2023-06-27 00:24:57
Happy birthday. The popular singer Garou celebrates his 51st birthday on June 26, 2023. Now single, he is enjoying life. From his career to his links with Celine Dion via “The Voice”, here is everything you need to know.
Summary
Garou celebrates his 51st birthday June 26! But do you know the charismatic singer well? We reveal its secrets to you.
Garou: his “blocking with girls”
Pierre Garand, alias Garou, was born in 1972 in Sherbrooke, Canada. The attractive artist makes his scales by singing at the bar Le Liquor Store in Magog. If today the singer hypnotizes the crowds with his ocean blue eyes and his crooner look, he has long struggled to seduce the fairer sex, especially in his adolescence.
“I was doing a blocking with girls (…) I had no self-confidence. Physically, first, because I did not attach importance to my body. And mentally, I felt silly going to see a girl when it was written on my forehead that I liked her. I’ve made quite a bit of progress over the years. Thanks to music: music around a campfire, looks mysterious, it does“, he said in TV 7 Days.
Garou: his “trauma”
In 1997, success knocked at the door when he was chosen to play the role of Quasimodo, in the now famous musical Notre Dame de Paris.
But the sudden fame is difficult to manage for this modest singer, who is then 26 years old. “I still have a lot of trouble with the digestion of Notre-Dame de Paris. It happened so fast, I really didn’t expect it. When I say yes to that thing, I thought it was great to get on a plane and cross the ocean. I thought I was going to do a play, but not that I was going to be famous“, he entrusted to the microphone ofEurope 1.
And to add: “I thought to myself that, anyway, I was going to be made up. And that people were therefore not going to recognize me in the street (…) On many levels, there was trauma. There is still some left“.
Garou: why he “cut ties” with Celine Dion
In 2000, however, Garou embarked on a solo career. His single Only was a hit and remained number 1 in France’s top singles for 11 weeks. His first opuses were produced by the illustrious husband of Celine Dion, René Angélil.
The following year, the artist sang a duet with her Quebec compatriot, Celine Dion. their tube, Downwind, is propelled to the top of the sales ranking. Their bond is irretrievably strong, but Garou, always in search of a more peaceful life, distances himself. “We were very close with CelineI think she didn’t understand when I cut ties with them. She wanted to take me high and then, at one point, it was almost me who cut the cord to let myself get high. I wanted to go down more than go up. I didn’t want to be all over the planet,” he recently confided in the show As an aside.
Despite this slump, the two Quebecers remain accomplices. “When we meet once more it’s magic because there are a lot of things that happen in our eyes because there was all this complicity, a real connection“, he clarified.
Garou was close to death: his serious accident
Shortly following the success of DownwindGarou is the victim of a terrible accident at the wheel of his Ferrari, when he hits the guardrail. Fortunately, he manages to get out of the vehicle before it catches fire. But the singer truly believed he was dying.
“I counted regarding six seconds, my life has passed, I thought regarding technical stuff, I tried to calculate mathematics. Of the six seconds, let’s say that in two seconds, I experienced hours of thinking and the other four seconds were only for my daughter, who was to be born not long following. I was like, ‘what’s going to happen in his life?‘”, he recalled on the show As an aside.
Garou: his daughter Emélie
At this time, Garou becomes father of a little Emélienow 21 and born out of her former love with the Swedish model Ulrika. But for a long time the singer spent much of his time in France, while his daughter resided in Canada. “We are unfortunately far away very often, but we talk regarding everything. We do not live in daily complicity, but rather in continual reunions. We find ourselves like friends who feel like they left each other the day before and who share everything they have experienced without each other. Our bond remains very strong“, he confided in 2017 to We both.
Garou: the reasons for his breakup with Lorie
In 2006, Cupid’s arrow struck the hearts of Garou and Lori. “We complemented each other well. With him, I learned to have fun, to go out, to let go“, had confided the singer to Gala in 2013.
But in 2010, the lovebirds put an end to this love. “In the end I realized that he expected things that I mightn’t give him. He wanted me more present, more at home. But I also had my career to manage. During this period, I put my professional life aside to devote myself solely to my private life.“, explained Lori.
Garou: his salary in The Voice
Garou officiates as coach for The Voicein France, from 2011 to 2014. At the time, his salary for his participation in the show was estimated at around 450,000 euros per seasonif we are to believe Public.
Garou and Stéphanie Fournier in 2016 © Domine Jerome/ABACA
Garou: who is his girlfriend?
For nearly ten years, Garou shared the life of a lovely brunette named Stéphanie Fournier, model by profession. “She calms me down a lot. fortunately she is To be“, he conceded.
Unfortunately, we learned of their breakup in January 2023 during an interview with Le Parisien. “This is my longest story. We were beginning to live like an old couple. Today, I allow myself more freedom“, he said then.
Garou makes maple syrup: his new life in the forest
Now, if Garou continues to perform on stage, he lives mainly in Canada, bought a forest where he makes maple syrup and built a recording studio in a barn. “I have a old wood salvage company, lots of things I touch that fascinate me“, he entrusted to the microphone of RTL Belgium.
And to clarify:It did me good (…) I have a very festive spirit, I always had the heart to celebrate. Now I party at home in my barnwhere we take out the cards and play a game of poker or take out the guitars and play music“.
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