Performance

Monthly Listeners

Current

17.62 %
0 less streams than the last month

Followers

Current

0.69 %
0 less streams than the last month

Streams

Current

11.28 %
0 less streams than the last month

Tracks

Current

Popularity

Current

Top Releases

View All

Blues Turn

114.9K streams

114,863

La

106.9K streams

106,859

Traces & Scars

77.9K streams

77,874

Eldorado

62.2K streams

62,217

Crossroads

48.3K streams

48,308

Voyages (& autres histoires)

45.6K streams

45,603

Guy Bélanger

26K streams

26,004

Dusty Trails

20.7K streams

20,713

Gaz bar blues (Bande originale du film...

Les mauvaises herbes

Biography

As early as 1974 Guy Bélanger's musical career was heading towards traditional Southern blues. Armed with his harmonica belt, thriving music scene in Quebec City Canada. Over the next few years he would soak up the influences of such blues greats as Muddy Waters, Koko Taylor, Big Mama Thornton, James Cotton and eastern Canada's own Dutch Mason. Collaboration with more than 60 Quebec and French artists soon followed. He also participated on 3 projects (Nuba, Wintuk and Viva Elvis!) for Cirque Du Soleil. Guy hooked up with guitarist Claude Fradette in 2003 to record the soundtrack for the film "Gas Bar Blues" which won a Jutra for Best Film Score. Guy and Claude are the team behind the music of the Louis Bélanger film "The Timekeeper" (2009) as well as numerous television scores since then. Guy was awarded a second Jutra for Best Musical Score in Louis Bélanger's 2011 film "Route 132". Soloist this time, with the music of the film Les Mauvaises Herbes by the same filmmaker in 2016. He will also join Céline Dion's Quebec tour in the summer of 2016 as a special guest! The first album released under his own stewardship received wide critical acclaim in 2008. This was followed by his second album "Crossroads" in 2010, "Dusty Trails" (2012) "Blues Turn" (2014), and now "Traces & Scars" in march 2017. To date, Guy Bélanger has won 2 times the prestigious "Harmonica Player of the Year" in Canada presented at the Maple Blues Awards in Toronto in January 2014 and January 2018!