Diane Dufresne is a central figure in the culture of Quebec and of the French-speaking world at large. The combination of her artistic skills is quite unique: singing, stage performance, writing and painting. At the end of the 1960’s, after a few years spent in France (at the Écluse notably) studying and learning her craft, she came back to Quebec where she started her career as a singer. She was then heard interpreting movie theme songs, and also appeared in Clémence Desrochers’ musical review Les Girls. In 1972, she went through a radical transformation which propelled her as one of the leading figures of Quebec’s musical scene in the seventies. Her international career really took off at that time with the help of François Cousineau and Luc Plamondon. Their trio authored about fifty songs, among which J’ai rencontré l’homme de ma vie (I just met the man of my life).

In 1978 (or around that time), Diane Dufresne played up her presence on stage, creating large-scale shows. She took part in the early versions of Starmania. At the same time, she collected numerous individual successes with her own songs: J’ai douze ans (I’m Twelve), Alys en cinémascope (Alys in CinemaScope), Hymne à la beauté du monde (Hymn to the World’s Beauty), Oxygène and Samedi soir (Saturday Evening). During the following decade, she completed her spectacular lifework with huge shows such as Hollywood/Halloween, Magie rose (Pink Magic) in Montreal’s Olympic Stadium for audiences of up to 60,000 people and Symphonique & Roll. At the beginning of the 1990’s, with her album Détournement majeur (Major Diversion), she started writing her own songs.

In January 2001, her collaboration with Quebec’s Symphonic Orchestra called Couleurs symphoniques enabled her to blend her own two privileged forms of expression: performing arts and painting… In 2002, her tour called « En liberté conditionnelle » (On Parole) was extremely successful.

During the fall of 2007, she released her 25^th album, Effusions and in 2011 performed «Diane Dufresne et les Violons du Roy » (Diane Dufresne and the King’s Violins) throughout Quebec.