At age 13, Lavallée performed a piano concert at the Théâtre royal de Montréal. In 1857, he moved to the U.S. and lived in Rhode Island. After performing as a musician in a number of countries, including in Brazil and Mexico, he returned to the U.S., where he enlisted in the 4th Rhode Island Volunteers of the Union Army as a cornet player during the American Civil War. He attained the rank of lieutenant. He was wounded in the Battle of Antietam. During and after the war, he traveled between Canada and the United States building his career in music.
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Calixa Lavallée
Calixa Lavallée | Career
At age 13, Lavallée performed a piano concert at the Théâtre royal de Montréal; Lavallée worked as a pianist, organist and music teacher, and also conducted orchestral and operatic productions in concert halls, including the Montréal Academy of Music in Montréal He was the Union Army band musician during the American Civil War Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context. He returned to Montreal in 1863, and for two years performed concerts there.
when did the lyrics to o canada change
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In 1990, 2002, 2018
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does this song have any relation to the country it is about?
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Yes - 'O Canada' is the national anthem of Canada.
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who is the composer of this song?
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Calixa Lavallée
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where is he from?
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Born near Verchères, Quebec in Canada
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can you name some other works of his apart from the former song?
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Calixa Lavallée (December 28, 1842 – January 21, 1891) was a French-Canadian-American musician and Union Army band musician during the American Civil War. He is best known for composing the music for "O Canada," which officially became the national anthem of Canada in 1980, after a vote in the Senate and the House of Commons. The same 1980 Act of Parliament also changed some of the English lyrics. A slight alteration to the English lyrics was made again in 2018. The original French lyrics and the music, however, have remained unchanged since 1880.
Calixa Lavallée | Introduction
Lavallée began his musical education with his father (Eli Grande), who taught him organ by age 11. Lavallée also studied in Montréal with Paul Letondal and Charles Wugk Sabatier.
Calixa Lavallée | Early life and education
During the later years of his life, Lavallée was the choirmaster at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston, and he died penniless in that city in 1891. As the result of the campaign by the Montréal-based music director of the Victoria's Rifles, Joseph-Laurent Gariépy, his remains were returned to Montréal and reinterred at Côte-des-Neiges Cemetery in 1933.
Calixa Lavallée | Later life and death
At age 13, Lavallée performed a piano concert at the Théâtre royal de Montréal. In 1857, he moved to the U.S. and lived in Rhode Island. After performing as a musician in a number of countries, including in Brazil and Mexico, he returned to the U.S., where he enlisted in the 4th Rhode Island Volunteers of the Union Army as a cornet player during the American Civil War. He attained the rank of lieutenant. He was wounded in the Battle of Antietam. During and after the war, he traveled between Canada and the United States building his career in music.
Calixa Lavallée | Career
Lavallée was born Calixte Paquet dit Lavallée near Verchères, a village near present-day Montreal in the Province of Canada (now the Canadian province of Quebec). He was a descendant of Isaac Pasquier, from Poitou, France, who arrived in Nouvelle-France in 1665 as a soldier in the Carignan-Salières regiment. Lavallée's father Augustin Lavallée, worked as a blacksmith, logger, bandmaster, self-taught luthier and bandleader, and also worked for the pipe organ builder Joseph Casavant. Calixa Lavallée's mother was Charlotte-Caroline Valentine, descendant of James Valentine, a soldier from Montrose, Scotland who married a Quebecer by the name of Louise Leclerc and then settled down in Verchères, Québec.
Calixa Lavallée | Early life and education
Calixa-Lavallée, named for the composer of the same name, is an off-island suburb of Montreal, in southwestern Quebec, Canada, east of Montreal in the Marguerite-D'Youville Regional County Municipality. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 504. On December 6, 2014, Calixa-Lavallée changed from parish municipality to a (regular) municipality.
Calixa-Lavallée, Quebec | Introduction
The Calixa-Lavallée Award () is a music award created in 1959. It is granted by the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society of Montreal (SSJBM) to a Quebecer having distinguished him or herself in the field of music. It was named after musician Calixa Lavallée, composer of the Canadian national anthem, "O Canada".
Calixa-Lavallée Award | Introduction
Calixte Duguay, (born July 15, 1939) is a multi-disciplinarian Canadian artist born in Ste-Marie-St-Raphaël, on Lamèque Island. In 2009, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada "for the impact he has had on the Acadian and Canadian music scene as a writer, composer and singer". In 2010 he was awarded the Lieutenant-Governor's Award for High Achievement in the Arts for his music. In 2012, he was made a member of the Order of New Brunswick.
