Luke Doucet (born June 9, 1973) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist. He has written and performed as a solo artist and as a member of the indie rock band Veal and the folk rock band Whitehorse.
In 2006 and 2011, Doucet was nominated for Juno Awards in the Adult Alternative Album of the Year category for his albums, Broken (And Other Rogue States) and Steel City Trawler.
Doucet was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and raised in Manitoba. His parents divorced when he was young. When Doucet was six years old, he travelled the Cabot Trail in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia with his father. When he was 11 years old, Doucet travelled solo from Winnipeg to Nova Scotia. And at 13, he took a Greyhound bus from Winnipeg to Vancouver, British Columbia.[1]
Doucet had planned to become a lawyer before deciding to focus on guitar. He got his first guitar later that same year,[2] and played in a blues band with his dad when he was 15.[3] He played in bands throughout high school.
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