Karl Tremblay

Karl Tremblay was a Canadian singer. He was the lead singer of Les Cowboys Fringants, a group he founded in 1994 with Jean-François Pauzé.

Biography

Tremblay was born in Montreal on 28 October 1976. Tremblay and Pauzé founded a music group together and released their first song, "Les routes du bonheur". They then released their first album, titled 12 grandes chansons. Previously a full-time student, Tremblay abandoned his studies to devote himself to Les Cowboys Fringants, which became famous in Quebec in 1999. A true crowd leader, he gained favor with the Quebec public due to his lyricism and charisma. Les Cowboys Fringants sold more than 1,300,000 albums in the French-speaking world in total.
In addition to his career with the band, Tremblay appeared on the TV show , broadcast on MusiquePlus, in which he reviewed video games. In 2016, he participated in the launch of the company Triple Boris Inc., an independent studio for developing video games and mobile apps, for which he was creative director. With the band, he took part in many amateur festivals early in his career, such as Francouvertes.

Personal life and death

Tremblay was married to, one of the instrumentalists for Les Cowboys Fringants. On 19 July 2022, he announced that he had been suffering from prostate cancer since January 2020. Due to his illness, the group cancelled several shows to follow his treatment schedule, although his sporadic appearances were visibly hampered by his sickness. He died from prostate cancer on 15 November 2023, at the age of 47. He was commemorated with a Quebec national funeral at the Bell Centre in Montreal.