Calixte Duguay | Introduction
The village of Calixa-Lavallée, southeast of Montreal, is named after him. The professional training school Calixa-Lavallée in Quebec also bears his name. The following roads were named to honour Calixa Lavallée:
Calixa Lavallée | Legacy
Lavallée returned to Montreal in 1863, and for two years performed concerts there. In the 1860s he also resided briefly in Chicago, Philadelphia, and New York, but spent most of his time travelling with minstrel show companies. He founded the blackface New Orleans Minstrel Company. In 1867, he married an American woman, Josephine Gentilly (or "Gently"). Lavallée worked as a pianist, organist and music teacher, and also conducted orchestral and operatic productions in concert halls, including the Montréal Academy of Music in Montréal, Quebec City and in many U.S. cities. Among his pupils was composer Alexis Contant.
Calixa Lavallée | Career
Born in La Tuque on August 2, 1914, Félix Leclerc lived in a family who loved music. Félix Leclerc sang for the first time on the radio in 1939, did theater, notably with the Compagnons de Saint-Laurent, between 1943 and 1945, and founded, with others, the VLM theater troupe in 1948. After a stay three years in France, where he won, in 1951, for his song "Moi, mes souliers ...", the Grand Prize of the disc of the Charles-Cros Academy, he returned to Quebec, where his merits will earn him the highest distinctions and numerous awards, including the Order of Canada in 1968, the Calixa-Lavallée award in 1975, the Denise-Pelletier award in 1977 and the Ordre national du Québec in 1985.
Andante Mount | Toponymy
The 1970s are the most intensive years of her songwriter career, being marked by the recording of many of her songs with different artists. "Du fil des aiguilles et du coton", "Je le vois dans ma soupe", "Ça m'fait du bien" recorded by France Castel on Profil Records and Trans-World Records, reached the Top Twenty Charts in Quebec and her 1973, 1974, 1975 albums are mostly Charbonneau's songs. Patsy Gallant made the charts with "Tout va trop vite", "Thank you come again" (in French), "Un jour comme les autres", "Le lit qui craque", songs that gave a start to Gallant's French-language career in Quebec.
Christine Charbonneau | Composing for others
They were favored in particular by the Canadian Trio (1948), including Gilles Lefebvre, Colombe Pelletier and Rafael Masella. Her papers are held at the Archives Nationales du Québec (ANQ) in Quebec City.
Jocelyne Binet | Music career
In 1983 he was awarded the Calixa-Lavallée Award and in 1984 he was made both a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Member of the Order of Canada. In 1987 he received the Canadian Music Council Medal and in 1990 he was made an honorary member of the Canadian Music Centre. He married soprano Micheline Tessier in 1960.
Gilles Potvin | Introduction
He operated in partnership with his son Charles from 1888 to 1894 as Lavallée & Fils; they are believed to have manufactured over 200 violins. Lavallée then retired and Charles took over the operation of the business. His son Calixa became a famous pianist and composer, who wrote the music for "O Canada".
Augustin Lavallée | Introduction
Michel Louvain and Claude Valade were back on the Quebec charts with songs written by Charbonneau. "La dame en bleu" on Mirabel Records was for Louvain one of the greatest hits of his career. "Viens t'étendre aux creux de mes bras", "Aide-moi à passer la nuit", "J'ai dit non", "Quand tes yeux", "C'est parce que je t'aime ", "Est-ce si facile ", "Le chemin de tes rêves" – all songs who have featured in the Top Ten on the Quebec charts and were among Claude Valade's hits that became standards on Quebec radio airplay. Charbonneau's biggest hit as a singer was her disco song of 1975, "Censuré".
Christine Charbonneau | Composing for others
Thérèse Montcalm was born in Quebec, Canada, in 1963. At the age of seven, she formed an ambition to forge a career out of singing after seeing the René Simard film "Un enfant comme les autres". After being introduced to Jimi Hendrix and Elvis Presley by her brother, she took up acoustic guitar several years later. During her early musical life she opened for such artists as Cowboy Junkies and Robert Charlebois while working at Popico's theatre in Alberta. After a short period in Montreal as part of the duo Beaux Esprits in the autumn of 1993, Montcalm returned to Quebec and entered the recording studios to produce her début studio album.
