[2][3] He went to high school with musicians Ivan Doroschuk of Men Without Hats and Pascal Languirand of Trans-X and went on to study architecture at University of Montreal.
[11] After The Box's dissolution in 1992, Pisapia collaborated with bandmates Jean-Pierre Brie and Claude Thibault in writing and producing music for TV and radio commercials.
[8][12] Pisapia later formed his own music production company, which he named L'Affaire Dumoutier, after The Box's first hit single.
[12] Pisapia wrote and performed music for ad campaigns for such clients as Bell Canada, McDonald's, and General Motors.
"[13] He also told the paper in 1987 that he was a proponent of "international pop culture," and pointed out that popular artists of the time, such as the Norwegian band A-ha and the Austrian musician Falco, also produced music in English.