[6] In 2009 "J'ai quitté mon île" was selected by CBC Radio listeners among the top 49 Canadian songs in all genres that best defined the country's image for Barack Obama, to be presented to him on an iPod for his inauguration.

[7] The second album, Berceuse pour un Lion (1977) was well received in Quebec and contained several hits ("Dans le temps des animaux", "La Vérité sur la vérité", "Berceuse pour un lion"),[6] but it was the third album, Nirvana bleu (1979) that brought Daniel Lavoie true recognition in Quebec.

[8] The year 1984 was a turning point in Daniel Lavoie's career[9] with the release of his album Tension Attention (European title Ils s'aiment).

More awards followed,[9] and in the spring of 1988 for three months Lavoie performed his show Hôtel des rêves at the Théâtre Outremont in Montreal.

[15] In 1992 Lavoie participated in Catherine Lara's symphonic rock-musical Sand et les Romantiques,[16] performing the part of Eugène Delacroix.

[6] In 1998 Lavoie was cast as priest Frollo in Richard Cocciante and Luc Plamondon's new musical Notre-Dame de Paris, which was based on the eponymous novel by Victor Hugo.

The musical became very successful ("Notre-Dame De Paris" won world's best-selling artist/group for 1998 at the World Music Awards on May 5, 1999)[19] Albums were sold by the millions (certified triple-platinum by CRIA for sales of more than 300,000 copies[20]), and for seven months[6] Daniel sang the part of Frollo in front of sold-out crowds of the Palais des Congrès in Paris.

[22]) In 2002 Lavoie was cast in another musical in Paris, this time Le Petit Prince by Richard Cocciante and Elisabeth Anais, based on Antoine de St-Exupéry's book.

[29] The third installment of the project, the disc La symphonie rapaillée presenting a selection of the songs from the previous two albums, this time accompanied by an orchestra, was released in April 2014.

[30] Beginning in December 2010 Lavoie participated in a series of the concert versions of Notre-Dame de Paris which reunited the original cast.

[34] On March 25, 2014 the French production company Le Chant du Monde (a Harmonia mundi label) released a new disc, Daniel Lavoie: La Licorne captive – Un projet musical de Laurent Guardo.

[36] On July 1, 2014 Daniel Lavoie participated in the official Canada Day on Parliament Hill in Ottawa evening show as one of its featured performers, representing his native Manitoba.

1"[46] (2007), "Leprest symphonique"[47] (2011), Dominica Merola's "Appassionata" (2010), Liona Boyd's "The return... To Canada with love…"[48] (2013), book+disc set "Chats de Paris" by Gérard Beauchamp (2009), followed by "Chats de Montréal" (2011), Valérie Carpentier's "L'été des orages"[49] (2013) et al. Lavoie also produces musical albums by other performers, like Marie-Jo Thério, Louise Forestier, Hart-Rouge Band,[50] and Gilles Vigneault (the album Vivre debout, 2014).

[53] In 2002 Lavoie appeared in a Canadian TV film directed by Claude Fournier The Book of Eve, alongside Claire Bloom.

[17] In 2012 Lavoie appeared in a cameo role in a French TV mini-series Antigone 34, created by Brice Homs and Alexis Nolent.

[63] The show featured music in a variety of styles and of many ethnic origins as well as poetry by Francophone poets, mostly from North America, read on the air by the host himself.