Victor Vick

**Victor Vick** (born **Victor Isaac Jobin** on June 29, 1965) is a professional singer and songwriter who rose to fame in the mid eighties with his trio band Vic, Vik, Vick.

## Early Life and Childhood

Victor was born to an Ivorian father and a Québécois mother. From a very young age, he was singing at the local church in Terrebonne, Quebec.

Victor continued singing and eventually won a province wide title of “Mr. Talent” in 1977. In 1982, he started a trio band with two of his high school friends, Bilal Coulon and J.L. Daniele.

## Professional career

In 1983, the trio scores their first record deal from a music company in Toronto. They ended up releasing their first album “VBJ” in December of 1983. This album had poor promotion and ended up costing more than what was used to make it, but the band did not get discouraged. They released their sophomore album “Love Is The Air” in May of 1985, which became a smash hit album worldwide with singles like, “Secrets”, “Heart of Mine”, “Funny Bone”, and “Love Is The Air”. Before they knew it, the band was doing worldwide touring.

In August 1989, the trio released their third and unfortunately final album, “All We Want Is Fun”, which strayed from the group’s usual sultry and slow music. This album produced three top 10 singles lasting well into the 90s. In early 1990, the group went on a smaller countrywide tour in Canada and were easily one of the top performers from Canada.

### Fire and Hiatus

After completing the countrywide tour in August 1990, the trio would settle back in to the Montreal metro area and begin brainstorming for their fourth album.

On September 3, 1990, two of the three group members (Bilal and J.L.) would be involved in a fiery car crash in rural Quebec. Unfortunately, both men died at the scene. After receiving the tragic news about his band mates deaths, Victor sunk into a very deep depression. Just a month later on October 19, 1990, Victor’s father would pass away suddenly of a heart attack. After this, Victor began dabbling with drugs to cope with the losses, however, this addiction would be short lived as in 1993, he finally released the band’s final album, “In Memories” which paid tribute to his late band members. This album would flop due to the fact that it was incomplete which sent Victor down another dark path. He attempted suicide in January 1994, but failed. After this, he went off the radar from 1994 to 2009 only releasing singles every other year or so.

### Resurgence

In November of 2009, Victor announced that he was working on his debut solo album which was slated to be released the following year. The album however did not release until 2013 due to issues with the record label. This experience caused Victor to sever ties with the label, and he signed with Crooners Records in Boston. From 2014-2019, he ended up releasing three more albums which all were extremely popular across North America and Europe. Victor’s reignited fame reopened doors for him, as he went on a world tour in 2019. Due to Covid, the tour ended 3 months early in April 2020. He ended up semiretired until the following year when he got a Las Vegas residency, where he still performs to this day.

## Personal Life

Victor has been married since 2015 to Dominican-Canadian model Xara Costas (born 1979). They share two children, Victor Jr (born 2016) and Novel (born 2021).