Baroque pop crooner
Pierre Lapointe was born in Lac St. Jean, Quebec, in 1981. A kind of spiritual heir to the music immortal French composer
Serge Gainsbourg, his elegantly debauched self-titled debut LP also earned comparison to
Rufus Wainwright upon its mid-2004 release.
Lapointe's follow-up,
La Forêt des Mal-aimés, was released in the spring of 2006. ~ Jason Ankeny