Un serpent sous les fleurs, released March 24th 2009 on Bonsound Records, is Yann Perreau's third and life-changing album. Winner of a Felix at the 2009 ADISQ Gala for Singer-songwriter of the year, nominated at the 2010 Juno Awards for Francophone album of the year, the man behind the hit singles Beau comme on s'aime, Le president danse autrement and L'amour se meurt is only getting raving reviews for his latest album and his show. After this inspiring last year, Yann Perreau is starting 2010 with energy by giving many concerts in France and in Quebec.
Yann Perreau loves human contact and for this poet-songwriter and self-taught interpreter, the stage has always been a playground. At 18 only, he walks toward the start of his professional career, and quickly built a reputation for himself as a ? beast who swallows the stage! ? (Alexandre Vigneault, La Presse). After five years of rock?n?roll as the singer of Doc et les chirurgiens, and after cumulating two albums and hundreds of shows, Perreau decides to pack up his bag and leave the country to begin a life-questioning journey that will lead him straight to the mythic west of America.
In this state of mind, he starts to write the material for his first solo album, Western Romance. After his return, Perreau begins a one-year training at the acting DOJO under the wing of Pol Pelletier, renowned lady of the theater. This union will be crucial for the singer. In November of 2002, the release of Western Romance, co-produced by Gilles Brisebois, will earn Yann Perreau many awards such as the Belgium-Quebec Rapsat-Lelievre awards, the Miroir Prize at the Festival d?ete de Quebec and the Felix-Leclerc Prize at the Francofolies de Montreal. The Western Romance show is presented all over the Quebec province, in Belgium, France, Canada and Mexico.
In 2005, Yann Perreau delivers his second album, Nucleaire, produced this time by Eric Goulet. Critics are still unanimous to say that Perreau owns a very special place in the music scene in Quebec. After finalizing a whole new atmosphere, the singer presents a brand new show called Perreau et la lune, a luminous mix of both his albums that will make the singer tour constantly in the year following the release. In the Fall of 2007, stage dynamo Yann Perreau wins the Director of the year Felix for the show. 2008 sets the release of the CD\DVD Perreau et la lune, live au Quat'Sous, which gets him a Felix award for the DVD of the year. But all this was before the Un serpent sous les fleurs tornado, released in 2009, which changed Yann Perreau's life forever.
Un serpent sous les fleurs, sorti en mars 2009 sur Bonsound Records, est tout simplement la consecration pour Yann Perreau. Recipiendaire du Felix de l'Auteur-compositeur de l'annee au Gala de l'ADISQ 2009 et en nomination au Junos 2010 pour l'Album francophone de l'annee, l'homme derriere Beau comme on s'aime, Le president danse autrement et L'amour se meurt n'a recu que des critiques elogieuses autant pour son spectacle que pour son dernier opus. Fort de cette annee 2009 enlevante, le jeune artiste a entame 2010 avec ferveur avec une serie de concerts en France et au Quebec.
Nourri des parfums de l?Europe, des saveurs de l?amour et des couleurs de l?Inde, c?est avec la maturite du trentenaire independant que l?auteur, compositeur et interprete se devoile ici, aussi bete de scene qu?homme de lettres. Epaule par son complice Alex McMahon, avec qui il signe la realisation de l?album, et entoure des musiciens George Donoso III, Martin Pelland (ex-The Dears), Sebastien Martel (M, Camille) et Olivier Langevin, Yann Perreau signe onze titres absorbants, excites, voire incendiaires, avec ce qu?il aime d?ambiant et de poetique. Les mots coulent et imbibent ? les siens et ceux de ses collaborateurs Michel X Cote, Dede Trake et Camille, entre autres ?, les musiques racontent et revent, et les corps, eux, se tortillent. C?est beau comme on s?aime...
- 2003