Pierre Bouvier


Pierre Charles Bouvier is a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, composer and actor who is best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band Simple Plan.

Personal life

Bouvier was born to Réal and Louise Bouvier. He has two older brothers, Jay and Jonathan. He attended Collège Beaubois in Pierrefonds, Quebec, with bandmates Chuck Comeau, Jeff Stinco, and Sébastien Lefebvre. Before and partly during his early musical career, Bouvier worked as a cook at St-Hubert in Montréal. Bouvier has two daughters, and has been married to Lachelle Farrar since 2013.

Career

When Bouvier was 13 or 14 years old, he founded the punk rock band Reset with his best friend Chuck Comeau in which he was the bass guitarist and lead vocalist. He was not happy with Reset and left the band in 1999, a year after Comeau's departure in 1998. His current bandmate David Desrosiers took his place as lead vocalist and bass guitarist. He later met Comeau at a Sugar Ray concert and joined him in creating Simple Plan with old schoolmates David Desrosiers, Jeff Stinco and Sébastien Lefebvre.
He hosted the MTV reality show Damage Control.

Instruments

Bouvier is best known for owning a collection of Takamine acoustic guitars which he uses in every album and while playing live. He also owns a few of Fender electric guitars.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2003What's New, Scooby-Doo?Himself Also performed the theme song with Simple Plan
2003The New Tom Green ShowHimself1 episode
2003A Big Package for YouHimself
2004New York MinuteHimself
2004Punk Rock HolocaustHimself
2005Damage ControlHimselfHost
2011Canada SingsHimself

Discography

With Reset