Pierre Bouvier
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Pierre Charles Bouvier (born 9 May 1979)[1] is a Québécois musician, who is best known as the lead singer for the Canadian pop punk band Simple Plan.
Biography
Before and partly during his musical career, Bouvier worked in a restaurant called St-Hubert in his hometown of Montreal as a cook. At age 13, he founded the punk rock band Reset with his schoolmate Chuck Comeau, in which he was the lead singer and bassist.
Dissatisfied with the artistic direction of the band, Bouvier helped establish Simple Plan, of which he is the front man and lead singer and is, along with Comeau, a principal songwriter for the band. Additionally, Bouvier was the band's original bassist until the position was yielded to David Desrosiers, when he later joined the band.
In live performance, he sometimes plays the guitar (electric and acoustic) for certain songs. He also hosted a show on MTV called Damage Control, which has since ended its run as originally planned.
Role Model Clothing
He is co-owner of Role Model Clothing, along with Chuck Comeau and Simple Plan's webmaster, photographer, and videographer Patrick Langlois.
Role Model Clothing is a clothing line owned by Bouvier, Langlois and Chuck Comeau (who are often seen wearing the shirts on stage and in the band's music videos). The line mostly markets shirts, which invariably include the words "ROLE MODEL" in the design. Erik Chandler, from the band Bowling for Soup, is often seen wearing a Role Model shirt. In the illustration in this article, Bouvier wears a Role Model shirt.
Damage Control
Damage Control was a reality television series hosted by Bouvier that first aired on MTV on March 6, 2005. On Damage Control, parents would tell their teenage son or daughter that they would be going away over the weekend, but in actuality, they are just a few houses down monitoring them with Bouvier via hidden cameras and microphones. The teenager would be placed in awkward situations, in which he/she must make decisions. Parents can earn money if they can guess what their teenager will do, and after the parents come back (always with too little time for the teenager to conceal what has occurred), the teenager, still unaware of the filming, can earn money by confessing. Two seasons were filmed before any episodes aired, and no more were planned or filmed, due to the likelihood that once the episodes aired, potential subjects would quickly catch on to what was going on.
Personal life
He attended College Beaubois, a high school in Montreal along with other band members Sébastien Lefebvre, Jeff Stinco and Chuck Comeau (but not David Desrosiers).
The song "Save You" on the album titled Simple Plan is about his brother Jay, who struggled with lymphoma cancer. His brother has since gone into remission.
He is engaged to long time love Lachelle Farrar. The couple have a dog named delilah together, she's named after the plain white t's song. The song I can wait forever was written about Lachelle.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| What's New, Scooby-Doo? | Himself (voice) | 1 episode | |
| 2003 | The New Tom Green Show | Himself | 1 episode |
| Simple Plan: A Big Package for You | Himself | ||
| 2004 | New York Minute | Himself | |
| Simple Plan: Still Not Getting Any... | Himself | ||
| 2005 | Damage Control | Himself | Host |
| Simple Plan: MTV Hard Rock Live | Himself | ||
| 2008 | Simple Plan: Simple Plan | Himself |