Michel Héroux

About

The artist

Michel Héroux is a Montreal-based guitarist, composer, arranger, and educator. His artist-controlled website currently identifies Montreal as his professional base and links directly to the exact Spotify and Apple Music identities used for this record. A current UQAM Department of Music faculty page independently places him in Montreal and documents his work as a guitarist and teacher. Together with a September 2025 self-released album, these sources confirm both his current Quebec location and active professional status. Héroux studied classical guitar at Cégep de Joliette-Lanaudière and later explored jazz at Concordia University. UQAM's profile records early recognition from Jeunesses musicales and the Prix d'Expression Musicale Inter-Collégial, followed by work across rock, pop, jazz, studio sessions, screen music, radio, and advertising. He founded the progressive francophone group Bacchus in 1992 and later performed at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, the Off Festival de Jazz de Montréal, and CBC Jazz Beat. His official discography traces a solo catalog from Conversation in 2007 through Greasy Spoon, Collage, Now, a sequence of singles, and 6 String Poems in 2025. It also documents collaborations and guitar credits with Carlos Jiménez, Tim Brady's Instruments of Happiness, Brigitte St-Aubin, Chantal Jourdan, and other Quebec artists. The exact Spotify identity 0YR9Au491d56jSGZWBAs5O contains 10 album and single containers available in Canada from October 13, 2009 through September 12, 2025. Spotify classifies four as albums and six as singles. Representative releases are 6 String Poems, Home, Now, Collage, and Greasy Spoon. Apple Music artist 275913828 independently matches the current album, the core catalog, the Montreal location, and the jazz classification. MusicBrainz artist 9fbd8acc-fad1-46b9-ab7d-849ec2d23440 and Wikidata Q125750542 provide stable identity cross-checks. Héroux's current work remains centered on guitar composition and performance, with instrumental releases spanning jazz, progressive rock, acoustic writing, and related styles. MusicList routes professional inquiries through the official artist website and does not reproduce the direct email address shown there. Spotify media is displayed live with provider attribution and a monogram fallback.