Patrick LaCroix, better known by his stage name Pat LaCroix, is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 musician

Musician

A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

 and photographer. His career began with some Canadian TV and radio; but not before he was part of The Four Winds vocal quartet with Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr. is a Canadian singer-songwriter who achieved international success in folk, folk-rock, and country music, and has been credited for helping define the folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s...

 a fellow student at Westlake College of music in Los Angeles. He then formed yet another band, this time with Denny Doherty

Denny Doherty

Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty was a Canadian singer and songwriter. He was most widely known as a founding member of the 1960s musical group The Mamas & the Papas.-Early career:...

, Richard Byrne and Zal Yanovsky

Zal Yanovsky

Zalman "Zal" Yanovsky was a Canadian rock musician. Born in Toronto, he was the son of political cartoonist Avrom Yanovsky. He played lead guitar and sang for the Lovin' Spoonful, a rock band which he founded with John Sebastian in 1964...

 called The Halifax III

The Halifax III

The Halifax Three , originally The Colonials, was a folk music band in Canada in the 1960s. the members of the trio were Denny Doherty, Pat LaCroix and Richard Byrne...

. This group recorded two LP albums for Epic records in New York and performed on several national TV show in Canada and the USA, including Sing Along With Mitch and The Merv Griffon Show In 1965 he began his commercial photographic career, and musically returned to his first love, singing Jazz. He has received more the 60 awards for his photography and in 2008 was awarded The Life time Achievement award by the Canadian Association of Photographers and Illustrators in Communication.

Folk Period

• Magic Circle
  Magic Circle (album)
  The 6th full-length album by Wizard. The last album they did on the label Limb Music.-Track listing:All songs written & arranged by: Wizard#"Enter The Magic Circle" - 1:07#"Fire And Blood" - 5:55#"Call Of The Wild" - 4:49#"Death Is My Life" - 4:37...
  
  
• Halifax III (Album)San Francisco Bay Blues
  San Francisco Bay Blues
  "San Francisco Bay Blues" is an American folk song and is generally considered to be the most famous composition by Jesse Fuller. Fuller first recorded the song in 1954 for a small label called World Song. The song was brought into wider popularity in the early 1960s by club performances by...
  
  
• The Halifax III
  The Halifax III
  The Halifax Three , originally The Colonials, was a folk music band in Canada in the 1960s. the members of the trio were Denny Doherty, Pat LaCroix and Richard Byrne...
  
   (album)
• The Man Who Wouldn't Sing Along With Mitch (single)

Jazz Period

• 2002 - This is All I Ask (date correct?)
• 2005 - The Ballad Artistry of Pat LaCroix

External links

• Official website: http://www.patlacroix.com
• (some links to his photography needed)