Rick Allison (born Éric Vleminckx, born July 17, 1964,^[1] in Brussels) is a Belgian-born Canadian^[1] singer, author and record producer.

Biography

In 1990, Allison met singer Lara Fabian in a piano-bar in Brussels. They started writing their first songs together and went to Montréal in 1991 to work on Fabian's first album.^[2] This record came out in 1991 in Canada and was a huge commercial success. Allison produced Fabian's following francophone albums Carpe Diem, Pure and Nue, all of which performed very well and spawned several hit singles in Canada and French-speaking Europe. He also worked on her first English-language album Lara Fabian.^[3]

For the Eurovision Song Contest in 2002, Allison wrote the music for the French entry, "Il faut du temps" by Sandrine François.^[2] That same year, he contributed three songs on Johnny Hallyday's album À la vie, à la mort, including the single Pense à moi.

Allison had another major success when he produced Chimène Badi's debut album Entre nous in 2003. The single of the same name topped the French Singles Chart.^[4] Later on he worked with other young female singers, including Nolwenn Leroy, Julie Zenatti and Élodie Frégé.

In 2004, Allison and Fabian, who had been a couple in real life, broke up and also ended their professional relationship.^[5] This was followed by a series of legal battles over the use of the copyright of Fabian's songs.^[6] Allison also contributed five songs to Chimène Badi's hit album Dis-moi que tu m'aimes and worked on two songs Michel Sardou's album Du plaisir.^[7]

Since, he has composed songs for several French and French-Canadian singers such as Gino Quilico, Vincent Niclo, Marc-André Fortin, Suzie Villeneuve and Magalie Vaé, for whom he produced the album Magalie in 2006.^[7]

In 2004, Allison won the International Achievement Award with co-writer Lara Fabian at the Francophone SOCAN Awards in Montreal.^[8]

• 1991: The eponymous 1991 album of Lara Fabian released by Allison along with single Qui pense à l'amour?
• 1993: Écris moi and Quelle heure est-il à Montréal in the album Pourquoi tu pars of Nancy Martinez
• 1995: Album Carpe Diem of Lara Fabian released by Allison
• 1996: Album Pure of Lara Fabian released by Allison along with singles Tout, Humana, Je t'aime, Si tu m’aimes and La différence
• 1998: Album Prends-moi of Patrick Fiori released by Allison along with singles Elle est and J’en ai mis du temps
• 1999: Single De la peau for Sandy Valentino, written with Lara Fabian
• 1999: Album Lara Fabian Live
• 1999: Album Chaque feu of Roch Voisine along with the single Et si
• 2001: Album Nue of Lara Fabian released by Allison along with the singles J'y crois encore, Immortelle, Aimer déjà et Tu es mon autre
• 2001: Duo Et maintenant by Lara Fabian and Florent Pagny for the album 2 of the last
• 2002: Music for the song Il faut du temps of Sandrine François, in collaboration with Patrick Bruel ( which has been the song for the contestant from France for the Eurovision song contest)
• 2002: Single Le jour J for Thibault Durand
• 2002: Six songs for the album Ange et étrange of Élisa Tovati including the music for the single J'avance (in collaboration with Pierre Ruben)
• 2002: Three songs for the album À la vie, à la mort of Johnny Hallyday including the single Pense à moi
• 2003: Single Quelque chose pour quelqu’un of Damien Sargue
• 2003: Album Entre nous for Chimène Badi along with singles Entre nous and Si j'avais su t'aimer
• 2003: Song Inévitablement for Nolwenn Leroy in her album Nolwenn
• 2003: His own album Je suis un autre by Rick Allison
• 2004: Five songs in the album A Wonderful Life of Lara Fabian
• 2004: Song Moins de toi d'Élodie Frégé in her eponymous album
• 2004: Song L'âge que j'ai for Julie Zenatti in her album Comme vous
• 2004: Song Dis-moi moi pourquoi d'Audrey de Montigny in his album Audrey
• 2004: Songs La vie, la mort, etc. and J'aurais voulu t'aimer in the album Du plaisir of Michel Sardou
• 2004: Five songs in the album Dis-moi que tu m'aimes of Chimène Badi
• 2004: Album Un jour, une nuit of Gino Quilico
• 2005: Songs En toi and Si je te parle de moi in the album Non négociable of Marie Chantal Toupin
• 2006: Album Magalie of Magalie Vaé with the single Je ne suis qu'une chanson
• 2006: Ten songs for the album Un nom sur mon visage of Vincent Niclo
• 2006: Song Je reviens sur terre in the album Mon cœur est une pomme of Ariane Gauthier
• 2007: Song Je demande à la vie in the eponymous album of Marc-André Fortin
• 2008: Eight songs for the eponymous album of Suzie Villeneuve^[9]
• 2010: He releases the album Hit's Amore of Vincenzo Thoma also with the clip "Careless Whisper"
• 2012: His album "De l'interieur" includes his compositions which are more intimate
• 2014: He writes lyrics for the song "Le vent et le cri" on the music of Ennio Morricone performed by Romina Arena
• 2015: Producing and writing in collaboration the album of Lola Dargenti released in Canada in April, the single "La libertad" went into Top 5
• 2015: Released the single of Étienne Drapeau "Eres mi reina"
• 2016: He produce and writes two songs for the best-of by Marie-Chantal Toupin, "Merci" and "Derrière soi"
• 2017: He release the album "Una Via" of the Corsican band I Messageri in Bastia in the studio which he managed in the house he was staying in, instant success!
• 2017: He produces and writes the album of Fabrizio Zeva, Italo-belgian artist
• 2017: He produces and writes in collaboration an EP for the american artist, born in Ukraine Dina Layzis
• 2017: Starts the writing for the musical comedy "RISE" in collaboration with Thierry Sforza
• 2018: Song "L'âge que j'ai" with Didier Golemanas in reprise in the album of Petula Clark
• 2018: He released the song "Comme une évidence" for the duo Lynda Lemay and Jean-Charles Wery
• 2018: He released several songs for the new album of Ginette Reno