We had to wait for the third album by Daniel, that one song pushed him to the top of the charts - «La danse du Smatte».

Daniel: It's about disillusioned guy who is fed up with it all, that nothing ever happens, and of course that was me. I wrote this song in the La Fontaine park one day in a deep existential crisis. I remember I had a pen and a paper, I sat down and wrote «La danse du Smatte», leaning against a tree in La Fontaine park. And it has become a kind of lighthouse for this album. I think it was definitely the time when my turn finally came, because before it was very difficult. It was always necessary that you're looking for musicians, for everybody, because you could not pay them, it was not easy.

Gilles Boulet: I know that he was just finishing Nirvana. As far as I remember he lived in an apartment on Jeanne-Mance street. This is recalled very clearly, as well as the fact that times were difficult.Mark Peryuss: When «Nirvana Bleu» was released, it became very popular. I think it was the album that put him on the map.

Marie-Christine Bleu: When Daniel Lavoie has released «Nirvana Bleu» there was even a time when what he was doing was very different from what the others were doing. Of course, he sang about love, but also about finding yourself and so on, about the country, the search, the winter, and all other things. It was really weird, we did not know how to treat him.Daniel Lavoie: It wasn`t such a hit with «Nirvana Bleu». People remember very well about it, because it was a beautiful album, which fit the time well, and which might have been ... was very different from what the others wrote at that time.