1. In 1967, Daniel Lavoie won the CBC's competition for singer-songwriters, in the television program, "Jeunesse Oblige".
22 Facts About Daniel Lavoie
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In 1973 Daniel Lavoie recorded his first single, "Marie connue", and in 1974, his second, "S'endormir pour une rose".
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Daniel Lavoie toured all over Quebec and performed in France.
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In 1981, Daniel Lavoie released his first English-language album Cravings as well as his fourth French-language album Aigre doux.
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In 1992 Daniel Lavoie participated in Catherine Lara's symphonic rock-musical Sand et les Romantiques, performing the part of Eugene Delacroix.
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Daniel Lavoie appeared in an episode of the American soap opera General Hospital as himself performing his own song "Weak for Love".
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In 1998 Daniel Lavoie was cast as priest Frollo in Richard Cocciante and Luc Plamondon's new musical Notre-Dame de Paris, which was based on the eponymous novel by Victor Hugo.
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The musical became very successful Albums were sold by the millions, and for seven months Daniel Lavoie sang the part of Frollo in front of sold-out crowds of the Palais des Congres in Paris.
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In 2002 Daniel Lavoie was cast in another musical in Paris, this time Le Petit Prince by Richard Cocciante and Elisabeth Anais, based on Antoine de St-Exupery's book.
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Daniel Lavoie performed the part of the Pilot until April 2003.
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In February 2005 Daniel Lavoie participated in a stage revival of Nelligan, an opera by Andre Gagnon based on the works and biography of Emile Nelligan, Quebec's late 19th-century poet.
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In 2011 Daniel Lavoie released J'ecoute la radio, an album of newly arranged hits plus a new song.
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On July 1,2014 Daniel Lavoie participated in the official Canada Day on Parliament Hill in Ottawa evening show as one of its featured performers, representing his native Manitoba.
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Since November 2016 Daniel Lavoie has been part of the cast of the revival of the musical Notre Dame de Paris reprising his role of Frollo in the Palais des Congres in Paris, followed by the ongoing tour of France and other countries.
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Daniel Lavoie produces musical albums by other performers, like Marie-Jo Therio, Louise Forestier, Hart-Rouge Band, and Gilles Vigneault.
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Daniel Lavoie acted in a 1991 Canadian film by Jean Pierre Lefebvre, The Fabulous Voyage of the Angel, for which he wrote the musical score.
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Daniel Lavoie received a Genie Award nomination for Best Original Song, for "Quand tu partiras".
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In 2002 Daniel Lavoie appeared in a Canadian TV film directed by Claude Fournier The Book of Eve, alongside Claire Bloom.
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In 2004 Daniel Lavoie starred as Quebec's singer-songwriter Felix Leclerc in the mini-series Felix Leclerc, directed by Fournier for Canadian and French television.
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In 2012 Daniel Lavoie appeared in a cameo role in a French TV mini-series Antigone 34, created by Brice Homs and Alexis Nolent.
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In 2019 and 2020 Daniel Lavoie participated in the Canadian Film Festival in Dieppe as a jury member and as jury president.
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For three years Daniel Lavoie was hosting his own radio show, Lavoie libre, on the Espace Musique channel of Radio Canada.