Simple Plan Foundation

In Montreal, on December 2005 Simple Plan announced the creation of the Simple Plan Foundation.

The foundation focuses on teen problems ranging from suicide to poverty to drug addiction.

The foundation believes that the practice of music can be helpful for kids to find a passion in life, keeping them away from street gangs and criminality, and preventing school dropping.

The band’s members are aware of the problems faced by teenagers.  They are even more familiar with these problems as they are in constant touch with their fan base.

The Simple Plan Foundation has made its first donations in 2008. They raised $100 000, and gave it to different charities organizations. Since then they have been giving money to charities every year. And every year amount of money is bigger. In 2011 and 2012 it was more than $300 000.

Since 2008, it’s a total of $700 000 that has been donated.

In 2012, to mark the band’s tenth anniversary, the book Simple Plan: The Official Story was released, which was used as a fundraiser for the Simple Plan Foundation.

The Simple Plan Foundation is primarily constituted by the band members,since their profession requires them to travel often, they have set up a managing committee to look after the day to day activities and report to them regularly.The members of the Board of directors and the collaborators are all volunteers, so, the donations are entirely devoted to the charities supported by the foundation

Simple Plan foundation

Jeff Stinco

Jean-François “Jeff” Stinco is a French-Canadian and half Italian musician, who is best known as the lead guitarist Simple Plan.

He was born on August 22, 1978. in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He has a Daughter born in 2007.

He got the nickname “Jeff” when his friends decided to call him “JF” for short since many of his English friends couldn’t pronounce his name.

Stinco attended College Beaubois High School in Pierrefonds, Quebec along with bandmates Sébastien Lefebvre, Chuck Comeau and Pierre Bouvier.

He studied classical guitar for 10 years and he was a  guitar teacher.

Beside his Simple Plan projects, Stinco also contributed to the Rush tribute CD released in 2005 titled Subdivisions: “A Tribute To Rush”” and performs on the Rush hit “The Spirit of Radio”.

He is owner of restaurant  Mangiafoco in Old Montreal.

“When you care about something very much, you need to put every single cell of your body in action to make it happen. Hope, dream, gratitude.”

“A life without music would be like a life in black and white.”

Jeff Stinco

 

Chuck Comeau

Charles-André “Chuck”  Comeau  is a French Canadian musician, who is best known as the drummer for Simple Plan.

He was born on September 17, 1979. in Montreal, Canada.

Comeau started his music career in Reset with Pierre Bouvier. After the band’s first CD was released, Comeau left the band and went to McGill University to pursue a degree in law.

Bu, after reuniting with Bouvier at a Sugar Ray concert, he soon left school and helped Bouvier to form Simple Plan.

He plays drums, does most of the lyrics, writes all the concepts, and writes the scripts to Simple Plan’s music videos.

Chuck was a judge for the 7th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists’ careers. And he was a writer for a music magazine.

He co-owns a clothing company called Rolemodel Clothing along with Pierre Bouvier and Patrick Langlois.

“It’s not about looking perfect and dressing the right way, it’s about going on stage and singing your heart out.”

Chuck Comeau

David Desrosiers

David Phillipe Desrosiers is a French Canadian musician, who is best known as the bassist and backing vocalist for Simple Plan.

He was born on August 29, 1980. In Sept-Îles, Quebec, Canada, and raised in Matane, Quebec.

He is the only member of Simple Plan who did not attend College Beaubois High School.And he joined band 1 year after it was formed. It was rumored that the rest of the guys from Simple Plan stalked David until he joined the band.

He has briefly played the drums and bass guitar for bands such as The Used, Vendetta Red, Green Day, Good Charlotte, and MxPx.

He guest-starred on television show The Naked Brothers Band.

 “Do whatever you want to do, and don’t care what people think, if you do, you’ll be miserable.”

David Phillipe Desrosiers

Sebastien Lefebvre

Sebastien Lefebvre is French Canadian musician and producer, best known as guitarist and backup-vocalist for band called Simple Plan.

