[1] In 1959, she successfully auditioned to become a hostess on the television show La Poule aux oeufs d'or,[1] which became a gateway to the artistic field in Quebec.

In 1960, she received a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, which allowed her to spend two years singing in New York City.

In 2009, the Order of Canada introduced: For more than 50 years, Suzanne Lapointe has held a special place in the artistic community and in the heart and soul of Quebec society.

Notably, she co-hosted the daily show, "Les Démons du Midi", which had almost all of Quebec glued to the television between noon and one o’clock.

Involved in a number of causes, she is a member of the board of the Fondation de l’Hôpital régional de Saint-Jérôme, has led fundraising campaigns and has travelled all across Quebec as a spokesperson for the breast cancer screening program.Without children and a widow of Pierre Larin[2] for about twenty years, but surrounded by her four surviving sisters (Louise, Andrée, Claire and Isabelle)[2] and their children, she was suffering from Alzheimer's disease for a few years before she died from lymphoma[4] on 2 January 2015[1] at a retirement home[2] in Sainte-Adèle where she lived for four months.