Stéphane Venne (2 July 1941 – 17 January 2025) was a Canadian singer-songwriter, arranger and record producer.
[1] He also worked as head of production for the Canadian arm of Barclay Records, as a radio station executive, and as a composer of film scores.
[3] He began his songwriting career in the same era, both writing for other artists and recording his own albums as a singer-songwriter, breaking through to popular success when his song "Un jour, un jour" was selected as the official theme song for Expo 67.
[1] As a songwriter he was known particularly for songs performed by artists such as Emmanuëlle, Pierre Lalonde, Renée Claude, Suzanne Stevens and Marie-Élaine Thibert.
[7] In 2019 the song "Tu trouveras la paix" (You Will Find Peace), one of Venne's compositions for Renée Claude, was re-recorded as a charitable supergroup single by Céline Dion, Ginette Reno, Diane Dufresne, Isabelle Boulay, Luce Dufault, Louise Forestier, Laurence Jalbert, Catherine Major, Ariane Moffatt, Marie Denise Pelletier, and Marie-Élaine Thibert, after Claude's diagnosis with Alzheimer's disease was announced.