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Bertrand Gosselin was born on May 7, 1952 in East-Angus, Eastern Townships, Quebec, Canada. He is an author, composer and performer best known for having been part of the duo Jim et Bertrand from 1972 to 1979. This collaboration produced four albums, the third of which, La Tête en Gigue, won first prize in the folk category at the Festival International de Musique de Montreux in Switzerland. This album also went on to win a gold disc in Canada, with sales of 50,000. He has released dozens of albums. A dozen as solo artists. In 1974, the eponymous Bertrand Gosselin album included the traditional song "Isabelle" and the melancholy "Knock out dans l'Bloc Vert" . In 1978, he released the album Dame Musique with the songs "Somptueuse Envolée" and "Belles d'Été". The other ten or so albums he produced were devoted to children. In 1987, the album Noël en Chants de Neige was released. In 2013, the album J'entre dans l'imaginaire was released in collaboration with his son Merlin and his partner Marie-Anne Catry. Trained as a classical guitarist, he is the first to have elaborately integrated the guitar into Quebecois popular song. Since the early 2000s, this lover of the French language has been visiting schools to compose songs with young people. His workshop has produced 3,000 songs created with schoolchildren in Quebec, Belgium, Guadeloupe and several French-speaking communities in Canada.
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