Damien Robitaille

About

The artist

Damien Robitaille is a Franco-Ontarian singer-songwriter, performer, and multi-instrumentalist originally from Lafontaine, Ontario and based in Montreal. He began composing in French as a teenager, studied classical music, and released an early self-titled recording in 2003 before moving to Montreal in 2004. After training at the École nationale de la chanson and winning the Francouvertes, he joined Audiogram and released L'homme qui me ressemble in 2006. His catalog developed through Homme autonome, Omniprésent, Univers parallèles, Bientôt ce sera Noël, and the 2025 album Ultraviolet. Across those recordings, Robitaille combines francophone pop songwriting with folk, soul, funk, dance, country, and retro-pop references, often using humour and character-driven performance. During the 2020 lockdown period, his multi-instrumental Chanson du jour videos reached a wide online audience and showed him layering vocals, guitar, piano, bass, drums, and other instruments from home. That series led to consecutive ADISQ Félix awards for online reach in 2021 and 2022. Ultraviolet returned his original songwriting to the foreground with acoustic guitar, synthesizers, and songs in French and English. The canonical Spotify identifier matches Apple Music, MusicBrainz, Audiogram-linked official pages, and an active tour schedule extending through 2026. Current official and DSP biographies explicitly identify him as Montreal-based. This profile uses original bilingual editorial text and keeps sourced research separate from claimed or verified status.