Michael Breen is the former stage name of Michel Pépin (born 1960 in Nicolet, Quebec), a Canadian pop and rock singer and session musician.
[2] Pépin first moved to Montreal at age 17 to pursue work in the music industry.
[3] Although a francophone, he was more interested in pursuing stardom in the much larger English-language market than in limiting himself to the French language music scene in Quebec, and worked with Bill Sweetman and Geoff Hughes to write and record English language songs.
[3] He signed to Alert Records, and under the stage name Michael Breen he released a self-titled album on the label in 1987.
[2] Pépin never released another album as a solo artist, although he continued in the music business as a session guitarist for artists such as Luba,[9] Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Sarah McLachlan, Martha Wainwright, Emmylou Harris and Jean Leloup.