Luc Plamondon, born in 1942 in Saint-Raymond, Québec, is a Canadian songwriter
who studied piano and pursued classical studies at the Petit Séminaire de
Québec, and who found his vocation for musical theatre after seeing Hair on
Broadway. His first commercial success arrived in 1970 with the song “Les
Chemins d’été”, recorded by Steve Fiset, followed by collaborations with artists
such as Monique Leyrac, Renée Claude and Diane Dufresne in the early 1970s. From
1976 he co-wrote the rock opera Starmania with Michel Berger, and several of its
songs have since come to be regarded as ...