Stéphane "Stef" Paquette (born 18 December 1973., in

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) is a

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singer-songwriter, actor, and politician.

Career

A founding member of the band Les Chaizes Muzikales in 1993, Paquette launched a solo career in 2002 with his first solo album, ''L'Homme exponentiel''. His second solo album, ''Salut de l'arrière pays'', was released in 2011 and won a number of awards, including the ''Prix Trille Or'' from the ''Association des professionels de la chanson et de la musique'' in 2013. In January 2014, he won five of the seven prizes at the annual ''Contact ontarois'' music competition, with his prize package including an extensive series of music festival bookings across Canada. In 2009, he appeared on the debut album by Patricia Cano, as a duet vocalist on the track "Nada de nieve". In 2011, he participated as a supporting musician in a reunion tour by the rock band

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. In 2012, Paquette released a full length album, ''Le Salut de l'arrière-pays'' that he composes with Normand Renaud. In 2015, he followed up with a three-song EP. After a three-year hiatus in which cinema, television and other projects took a lot of space, Paquette launched the single "Plus belle que toé" in September 2018. Paquette has started to move into the country/bluegrass genre, frequently in collaboration with the Sudbury band Murder Murder. Paquette is also known as an

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comedian and actor, whose television roles have included ''

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'', '' Les Bleus de Ramville'' and ''

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''. Paquette is one of the three lead actors in the feature film '' Perspective''. In addition, he was also an afternoon host on CHYC-FM in

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, and performed at a rally in Sudbury on 5 April 2009, to protest staff cutbacks at

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, the city's

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station. In 2019, Paquette announced his candidacy in the

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's nomination contest for Nickel Belt in the

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."L'humoriste Stef Paquette se lance dans l’arène politique"

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Nord de l'Ontario, 31 May 2019. He won the nomination and stood second with 32.1% of the vote, 3,390 votes behind the incumbent Liberal MP

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Electoral record

References

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