BIOGRAPHY

Co-stars on hit TV drama Chambres en ville, airing on TVA

Co-hosts science-themed kids’ TV show Les Débrouillards along with Marie-Soleil Tougas (until 1997), and then with various young co-hosts

Hosts Radio-Canada TV game show Que le meilleur gagne for 5 years

Hosts late-night talk show Chabada

Hosts variety TV show Multishow on French network TF1

Hosts La cour des Grands on TVA

Narrates French version of Disney documentary African Cats

Joins teaching faculty on TVA singing competition show Star Académie

Dubs Bruno Mars’ voice as Roberto in Rio 2

Produces and hosts the shows Virtuose, Crescendo and Le vrai nouveau monde on ICI Radio-Canada

Returns to teaching on TVA’s Star Académie

Hosts daily radio show on CKOI-FM

Hosts Des airs de toi on Radio-Canada’s Radio 1

Acquires two classical musical stations, in Montreal and Quebec City

Hosts weekend show Sonnez les matines on Radio-Classique

Hosts 100 % Greg Saturdays & Sundays on Wknd radio station

Plays New York’s Carnegie Hall, reaffirming piano prodigy status

Plays piano as guest soloist with the Leeds, Prague, Winnipeg and Laval Symphony Orchestras

Performs on world’s biggest stages (Wembley, Stade de France, etc.) across USA, China and Japan as back-up singer and featured pianist on Céline Dion’s Let’s Talk About Love tour

Makes first of many stage appearances at Festival Juste pour rire

Triumphs in Canada and U.S. in Two Pianos, Four Hands (“Deux pianos, quatre mains”)

Tours Canada and plays New York’s Beacon Theater with his first one-man show, titled Noir & Blanc – an interactive performance showcasing his impressive musical background, with the entire second act devoted to audience requests (show is seen by over 1 million people and runs for a record-breaking 43 performances at Montreal’s Bell Centre)

Records debut original-music album I Think of You while convalescing from a fractured elbow, suffered in a fall from Bell Centre stage during his world tour

Presents his stage show Music Man, mainly in Quebec and France

Plays Edinburgh’s Fringe Festival and first of several performances at New York’s iconic Café Carlyle

Acquires mobile theatre Le Qube, for which he creates the interactive show Vintage

Presents Noir & Blanc 2, in collaboration with fellow singer and close friend Marc Hervieux

Returns to stage with It was a very good year

Wins Grand Prize at Canadian Music Competition, establishing himself as a classical pianist at the age of 10

Wins Artis Award for Favourite Youth-Audience Personality

Wins Gémeaux Award for Best Youth-Audience TV Host, for Les Débrouillards

Wins Félix Award for Live Performer of the Year, for Noir et Blanc

Wins Gémeaux Award for Best Awards-Show Host, for Gala Metrostar

Wins Félix Award for English-language Album of the Year, for Gospel Live en Noir & Blanc

October: Releases the album I Think of You, which sells over 100,000 copies on its first day 

December: The album goes double-platinum (200,000 copies sold), on its way to triple-platinum in 2008, and eventually 500 000 copies sold

Spends 11 weeks at #1 on Quebec music charts with the smash radio single I Think of You

Wins Félix Award for English-language Album of the Year, for I Think of You

Wins Félix Award for Male Performer of the Year

Receives honorary Ph.D. in Civil Law from Bishop’s University

Becomes Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medallist

Receives Martin Luther King Jr. Award for exceptional musical career

Named Officer of the Order of Canada

Wins Gémeaux Award for hosting youth program Virtuose

Wins Gémeaux Award for Best Youth Entertainment Program or Series, for Crescendo

Wins 5^th Félix Award, this time for Instrumental Album of the Year, for Len (dedicated to his father Lennox Charles)

Weds Nicole Collet (Director, Dynamics Division, Microsoft France) on October 9 in Frelighsburg, Quebec

Welcomes daughter Julia to the world on January 29