Yann Perreau released his solo debut album in 2002, Western Romance (Rapsat-Lelièvre prize at the Francofolies de Spa, Félix-Leclerc prize at the FrancoFolies de Montréal, Mirror prize at the Festival d’été de Québec). In 2005, he released the album Nucléaire and the DVD / live album Perreau et la Lune, for which he won the “Show Direction of the Year” award at the 2007 ADISQ. His album Un serpent sous les fleurs, released in 2009, is still to this day his biggest popular and critical success. He also took part in the Douze Hommes Rapaillés collective, in homage to the late poet Gaston Miron, with whom he recorded two albums and performed many concerts. After the 2012 release of his previous album À genoux dans le désir, composed of unpublished works by Claude Péloquin, the singer-songwriter returned to his own writing.
Released in April 2016, his fifth album, Le fantastique des astres, was created in the heat of the moment as both a joyful celebration of life as well as a middle finger to modern world cynicism.
A singer, songwriter and notorious showman, Perreau is also a stage director, actor, poet and owner of the Studio Chenapan in Montreal.