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Mainly singer, also broadcaster and actor.

In 2011-2012, he made his "farewell tour" on the occasion of his 50-year music career.

He surprised by starring alongside Danielle Ouimet in L'initiation , an erotic film by Denis Héroux which followed the very controversial Valérie .

In 1962 and 1963, he worked at the news service of the radio station CJMS. During the same period, he took part in a number of music and entertainment shows as an amateur singer and caught the attention of a number of producers. In the 1960s, he recorded a number of successful singles at the same time hosting his first television broadcasts.

After his secondary education, he completed his university studies at Université de Montréal majoring in Social Science. At the same time he studied singing and theatre acting.

He also hosted shows in Télé-Métropole and Télévision Quatre-Saisons known as TQS.

He was also involved in charity telethons for more than a decade between 1977 and 1988 in favour of the Canadian Cerebral Palsy Association.

His discography contained a dozen albums and almost 40 hit singles.

He acted in three plays, Vacances pour Jessica in 1969 and Madam Idora in 1971 both with director Henri Norbert and in 1989 in Le grand oui, an adaptation of Ciel de lit with director Marie-Michelle Desrosiers.

Laprade also led a successful career as a radio host on many radio entertainment shows on a number of stations, notably the radio stations CKVL, CKAC, CKLM, CBF, CJMS and CFGL and at the Radio-Canada television network, where he hosted notably a televised game show Le travail à la chaîne from 1972 to 1979.

In October 2023, he married Daniel Arseneault who was his life partner for 50 years.

In 2003, he appeared in the film 100% bio directed by Claude Fortin.

During the 1988 Canadian Federal elections, he ran as a candidate of the Liberal Party of Canada in the riding of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, but failed to be elected.

In 1964, he was named "male discovery of the year" at the Gala des artistes in Quebec.

From 1971 to 1973, he was the director of programming at the radio station CKLM.