Pierre Brabant

[2] Brabant was born in Montreal, Quebec, he began his studies in piano as a child and gave his first public recital while a teenager.

[2] In the early 1960s Brabant developed an interest in expanding his compositional repertoire into the pop music genre.

One of his earliest forays into this area was the music for Jean-Pierre Ferland's program Feuilles de gui, which was awarded prizes in 1962 from the CBC and in Brussels.

He also composed music for a number of albums for children, including 20 Contes pour enfants par Tante Lucille for RCA.

[2] Brabant served as music director and arranger for several recordings during the 1960s through the 1980s, including ones by Jean-Paul Filion, Hervé Brousseau, Georges Dor and Félix Leclerc.