Daniel Bélanger

Electro-folk singer/songwriter Daniel Bélanger surfaced from obscurity in 1992 to be probably one of the most acclaimed and popular Québecois performers of his era. Given birth to in Montreal in 1962, Bélanger 1st attracted interest in 1983 using the group Humphrey Salade. Despite a fervent pursuing on the neighborhood golf club scene, the music group never documented, and following its demise he installed a solo profession, contending in the Rock and roll Envol de la SRC competition with limited achievement. Bélanger continued to be a fixture from the Montreal golf club circuit through the entire remainder from the 10 years, finally landing an archive offer in 1991 — his debut work, Les Insomniaques S’Amusent, adopted a year later on and vaulted its inventor to overnight popularity on the effectiveness of the business lead solitary “Opium,” which spent seven weeks atop the Québecois graphs. Drawing on affects spanning from choice rock to digital music to traditional folk, Les Insomniaques S’Amusent eventually sold a lot more than 100,000 copies coming to declaring France’s sought after Prix SACEM aswell as four Félix Honours. Bélanger’s follow-up, Quatre Saisons dans le Désordre, was four years in the producing — the business lead one “Les Deux Printemps” even so spent a lot more than six months in the Québecois graphs, while the record itself went silver in its initial week of discharge. Bélanger’s next task was 1999’s three-disc live established Tricycle. Its 2001 studio room follow-up, Rêver Mieux, was his most experimental work to time, channeling motivation from contemporaries including Radiohead and Surroundings, but still attaining platinum position. Déflaboxe was a lot more complicated, embracing sampling, jazz, and a good little bit of rapping. Finally, in 2007 Bélanger came back to his folk root base with L’Échec du Matériel.