With “Gentleman Cambrioleur”, Garou reinvents the cover album and indulges in one of the greatest diversions of his career. Three years after his last performance in Luxembourg, the Canadian is returning for one of the most astounding shows!

“I made this recording rather as if I were a thief who had entered a museum to steel an old Bécaud, but whose torch suddenly shines on a Madonna … and who leaves with that Madonna instead!” With that sentence, Garou seems to have found the perfect way to explain what he is doing, and at the same time, an absolutely delightful metaphor!

“Gentleman Cambrioleur”, the Canadian’s latest album, is therefore an album of cover songs. That may well be so, but it is an album which the artist wanted to make “in his own way”, that is to say it is updated and disconnected. So that is why there is a meeting or even a collision of sometimes unlikely titles like “New Year’s Day” by U2, “Les Champs-Elysées” by Joe Dassin and even “Da Ya Think I’m Sexy” by Rod Stewart!

Shelving the clichés and stereotypes of this standard genre, Garou becomes free to immerse himself in his youth and his memories of a time when, evening after evening, he sang in bars with his only companion, a simple guitar.

After “Pieces of my Soul”, an album entirely in English released in 2008, Garou again confuses the issue with this incredible “Gentleman Cambrioleur”… at the same time proving that it will be decidedly difficult to pin a label on him!

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