Serge Fiori is a Canadian musician and singer-songwriter who is best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the progressive rock band Harmonium. Born on March 4, 1952, in Montreal, Quebec, he began performing with his father's ballroom orchestra and, by the time he was 18, he was already writing his own material. His professional musical career started in the early 1970s, when he co-founded Harmonium with two other musicians, Michel Normandeau and Louis Valois. The band quickly gained popularity in Quebec and released three critically acclaimed LPs that would eventually attain cult status in the French-Canadian rock scene—Harmonium (1974), Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième saison (1975), and L'Heptade (1976). Following the group's breakup in 1978, Serge Fiori teamed up with musician Richard Séguin on the one-off collaborative album Deux cents nuits à l'heure, winning the very first Félix Award for Album of the Year in 1979. Over the next few years, he put his music career on hold to to study meditation, computer science, and composition in Los Angeles. Upon his return to the music industry in the early 1980s, he penned several songs for the likes of Diane Dufresne, Nanette Workman, and stand-up comedian Yvon Deschamps before making his solo debut on the 1986 album Fiori, which spawned hit singles such as "Folle de nuit," "Journal," and "Chasseur." Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, he released the new age albums Gayatri (1994), Maha Mrityunjaya (1994), and Shiva (1995) while also scoring the soundtrack for the feature films Contes pour tous: Mon petit diable (2000), Madame Brouette (2001), and Babine (2008). Serge Fiori, his second studio album, was released in 2014 and won Album of the Year and Best-Selling Album at the ADISQ Gala. It was followed a few years later by Seul Ensemble (2019), a collection of reworked versions of songs he had previously written for the circus company Cirque Eloize.
