Became famous with his role as Quasimodo in the comedy Notre Dame de Paris in 1997, Garou now lives in a house nestled in the forest by a lake in Canada. One of the performers of the title Belleoriginally from Sherbrooke in Quebec, returned to his land and was able to invest in a vast property thanks to the incredible success of the show inspired by Victor Hugo's novel.
It's been several years since the singer went green sincehe moved before the covid-19 lockdown as he revealed during an interview with Belgian journalists from RTL info : “I confined myself before confinement because I spent a lot of time in a forest that I bought. I make my own maple syrup, I know it's cliché. I make my own maple syrup, cut down trees, I reinvigorate the forest, we renovated an old barn that was going to fall down to make a studio“.
I asked the architects to build a studio
Comfortably installed in the depths of the Canadian forest, Emelie's dad (the fruit of his union with the Swedish model Ulrika) was able to put money aside to invest in this new life far from the hustle and bustle of the city. Moreover, he nicknamed his home the “Notre-Dame house“. “I'm a big freak. So, I asked the architects to build a studio without parallel walls to prevent sound from bouncing. And the walls of each room are separated by felt so as not to transmit vibrations” confided Lorie's ex to Parisian in 2008.
Garou invested in a sugar shack
In the countryside, Garou has a busy life since he gets up at dawn to go for a walk in nature but also to make his own maple syrup. “From 6 a.m. in the morning I want to go to the forest. I can spend the day there and I'm happy there. Right now, I can't take it anymore because I know that on Sunday, I'm getting on my snowmobile, I'm going to go groom the trails, cut down the trees that have fallen and then see the work on the cabin, because I'm building a sugar shack, the place where we make maple syrup. So I'm going to become one maple farmer from spring when the sap will flow. I'm going to make my syrup” he revealed to RTBF in 2019.
