 Duguay is a longtime supporter of the Quebec sovereignty movement and has run for public office on at least two occasions.Duguay was born in Val-d'Or in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec, an event that he later chronicled on the semi-autobiographical track "La bittt à Tibi" on his first album.He began writing poetry in the 1950s, and his first two anthologies were published in 1966 and 1967.