Rick Allison

Rick Allison (born Éric Vleminckx, 17 July 1964 in Brussels) is a Belgian-born Canadian 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.

For the Eurovision Song Contest in 2002, Allison wrote the music for the French entry, "Il faut du temps" by Sandrine François. Badi's album Entre nous reached fourth position on the French albums chart and the single of the same name topped the French Singles Chart. Later on he worked with other young female singers, including Nolwenn Leroy, Julie Zenatti and Élodie Frégé.

In March 2003, Allison and Fabian, who had been a couple in real life, broke up and also ended their professional relationship. This was followed by a series of legal battles over the use of the copyright of Fabian's songs. 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.

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.

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 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