Térez Montcalm | Biography
Other famous composers are Claude Champagne, Calixa Lavallée, Pierre Mercure and composer-critic Alfred La Liberté, among others.
Music of Quebec | Classical music
From 1976–1979 he taught at the Bourgchemin Cegep in Drummondville and from 1979–1997 he taught at Université Laval. He also served on the faculty of the Université de Montréal in 1979–1980. His work for guitar "Me duele España," played by and written for guitarist Michael Laucke"," was recorded on the Radio Canada International label (RCI 457) and won the Grand Prix du Disque of the Canadian Music Council in 1979 for the best Canadian recording. He is among the first Quebec musicians to be trained exclusively at the CMM. From 1944 to 1953 he studied composition with Claude Champagne, acoustics with Jean Papineau-Couture, harmony, counterpoint and fugue with Isabelle Delorme and piano with , Germaine Malépart and .
François Morel | Life and career
Jean-Baptiste Day ceremony, and was officially adopted in 1980. Calixa Lavallée wrote the music, which was a setting of a patriotic poem composed by the poet and judge Sir Adolphe-Basile Routhier. The text was originally only in French before it was adapted into English in 1906.
Canada | Music
In November 2008, at 9 years of age, he sang a duet "Le plus grand amour qui soit" on the album of Italian Canadian singer Giorgia Fumanti on the latter's album entitled "Je Suis". He released his debut album "Partir pour les étoiles" on Orange Music record label in April 2009 when he was just ten. The official launching was at Montreal's "Metropolis" theater. He had a radio hit with "Un pas de plus" taken from the album. Another notable track from the album was "Question de paix" with lyrics by Donald Bilodeau and music by Johanne Lefebvre and Yves Frulla.
Jacob Guay | Career
Choquette was born March 14, 1938 in Montreal, Quebec to a French Canadian family. He attended Selwyn House School and did his undergraduate studies at Sir George Williams University. Afterwards, he studied for a master's degree in archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania, but did not graduate. In 1959 he created a record called "Songs of Murray Bay", which made fun of a summer resort town on the St. Lawrence which was widely popular locally. Because of this song, Choquette, at age 22, caught the interest of Cambridge-based musical satirist Tom Lehrer.
Michel Choquette | Life and career
Facal was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and moved with his family to Sherbrooke, Quebec, in 1970. His father, a surgeon with leftist political views, moved to Canada to escape Uruguay's political turmoil. Facal attended a bilingual French/Spanish school in Uruguay and was fluent in both languages before arriving in Quebec; he later became fluent in English. His sister, Carole Facal, is a noted singer-songwriter in Quebec. Facal has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Université du Québec à Montréal (1983), a Masters of Arts degree in Political Science from the Université de Montréal (1986), and a Ph.D.
Joseph Facal | Early life and career
Born in Montreal, Quebec in 1943, Charbonneau wrote her first song at the age of twelve. She began singing professionally at La Butte à Mathieu in Val-David, Québec in 1959. She accompanied herself with a guitar like her mentor Felix Leclerc and was considered to be one of the icons of Québec song. Charbonneau was referred to as a chansonnier. She toured for several years in the Québec coffee houses called "les boites à chansons," which were proliferating at the time. Charbonneau started giving songs to different singers, such as Ginette Ravel, one of the major artists of this epoch.
Christine Charbonneau | Early career
Born in Saint-Jérôme (Quebec), great-granddaughter of Calixa Lavallée, she began her piano studies at the age of 6. At the Conservatoire national de musique of Montreal, she studied organ with Eugène Lapierre, harmony and piano with Antonio Létourneau. She continued her studies at the New England Conservatory of Boston under the direction of Carl McKinley (oran), Jesús María Sanroma (piano) and Marian Mason (harmony), and won a "Soloist Diploma" in 1938. In the fall of 1938, she moved to Paris where she worked at the Conservatoire de Paris with Olivier Messiaen (musical analysis), Marcel Dupré (organ and improvisation), Simone Plé-Caussade (counterpoint and fugue), Norbert Dufourcq (music history), and Henri Büsser (musical composition).
Françoise Aubut | Life
Robert Charlebois, OC, OQ (born June 25, 1944) is a Québecois author, composer, musician, performer and actor. Charlebois was born in Montreal, Quebec. Among his best known songs are "Lindberg" (the duo with Louise Forestier in particular), "Ordinaire", "Les Ailes d'un Ange" and "Je reviendrai à Montréal". His lyrics, often written in joual, are funny, relying upon plays on words. He won the Sopot International Song Festival in 1970. In 1970 he sang with Italian singer Patty Pravo the Italian song "La solitudine". In the same year, he performed at the Festival Express train tour in Canada, but did not appear on the documentary film.
