GAROU. Guest of the Star Academy this Saturday, November 05, the singer Garou has been married since 2013 with Stéphanie Fournier.
Garou is back on TF1. The most famous Canadian singer in France unveiled, this Friday, November 4, 2022, his brand new album called Garou plays Dassin. The opportunity to take a closer look at the (private) life of the essential singer of the French television landscape. Since 2013, Garou has been in a relationship with Stéphanie Fournier, a Canadian model. Very discreet, the latter appears only very little publicly, since the formalization of the couple in April 2013. Together, Garou and Stéphanie Fournier live in Paris, believes to know Gala.
Before this idyll, the Canadian singer often made the headlines of the tabloids because of his relationships, which certainly justifies this discretion. Garou was in fact in a relationship with Ulrika, a Swedish model with whom he has a daughter named Émelie, then with the singer Lorie between 2007 and 2010, whom he had met in Les Enfoirés.
Short biography of Garou
He offered French-speaking songs a few hits that have become cults: Garou is an integral part of the musical landscape in France. Born in 1972 in Canada, the singer made a name for himself in the hearts of the French at the end of the 1990s, in the cult musical Notre-Dame de Paris. There followed a prolific solo career and a dozen albums.
Pierre Garand, better known as Garou, was born on June 26, 1972 in Sherbrooke, Canada. Very quickly, in parallel with his studies, he became passionate about music: he began to sing blues and jazz in local bars, then founded a group called The Untouchables. It was at this time that he was already noticed: Luc Plamondon approached him for the musical Notre Dame of Paris. Seducing both the producer and Richard Cocciante, in 1997 he landed the role that made him known: that of Quasimodo.
With his song Belle, Garou won a prize at the World Music Awards and won the Victoire de la Musique for Song of the Year. The success of Notre Dame of Paris is immense and marks the beginning of Garou’s career. In 2000, he made his solo debut and unveiled his very first hit, Only. In total, Garou’s discography has nine studio albums.
In France, Garou is also famous for his numerous participations in Les Enfoirés: since 1999, he has only missed seven shows of the Restos du Cœur troupe. The Canadian is also a familiar face to TF1 viewers, since he was coach of The Voice from 2012 to 2014, then in 2016.
Garou in 5 cult songs
- Only : released in 2000, on the eponymous album, the song Only is THE indisputable hit of Garou’s discography. The single remains ranked for 10 consecutive weeks at the top of the single sales chart in France in 2001.
- Beautiful : excerpt from the cult musical Notre Dame of Paristhe song Beautiful is interpreted by Garou, alias Quasimodo, but also Patrick Fiori (Phoebus) and Daniel Lavoie (Frolo). It is dedicated, it is necessary to specify, to Esmeralda, embodied on stage by Hélène Ségara.
- Downwind : another indisputable hit from Garou’s discography, the song Downwindtaken from her first album released in 2001, is performed in duet with Celine Dion.
- The river of our childhood : song interpreted in duet by Garou and Michel Sardou, it appeared in 2004. The single was a huge success: it was at the top of the French rankings for five weeks and sold 462,500 copies.
- Gypsy : another excerpt from his first album, Onlythe song Gypsy came out in 2000.
Garou and Celine Dion
Invited by Thomas Sotto on the show 8 p.m. on Sunday on June 17, 2018, Garou remembered his meeting with Celine Dion. The singer said he met the famous singer many years ago when he played Quasimodo in the musical Notre Dame of Paris. “The first meeting with Céline was in backstage at Notre Dame of Paris. In the wings. She didn’t know me and it’s true that when there was the break, everyone was panicked because there was Celine Dion” he said. While a real “crush” s’ was created behind the scenes, Garou preferred to step aside and wait.
“Everyone wanted a piece of her, to meet her. Me, on the contrary, I said to myself ‘Poor thing, it must not be funny to be known like that’. I found it almost deplorable” remembered the singer. “And when she came to meet us in backstage, I made myself very quiet. I went to a corner and it was she who came to see me. And finally we chatted and we really laughed together. So it was a great first meeting”, said Garou. Later, in 2000, the two artists performed together as a duet, the legendary song Downwind.