Pierre Charles Bouvier (born May 9, 1979) is a Canadian singer and musician best known for being the lead vocalist and studio bassist of the rock band Simple Plan. Personal life Bouvier was born to Réal and Louise Bouvier. He has two older brothers, Jay and Jonathan. He attended Collège Beaubois in Pierrefonds, Quebec, with bandmates Chuck Comeau, Jeff Stinco, and Sébastien Lefebvre. Before and partly during his early musical career, Bouvier worked as a cook at St-Hubert in Montréal. Bouvier has two daughters, and has been married to Lachelle Farrar since 2013. Career When Bouvier was 13 or 14 years old, he founded the punk rock band Reset with his best friend Chuck Comeau in which he was the bass guitarist and lead vocalist. He was not happy with Reset and left the band in 1999, a year after Comeau's departure in 1998. His former bandmate David Desrosiers took his place as lead vocalist and bass guitarist. He later met Comeau at a Sugar Ray concert and joined him in creating Simple Plan with old schoolmates Desrosiers, Jeff Stinco, and Sébastien Lefebvre. He hosted the MTV reality show Damage Control. Instruments Bouvier is best known for owning a collection of Takamine acoustic guitars which he uses on every album and while playing live. He also owns a few of Fender electric guitars. Since 2020, he also multitasks as bass guitarist and lead singer following departure of David Desrosiers. Filmography Discography With Reset Concerned (Demo, 1995) No Worries (1997) No Limits (1999) With Simple Plan No Pads, No Helmets...Just Balls (2002) Still Not Getting Any... (2004) Simple Plan (2008) Get Your Heart On! (2011) Taking One for the Team (2016) Harder Than It Looks (2022) Collaborations and appearances "It's Not Easy (Being Green)" – MC Lars "Wavin' Flag" – K'naan "True Colors" – Artists Against "Too Little, Too Late" – Faber Drive (2013) "December" – MxPx "Take What You Give" – Silverstein (2020) "NICOTINA" – GionnyScandal (2021) "I Hate Everybody" – Chad Tepper (2021) "my ex" – Chad Tepper (2022) References External links 1979 births Living people 20th-century Canadian bass guitarists 20th-century Canadian male singers 21st-century Canadian bass guitarists 21st-century Canadian male singers Alternative rock guitarists Alternative rock singers Atlantic Records artists Canadian alternative rock musicians Canadian male guitarists Canadian male voice actors Canadian punk rock guitarists Canadian punk rock singers Canadian rock singers French Quebecers Lava Records artists Male