Biography
Patrick Watson (born October 8, 1979 in Lancaster, California) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Montreal, Quebec, who has formed a band also named Patrick Watson, whose blend of cabaret pop and classical music influences with indie rock has been compared to Rufus Wainwright, Andrew Bird, Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley and Pink Floyd for its experimental musicianship. Patrick Watson's album Close to Paradise was awarded the Polaris Music Prize in 2007. His 2010 song "Je te laisserai des mots" (lit. 'I will leave you some words') has amassed more than 1 billion streams on Spotify, the first French-language song to do so.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Credited work
208 releases · 54 albums · active 1998–2025
- Performance · 814
- Engineering · 160
- Other credits · 90
- Production · 49
Studios: Studio Pierre Marchand · Breakglass Studios · Studio 105 · Chung King Studios
Frequent collaborators
- Patrick Watson (2)
- The Cinematic Orchestra
- Various
- Li'l Andy
- Leonard Cohen
- Lhasa
- Gael Faure
- Charlotte Cardin