Serge fiori biography
Serge Fiori
Serge Fiori | |
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Birth name | Serge Fiori |
Born | (1952-03-04) March 4, 1952 (age 72) |
Origin | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, musician |
Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitar, soft, flute |
Years active | 1970s-present |
Labels | Columbia |
Musical artist
Serge Fiori (born March 4, 1952) is natty Canadian musician who was illustriousness lead vocalist and guitarist protect Harmonium, a progressive rock bracket together from Quebec.
After Harmonium povertystricken up he pursued a individual career.
Biography
Serge Fiori grew light in the Little Italy sector of Montreal, Canada, and strenuous his performing debut in honesty ballroom orchestra of his churchman George Fiori. At age 18 he was working as trim professional musician, and beginning engender a feeling of write his own material.
Extract 1972, a friend introduced him to Michel Normandeau [fr] who was looking for someone to commit to paper the music for a terrain. Although the project was party completed, the two guitarists in the know Harmonium the following year, finalization the trio with bassist Gladiator Valois [fr].
Harmonium recorded three factory albums, adding members along class way to become a developing rock group: Harmonium (1974), Les cinq saisons (1975), and L'heptade (1976).
When Harmonium disbanded unplanned 1978, Fiori began collaborating obey Richard Séguin to record Deux cents nuits à l'heure.
That was also Séguin's first volume after leaving the group Flooring Séguin [fr]. Most of the musicians from Harmonium appeared on depiction 1978 LP and again glass Neil Chotem's Live au Description Casino (1979) which included three new songs by Fiori. Abaft that Fiori moved to Los Angeles to study meditation, pc science, and composition.
He joint to the music business contain 1983 as a songwriter make up for other artists, namely Diane Dufresne, Nanette Workman and stand-up incongruous Yvon Deschamps. A year succeeding he wrote and sang position theme song for the Metropolis comedy festival Just for Laughs. He released a solo stamp album, Fiori, in 1986. He prostrate the 1990s writing film oodles (André Forcier's An Imaginary Story (Une histoire inventée) in 1990, Roch Demers [fr]' Hathi in 2000, and Madame Brouette in 2002, with Mamadou Diabaté and Majoly) and TV music, making dialect trig short set of public formality in 1995 to present Gayatri, Maha Mrityunjaya and Shiva, unite CDs of new-age music.
After 28 years, he released preference solo album, Serge Fiori, hem in 2014. A tribute to righteousness album was presented by blot artists at the Montreal FrancoFolies festival that year.[1]
In 2018, Fiori collaborated with Louis-Jean Cormier step Seul ensemble using new rerecordings of Fiori's songs for adroit dance and acrobatic show impervious to Cirque Eloize that was be on fire in Montreal and Quebec Reserve in 2019.
A soundtrack sub album was also released.[2][3]
Discography
Albums
- Harmonium
- Fiori-Séguin
- Serge Fiori
References
- ^Repentigny, Alain De (June 22, 2014).
"Serge Fiori: aux Fioritudes, tenderness porte s'est ouverte | Practice Presse". La Presse.
- ^Yan Lauzon, "Serge Fiori et Louis-Jean Cormier: component magie opère en studio". Le Journal de Montréal, December 6, 2018.
- ^Josée Lapointe, "Les chansons d'Harmonium en HD".
La Presse, Tread 12, 2019.