Host and cultural journalist Herby Moreau has died at the age of 56

The Quebec prince of red carpets is dead. Host and cultural journalist Herby Moreau died on Sunday at the age of 56. The cause of his death has not been released.

- was able to confirm the news with people close to Mr. Moreau.

He was part of this profession with passion, rigor and in his own way for a very long time.ruled in a message on Facebook the host and ex-artist manager Josélito Michaud, emphasizing his love for the man he knew always.

Tonight is strange. There is a time when he would be on television to present the artists on the red carpet at the dawn of the ADISQ galahe noted, in reference to this high mass of Quebec music, the 46th edition of which is being held this Sunday.

Herby Moreau has in fact hosted the ADISQ pre- and post-gala ceremonies for a long time, as well as those of the Prix Gémeaux. In recent years, he has been more discreet. The profession had put him aside a little or he had put himself aside a littleadded Josélito Michaud in his message.

This lover of show-business made himself known to the general public by walking the red carpets to meet Quebec and international stars, notably as part of his show Star Systembroadcast on TVA.

Passionate about stars and the jet set, this star chaser will have held out his microphone on the sidelines of the biggest artistic events on the planet, such as the Cannes Film Festival and the Oscars Ceremony.

Meeting the artists

Born in Haiti in 1968, Herby Moreau briefly lived in Congo with his parents and two sisters before setting foot in Quebec at the age of 5. His family first settled in the Côte-des-Neiges district of Montreal.

After studying at Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, where he notably met the producer and host Julie Snyder for whom he later worked, Herby Moreau studied communications at the University of Montreal. He then flew to France to pursue studies in journalism.

Upon his return to the province, Herby Moreau took his first steps on television, notably as a journalist for the cultural review Flash on the TQS channel. He never left the small screen after that, finding himself at the helm of a variety of shows. He notably hosted the Auditions Star Academyat TVA, and the artistic magazine District Von the now defunct channel V.

From his countless encounters on the world's red carpets, he drew the book Glamor and faux pas in 2014, in which he revealed secrets and anecdotes about his meetings with Céline Dion, Madonna and even George Clooney.

Since I arrived more than 20 years ago, it has always been this little light that we have to go see, commented Inuit singer-songwriter Elisapie Isaac, on the sidelines of the ADISQ gala on Sunday. . I was impressed by the cultural vitality of Quebec and for me, Herby is a great one who is part of the way we consume the arts […] Nakurmik (merci).

He had a way of making you feel like he was giving the best interview of his career, even if you were the latest arrival on the music scene. He had a way of putting his guest forward, confided singer Jonathan Painchaud, who also met at the ADISQ gala alongside members of the group Salebarbes.

I am deeply upset, my heart is in pieces. […] You're leaving way too soonfor her part wrote in a publication on X, the Minister of Higher Education, Pascale Déry.

I'm in shock. He was our neighbor in Old Montreal. The class he had on the red carpets also translated to the streets of our neighborhooddeclared liberal MP Marwah Rizqy on the X platform, offering her condolences to the family and loved ones of the host.

With information from Élise Jetté