Robert Charlebois | Introduction
She released "Risque" in 1994, an album which featured performances from fourteen different musicians and earned her five Félix Award nominations in 1995, including Female Singer of the Year, and Best Pop/Rock Album. The album proved popular and was followed by a major tour consisting of over 100 concerts in Canada, France, Belgium and Switzerland. Three years after the release of her first album, she released the record "Parle Pas Si Fort" in 1997 on Universal Records. The album was again followed by a tour, which was this time limited to shows in the area around Quebec. After the excessive amount of touring, Montcalm took a break from performing live and devoted the following three years to writing new material and practising the double bass.
Térez Montcalm | Biography
Jacques Calonne (born 1930 in Mons) is a Belgian artist, composer, singer, actor, logogramist, and writer.
Jacques Calonne | Introduction
He was nominated for the Breakthrough Artist of the Year award at the 2003 edition of the Victoires de la musique – France's version of the Grammys. In 2004 he was nominated for Male Artist/Group of the Year, Song of the Year for "Pensons à l'avenir" and Concert/Show of the Year for his concert at the Bataclan.
Cali (singer) | Awards
At the end of 2001, Cali stopped work with Tom record company Labels, which signed him on. At the end of 2003, he released his first well-known solo album "L'amour parfait". Regarded as a critical success, the album made him known amongst the premier French artists. Popular songs from the album include "Elle m'a dit", the single "C'est quand le bonheur" and "Pensons à l'avenir". In October 2005, Cali released his second solo album "Menteur". This album reinforced his position amongst France's most popular artists. Popular songs include "Je ne vivrai pas sans toi" and the single "Je m'en vais (après Miossec)".
Cali (singer) | Biography
Since "J.A. Martin", Beaudin’s career was focused exclusively in Quebec with "Cordélia", "Mario", the film version of the stage hit "Being at Home with Claude", and the hugely popular television series, "Les Filles de Caleb".
Jean Beaudin | Early career
Born in Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Leclerc grew up in Togo and Algeria, where he was influenced by traditional African rhythms. He returned to Quebec in 1976, and appeared on the music scene in the 1980s, making waves with his provocative lyrics—in his song "1990", he compares the high-tech actions of Desert Storm to his sexual activities with his girlfriend. His 1990 album "L'amour est sans pitié" was a hit outside of Quebec, and was released in the rest of Canada, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Japan. He was the recipient of a Félix Award in 1997, following the success of his 1996 album "Le Dôme".
Jean Leloup | Biography
Luc De Larochellière (born 27 April 1966) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Quebec.
Luc de Larochellière | Introduction
He was born on November 8, 1882 in New York City. In the early 1900s, he moved to Pennsylvania and from there to Fresno, California. He died on February 20, 1966 in Fresno, California.
Pop Laval | Biography
Luce Dufault (born August 19, 1966 in Orleans, Ontario) is a Canadian singer. She is of French descent. She performed in two musicals from Luc Plamondon, La Légende de Jimmy and Starmania. She recorded a few hits including "Soirs de scotch", "Au delà des mots" and "Ce qu'il reste de nous". In March 2019, she was one of 11 singers from Quebec, alongside Ginette Reno, Diane Dufresne, Céline Dion, Isabelle Boulay, Louise Forestier, Laurence Jalbert, Catherine Major, Ariane Moffatt, Marie Denise Pelletier and Marie-Élaine Thibert, who participated in a supergroup recording of Renée Claude's 1971 single "Tu trouveras la paix" after Claude's diagnosis with Alzheimer's disease was announced.
Luce Dufault | Introduction
Guy debuted in Montreal cabarets. She sang at the Faisan Doré in 1950 and in 1952 was elected Miss Radio-TV by Radiomonde. She worked in Montreal cabarets for several years, often with Jacques Normand and Gilles Pellerin. In 1955 Charles Trenet discovered Guylaine in Montreal and began writing songs for her. She made a grand entrance at the Olympia with Charles Trenet and Louis Armstrong. Settling permanently in Paris in 1956, she released on record several songs by Trenet and performed at the Bobino theater. After touring Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East, she returned to Quebec. She performed in Montreal at the opening of the Queen Elizabeth Hotel in April 1958, made several television appearances, and played the title role in "Irma La Douce" with the Theater of the New World.
