Welcome to the first video of our new Top Secrets series! In these videos, songwriters who’ve earned a No. 1 spot on the ADISQ BDS & Correspondants charts – celebrated by a SOCAN No. 1 Song Award – tell us the secrets behind their hits.
Just as Franco-Ontarian Michel Bénac of the combo LGS just released two songs (“#Bizness” and “Toutes sexy”), he dropped by SOCAN, and we took the opportunity to ask him about his two previous No. 1s, which he co-wrote with John Nathaniel (published by Purple Hive Music Publishing and John Nathaniel Productions Inc.), “Thirsty,” (No. 1 BDS & Correspondants) and “On perd la tête” (No. 1 BDS). The band wasn’t expecting this success, and had even announced it was breaking up, just before commercial radio flung its doors wide open. That put their retirement plans on ice, needless to say…