Dany Placard

[3] He won the Canadian Folk Music Award for Francophone Songwriter of the Year at the 9th Canadian Folk Music Awards in 2013 for his album Démon vert,[4] and was a nominee in the same category at the 11th Canadian Folk Music Awards in 2015 for Santa Maria.

[5] He played the title character in the 2015 short film Blue Thunder (Bleu tonnerre), and performed music for the soundtrack.

[6] His 2020 album J'connais rien à l'astronomie and the 2021 followup EP Astronomie (suite) feature contributions from singer-songwriter Julie Doiron.

[7] Placard in turn appears on Doiron's 2021 album I Thought of You.

[8] In early 2022, Placard and Doiron announced that a collaborative album, Julie & Dany, would be released in April 2022.