Lucien Francœur

Born on September 9, 1948 in Montreal, Canada, Lucien Francoeur is a Quebec rock singer and poet. In the early 1970s, he worked as a cab driver, writing poetry. In 1973, he met Pierre-André Gauthier, who set his lyrics to music. This meeting led to the formation of the group Aut' Chose in 1974. After the group split up in 1977, he gave rock poetry shows in Quebec and Paris, and continued to publish books and record albums. Wishing to devote himself to teaching literature, he returned to school in 1979, and a few months later became a professor in the French department at Cégep Rosemont (Montreal). In 1983, he released the album Jour Et Nuit with the song " Le Rap-à-Billy ", which became one of his biggest solo hits. From 1989 to 1996, he was a radio host at Montreal station CKOI-FM, and in 1994, he got his own TV show on TQS, Le Blues À Francoeur . In 1992, Lucien Francoeur's life was chronicled in a feature film entitled Exit Pour Nomades . In 1999, he published the literary work Ne Cherche Rien / Ailleurs Qu'Ici. Two years later, in 2001, he launched three books and an album in the same year. Lucien Francoeur returned to radio in February 2003, reforming the group Aut' Chose with members of Voïvod, Groovy Aardvark and Grimskunk, as well as Jacques Racine, one of the original members. On April 7, 2005, they returned to the stage at Montreal's Café Campus. In 2011, he recites poems to music by Vromb, an album released in 2011 entitled Avant Ailleurs. The following year, he released the poem collection Bayou Vertige. 2013 sees the publication of his biography, Francoeur, le Rockeur Sanctifié, written by Charles Messier.

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