Pop and rock singer-songwriter Jean-Pierre Ferland, OC CQ was born in Montreal,
Quebec, Canada on June 24, 1934. He began his career in 1956 by working as an
accountant for Radio-Canada. He then began taking guitar lessons and by early
1958, he had begun writing his own material and became part of a group of
songwriters called Les Bozos. He made his singing debut in 1959 on the TV show
Music-Hall and released his debut album, Jean-Pierre, that same year. He scored
a radio hit in 1960 with “Du Côtél de la lune” and achieved significant
attention when he released his sophomore albu...