This article examines the diaphanous career of a few boys described as “musicians” and singers in the sources relating to Nouvelle-France. The bits of information that have been collected on these young men with no history make it possible to identify some of the motivations that led them to the colonies between 1660 and 1730, at a time when everything had yet to be built, if not consolidated, on the institutional level. Beyond this aspect, which is still little known in colonial cultural micro-history, the catalytic role of the army and the Church as a path to salvation for these former masters in search of a future after leaving the cathedral or collegiate churches of France is revealed. Whether they aspired to become ecclesiastics or sought to integrate the workings of the colonial administration as writers after being emancipated from the army, the few individuals we will meet in Quebec City and Montreal allow us to discreetly lift the veil on the fortunes of some of these children who spent their youth singing in the lower choirs, and thus to better understand their contribution to the cultural life of the French colony in Canada.