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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Fred Fortin
Person · male · Canada · Dolbeau-Mistassini · born 1971
Canadian musician
Timeline
1 events◦ Birth 1
1970s
Biography
English biography109 words · 2 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1377810949
Biography
Fred Fortin (born Joseph Antoine Frédéric Fortin Perron on 5 May 1971 in Dolbeau-Mistassini, Quebec) is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter. Formerly associated with the bands Galaxie, Gros Mené and Les Breastfeeders, he has also released several solo albums. His 2009 album Plastrer la lune was a longlisted nominee for the 2010 Polaris Music Prize.
In 2007, he also collaborated with Jean-Philippe Fréchette of Navet Confit, Simon Proulx of Les Trois Accords and Vincent Peake of Groovy Aardvark in the supergroup Vauvandalou, who released the one-off single "0.99$" through Bande à part and Radio-Canada's Le Fric Show.
With Gros Mené
1999: Tue ce drum Pierre Bouchard
2012: Agnus Dei
2022: Pax et Bonum
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 6 | 38.9th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
No discography rows stored yet
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Fred Fortin head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 6 | 38.9th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | — | no data |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fred_fortin_play_bass-_%28par_Jean-Philippe_Tremblay%29.jpgcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3086833genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3086833seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Fortinbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Fortin
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Canadian musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Jphilippetremblay · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q3086833 · MusicBrainz: c1198fbf-7538-4655-bffa-c19e3b8105ae
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