Saints And Sinners

Stéphane Dufour, guitarist, producer, and songwriter perhaps best known for his work with his nineties Hard Rock group Saints And Sinners (a Hairbanger’s Hairspray “regular”) who released an excellent debut album. Many years of hard work and dedication led Dufour’s sound to evolve, allowing him the opportunity to unleash his playing, songwriting and producing expertise on his own solo CD, Distortion, which is squarely aimed at music lovers as well as hardcore guitar aficionados. MER: Hello Stéphane! Talk a little about your musical background, your musical influences, etc. Stéphane Dufour: Well first of all thank you very much to you guys, you were the first ones who have shown interest in what I’m doing outside Quebec, and I appreciate that a lot and many thanks to Metal Express Radio. Well, you can say I was almost born with a guitar in my hands, my father was playing, so there was always a guitar laying around. At five, I was following the Beatles on one string because my Dad would break strings and not change them — that was a start! (Laughs) I only took it seriously at 12 and would play along with the radio all day, so my influences back then were anybody! (Laughs) After that, Van Halen came around and that changed my world, to say the least. MER: Some readers might recognize you from your early days in the early nineties “Hair” band, Saints And Sinners. You guys put out a great debut, and then … that was it. Why did the band break up? Were you guys a victim of the “Grunge Movement” even in Canada? Stéphane: The Grunge movement didn’t help, but that wasn’t the real reason. We toured the States, and in a month we sold 50,000 copies and had a good response, but …READ MORE