Pierre Charles Bouvier MSC (born 9 May 1979) is a Canadian singer and musician, best known for being the lead vocalist and studio bassist of the rock band Simple Plan.[1]

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Pierre Bouvier
Bouvier performing with Simple Plan in Beijing in 2012
Background information
Birth name	Pierre Charles Bouvier
Born	(1979-05-09) 9 May 1979 (age 43) Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Genres	Pop punk alternative rock pop rock emo punk rock power pop
Occupation(s)	Musician singer songwriter
Instrument(s)	Vocals bass guitar percussion
Years active	1993–present
Labels	Lava Atlantic
Member of	Simple Plan
Formerly of	Reset Artists Against Bullying
Spouse	Lachelle Farrar ​ (m. 2013)​
Children	2

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.^{[citation needed]}

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 former 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 Desrosiers, Jeff Stinco, and Sébastien Lefebvre.

He hosted the MTV reality show Damage Control.[2][3]

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. Since 2020, he also multitasks as bass guitarist and lead singer following departure of David Desrosiers.

Filmography

Discography

With Reset

• Concerned (Demo, 1995)
• No Worries (1997)
• No Limits (1999)

With Simple Plan

• No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls (2002)
• Still Not Getting Any... (2004)
• Simple Plan (2008)
• Get Your Heart On! (2011)
• Taking One for the Team (2016)
• Harder Than It Looks (2022)

Collaborations and appearances

• "It's Not Easy (Being Green)" – MC Lars
• "Wavin' Flag" – K'naan
• "True Colors" – Artists Against
• "Too Little, Too Late" – Faber Drive (2013)
• "December" – MxPx
• "Take What You Give" – Silverstein (2020)
• "NICOTINA" – GionnyScandal (2021)
• "I Hate Everybody" – Chad Tepper (2021)
• "my ex" – Chad Tepper (2022)

References

External links

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