Stéphane Paquette | |
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 Stéphane Paquette at French music festival La Nuit sur l'étang, in Sudbury | |
| Background information | |
| Also known as | Stef |
| Born | December 18, 1973 Chelmsford, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation(s) | Singer-songwriter, actor |
| Years active | 1993–present |
| Website | www |
Stéphane "Stef" Paquette (born December 18, 1973., in Chelmsford, Ontario) is a Franco-Ontarian 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.[1] 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.[2]
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 CANO.[3]
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 improv comedian and actor, whose television roles have included Météo+, Les Bleus de Ramville[4] and Hard Rock Medical. 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 Sudbury, and performed at a rally in Sudbury on 5 April 2009, to protest staff cutbacks at CBCS-FM, the city's CBC Radio One station.[5]
In 2019, Paquette announced his candidacy in the New Democratic Party's nomination contest for Nickel Belt in the 2019 Canadian federal election.[6] He won the nomination, and stood second with 32.1% of the vote, 3,390 votes behind the incumbent Liberal MP Marc Serré.
Electoral record
| 2019 Canadian federal election: Nickel Belt | ||||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | Expenditures | |||
| Liberal | Marc Serré | 19,046 | 38.99 | -3.81 | $96,428.93 | |||
| New Democratic | Stéphane Paquette | 15,656 | 32.05 | -5.73 | $18,983.01 | |||
| Conservative | Aino Laamanen | 10,343 | 21.17 | +4.43 | $7,684.88 | |||
| Green | Casey Lalonde | 2,644 | 5.41 | +2.93 | none listed | |||
| People's | Mikko Paavola | 1,159 | 2.37 | – | none listed | |||
| Total valid votes/expense limit | 48,848 | 99.39 | ||||||
| Total rejected ballots | 298 | 0.61 | +0.22 | |||||
| Turnout | 49,146 | 64.17 | -2.94 | |||||
| Eligible voters | 76,585 | |||||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | +0.96 | ||||||
| Source: Elections Canada[7][8] | ||||||||
References
- ↑ Castonguay, Pascale (31 March 2013). "Gala des prix Trille Or : deux statuettes pour les Chiclettes". Le Métropolitain (in French). Archived from the original on 3 February 2014.
- ↑ "Stef Paquette wins 'the golden ticket' to employment". Northern Life, 29 January 2014.
- ↑ Marc André Joanisse (16 June 2011). "Un dernier "gros show" pour CANO" [One last "big show" for CANO]. Le Droit (in French). Retrieved 22 January 2012.
- ↑ "Greater Sudbury is stage for hockey drama" Northern Life, 9 February 2011.
- ↑ "Musicians, politicians participate in CBC rally" Archived 9 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine. Northern Life, 7 April 2009.
- ↑ "L'humoriste Stef Paquette se lance dans l’arène politique". Ici Radio-Canada Nord de l'Ontario, 31 May 2019.
- ↑ "List of confirmed candidates". Elections Canada. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
- ↑ "Official Voting Results". Elections Canada. Retrieved 15 July 2021.