
All in all | silver1 | 9 × gold9 | 30 × platinum30th | 5 × diamond5 |
Trivia
At the invitation of Guy Laliberté, Garand played the Big One for One Drop in Monte-Carlo in October 2016 , which at that time was the most expensive poker tournament in the world with a buy-in of one million euros .
Web links
- Official website (French and English)
- Discography
Individual evidence
- ↑ Profile. Retrieved August 13, 2012 .
- ↑ Swiss hit parade. Retrieved August 13, 2012 .
- ↑ Biography up to 2008. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 5, 2013 ; Retrieved August 13, 2012 .
- ↑ Article. Retrieved August 13, 2012 .
- ↑ Article. Retrieved August 13, 2012 .
- ↑ a b Chart sources: FR BEW CH CA
- ↑ € 1 Million One Drop Extravaganza - 24 players left in the world's most expensive tournament on pokerolymp.com on October 15, 2016, accessed on June 6, 2020.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Garou |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Garand, Pierre (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian singer |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1972 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Sherbrooke , Quebec , Canada |