Gontier married Naomi Faith Brewer in 2004. Michael Bell handed him the "Big Time Award", at the 2012 "Wire Awards". Gontier has won two BMI pop awards as well as Billboard 's "Rock Single of the Year". In early March 2013, Gontier publicly announced and launched his Adam Gontier Solo Live Tour. Several songs have been released, but not as singles. Gontier continued to do shows and concerts as a solo artist. He also joined Citizen Cope for a few shows as a solo act. Gontier joined singer and songwriter Martin Sexton on the road during his 2012 "Fall Like Rain" tour, providing opening support as a solo artist. On January 24, 2020, Breaking Benjamin released their compilation album, Aurora, that included Gontier on the track "Dance with the Devil". The band released their self-titled, debut album on July 31, 2015. ĭuring 2015, Gontier worked with Staind guitarist Mike Mushok on a supergroup called Saint Asonia. Matt Walst from My Darkest Days, the brother of bassist Brad Walst, became the new lead singer. He left as the band was about to embark on a co-headlining tour. On January 9, 2013, Gontier resigned from Three Days Grace. In 2011, Gontier created the record label, Sludge Factory Records, and has signed three acts, one of which is fellow Peterborough band, Before the Curtain. The song was featured on the physical copy of Daughtry's Leave This Town: The B-Sides EP. The song, "Back Again", did not make the final cut. In 2009, Adam Gontier worked with Daughtry on their second studio album Leave This Town.
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In 2006, Gontier was a member of the rock supergroup Big Dirty Band along with Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, Jeff Burrows, Ian Thornley and Care Failure, covering "I Fought the Law", as part of the Trailer Park Boys movie soundtrack. His cousin, Cale Gontier, is the bass player for Art of Dying. Gontier was also featured on the track "Raining" by fellow Canadian band Art of Dying on their album Vices and Virtues.
He contributed vocals and musical arrangement on " I Don't Care" on Apocalyptica's album, Worlds Collide in 2007. He has also contributed to a number of other albums. Some of his collaborations include Daughtry, Ian Thornley, Max Martin, Shaun Morgan, Ben Burnley, Art of Dying, Before the Curtain, and fellow musician and long time friends Kevin Brown, Grainne Ryan, and Kim Brown. Outside of Three Days Grace, Gontier has also written and collaborated with numerous writers, musicians and bands. In 1992, he moved to the Norwood area, and attended Norwood District High School, where he met and befriended Three Days Grace members Neil Sanderson and Brad Walst.
Shortly after his parents divorced, he moved back to the Peterborough area, where he initially attended Adam Scott Collegiate and Vocational Institute. Gontier was born in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada on May 25, 1978.