He was born on June 5, 1981. in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

He says that he learned how to play the guitar by copying the hand movements of Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day.

He has done some solo projects. During early 2009 Lefebvre recorded an acoustic EP entitled “You Are Here/Vous Etes Ici.” His first single was “I fall for you”, Video for that song was produces by Chuck Comeau. Lefebvre has also released songs on his Myspace page, mostly covers.

He has also recorded and released another solo EP, called Les Robots, in 2011.

Sebastien’s been hosting “The Man of the Hour” on IDOBI radio with Patrick Langlois since august 2006. Man of the hour is an hour-long music entertainment show, which they fill up with fun, facts and the best new music.

“Sometimes you look for answers before knowing the question.”

Sebastien Lefebvre

 

Pierre Bouvier

Pierre Charles Bouvier is musician and composer who is best known as the lead singer for Simple Plan.

He was born on May 9, 1979.  in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He has two brothers, Jay and Jonathah. His parents are Real and Louise Bouvier.

In 2013, Bouvier married his long term girlfriend Lachelle Farrar. They have one daughter, Lennon Rose, named after The Beatles star John Lennon.

He started his singing career at age of 13 by forming the punk rock band Reset with his best friend Chuck Comeau, in which he was the bassist and lead vocalist. In 1999 he left the band, a year after Chuck left it, and they started band called Simple Plan with Sebastien Lefebve and Jeff Stinco. One year later David Desrosiers joined them.

He can play guitar, drums, bass, piano and percussions. He wrote the song “Save You” for his brother Jay when he was battling cancer.

Chuck Comeau, Patrick Langlois and Bouvier are co-owners of Role Model Clothing.

Pierre is also a television personality, he hosted a reality show on MTV called Damage Control. He was a celebrity guest on Canada Sings.

Bouvier recorded 4 albums with Simple Plan, and released his debut solo Wavin’ Flag in 2010. He has been an active member of the music industry since 1993.

Quotes by Pierre:

“You have to see the darker side of someone before you can say that you really know them.”

“Don’t be afraid of death, but most importantly, don’t be afraid to live.”

“I love what I do so much, and they will never stop me from doing it! No matter how loud they scream I will scream louder”“Do what you wanna do and don’t change for anyone.”

Simple Plan is a French-Canadian pop-punk band from Montréal, Québec.Simple Plan’s style of music is pop punk.

Simple Plan began in 1993 with the formation of a band named Reset. Reset toured around Canada with bands such as MXPX, Ten Foot Pole and Face to Face, but only managed to gain modest popularity. The debut album, No Worries No Limits, was released in 1997, and Comeau left soon after. Two years later he met with high school friends Jeff Stinco and Sébastien Lefebvre and created Simple Plan. In1999 Bouvier left Reset soon after to join Simple Plan. They performed at the Vans Warped Tour every year from 1999–2005, in 2011 and in 2013.

Simple Plan was formed in 1999. and his lineup hasn’t been changed since then. Members include Pierre Bouvier (lead vocals), Jeff Stinco (lead guitar), Sébastien Lefebvre (rhythm guitar, backing vocals), David Desrosiers (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Chuck Comeau (drums and percussion).

They have released five studio albums:

No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls (2002), Still Not Getting Any… (2004), Simple Plan (2008) and Get Your Heart On! (2011), Get Your Heart On Second Coming! (2014).

Simple Plan is strongly connected to What’s new, Scooby–Doo?They perform the theme song (written by Rich Dickerson), and appeared as themselves in the episode “Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman”. Two of their songs appeared in chase scenes: “I’d Do Anything” in the episode “It’s Mean, It’s Green, It’s the Mystery Machine”, and “You Don’t Mean Anything” in “Simple Plan and the Invisible Madman”.

Some of their most famous songs:

Simple plan as guest of Hoppus on music

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