Luc Plamondon

Luc Plamondon, OC, CQ (b. March 2, 1942 in Saint-Raymond, Quebec), is a French-Canadian lyricist and music executive. He is best known for his work on the musicals Starmania and Notre-Dame de Paris.

He is the brother of Louis Plamondon, a long-serving member of the Canadian House of Commons.

Plamondon has accepted honours from Canadian institutions and is also known as a francophone nationalist and Quebec sovereigntist. He is opposed to Internet music piracy.

Luc Plamondon was born and raised on his father's farm, 50 km northwest of Quebec City in the small rural community of Saint-Raymond-de-Portneuf.

Plamondon’s arts education began at a young age. He learned the piano and undertook classical studies at the Petit Séminaire de Québec.

During his university years, Plamondon wrote musicals and plays. He completed a bachelor's degree in teaching in Quebec. He also pursued literature studies at the Université de Montréal; art history at the Louvre in Paris; and language studies in England, Germany, Spain, and Italy. He also attended a seminary, and later said that he went into it to become a priest and left it a poet. After seeing Hair on Broadway and Three-Penny Opera, Plamondon realized that the musical genre was to be his vocation.

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