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- André Fortin, author, singer, musician, performer as born on November 17, 1962, in Saint-Thomas-Didyme in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Québec (Canada). André Fortin was tenth in a family of eleven children. He studied cinema in the early 1980s at the Cégep du Vieux Montréal and went on to study cinematography at the Université de Montréal. In 1985, Fortin got a job as a television editor for shows such as Surprise Sur Prise, 100 Limites and the Bulletin d'information on Télé-Métropole. In 1989, he worked on the filming of the video Libérez le trésor by Michel Rivard.
2116 Saint-Laurent Blvd., where Louis Léger and Dédé Fortin lived in Montréal, was the place to be for discussion, writing and creativity. This is where the happy band would record its self-titled first album, Les Colocs (1993). Joining Dédé Fortin were Mike Sawatzky (electric guitar, slide guitar, harmonica and saxophone), Serge Robert (bass, doublebass and vocals) who would later make his career under the name Mononc'Serge, Bourgoing (drums, backup vocals and percussion) and other friends such as Robert Finkel and Joel Zifkin. Their first album was a commercial success selling more than 150,000 copies, going platinum in Canada.
The song "Julie" quickly rose to the top of the Québec charts. Insisting on creating the video himself using stop-motion animation, Fortin invested himself completely in the project and the result was a true masterpiece. In 2001, Rendez-vous du cinéma Québécois paid him a posthumous tribute for this work.
In the summer of 1999, Les Colocs were applauded by 40,000 fans on the Plains of Abraham and they won the Prix Miroir de la chanson d'expression française du Festival d'été de Québec. Nearly a year later, on 8 May 2000, Dédé Fortin took his own life in his apartment on Rachel Street. His death also marked the end of Les Colocs.- IMDb Mini Biography By: markyoloup
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- Sang and played guitar and several other instruments in the band Les Colocs.
- Played drums in the band The Sneakers.
- Played drums, and later guitar, in the band Cha Cha And The Chain Gang.
- Played drums in the band Hollywood Mufflers.
- Fortin was one of the three founders (along with Martin-Éric Ouellette and Martin Saint-Pierre) of Les Productions Perfo 30, a music video production company registered in May 1985. The company produced 32 music videos in 30 days (August 1985), with a total budget of $50,000. The music videos premiered at an event titled "Colorbar, 30 vidéoclip de Montréal" on November 9th 1985 at the Spectrum.
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