Guylaine Guy | Biography
A graduate of the Conservatoire de Paris and the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Québec, he has taught on the music faculties of Laval University (1972-1975) and Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal (1975-present).
Bernard Jean | Introduction
During this time he wrote "Quand les hommes vivront d'amour", which was inspired by the contemporaneous Algerian War; first recorded by Constantine, the song has since been recorded and performed by many artists in both France and Canada. Other noted songs he wrote during this era included "Les Trottoirs", "La Vénus à Mimile", "Le Coeur du Bon Dieu" and "Rosemont sous la pluie". After returning to Quebec in 1959, he took acting roles in several "téléromans" and hosted the children's television series "Coucou", and cofounded a "boîte à chansons" called Chez Bozo with Jean-Pierre Ferland, Clémence DesRochers, Hervé Brousseau, André Gagnon and Claude Léveillée.
Raymond Lévesque | Background
Lou-Adriane Cassidy is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Quebec. She is most noted for her song "La fin du monde à tous les jours", which was shortlisted for the 2020 SOCAN Songwriting Prize; she was also the performer of "Ça va ça va", which was a SOCAN Songwriting Prize nominee in 2018 for songwriter Philémon Cimon. Cassidy was a competitor in the fourth season of "La Voix" in 2016, competing on Éric Lapointe's team before being eliminated from the competition in episode 10. In 2018, she was a competitor in the Francouvertes contest, where she and her songwriting collaborators Philémon Cimon and Stéphanie Boulay won the Paroles & Musique Award.
Lou-Adriane Cassidy | Introduction
The album did not receive wide notice at first, but broke through to wider attention when he was invited to perform the single "Fille de personne II" on the sixth season finale of "La Voix" in May 2018. The Polaris nomination, in turn, resulted in media attention in both English Canada and the United States, markets where francophone artists from Quebec rarely break through without adding English material to their repertoires.
Hubert Lenoir | Introduction
His debut album was "Nouvel Autrefois" that was released in 2007 on XWide Tidals record label and distributed by Sizzle-Distribution Select. The album has Latin, Middle Eastern, Reggaeton and World-Urban influences. The single "Quoi Faire" taken from the album was nominated in 2009 for Best Video Clip at the Trille Or awards gala, and XLA nominated for Best New Discovery and Best Singer-Songwriter. Other notable singles / videos from the album include "Jusqu'à Demain" and "J'aime Jammer". He is a member of Association des Professionnel de la Chanson et de la Musique (APCM), L'Union des Artistes (UDA), Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN), Société Canadienne de Gestion du Droit de Reproduction (SODRAC).
XLA (singer) | Career
After a few years in Spain she published her first book, "C'est le soleil qui m'a brûlée", at the age of 23 and eventually chose to become a full-time writer.
Calixthe Beyala | Biography
Working on construction sites, Thiffault composed new versions of Quebecois folk songs, and also wrote many songs setting new lyrics to traditional melodies. He first found success in 1954 with "Le Rapide-Blanc", a humorous song written in 1935 while working on the Rapide-Blanc Generating Station. The song was a country and western adaptation of the traditional song "Le moine tremblant et la dame". Thiffault wrote songs honouring local sports figures, including hockey players Maurice Richard, ("Le Rocket Richard"), and Guy Lafleur("La Tourne à Ti-Guy Lafleur"). Other songs that he wrote were "Je parle à la française" and "En écoutant Y mouillera pu pantoute".
Oscar Thiffault | Career
Yves Lapierre (born 9 August 1946) is a Canadian composer, arranger, record producer, and singer. He began his career performing and recording with the folk vocal quartet Les Cailloux during the 1960s. In the 1970s and 1980s he was highly active as a composer, arranger, and record producer for a large number of notable Canadian musicians. Some of his best known songs are "Get That Ball", "Tout va trop vite", "Le Désamour", and "Moi, de la tête aux pieds". He also composed music for several Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television dramas; including the Guy Fournier TV serials "Jamais deux sans toi" (1977–80) and "L'Or et le papier" (1988–89) and Lise Payette's "La Bonne aventure".
Yves Lapierre | Introduction
Bouliane was born in Grand-Mère, Quebec. He is a graduate of Laval University (B.Mus 1977 and M.Mus in 1979). He studied music composition in the Neue Musik Theater class of Mauricio Kagel in Cologne followed by studies with György Ligeti until 1985.
Denys Bouliane | Early life and education
"Ça n'finira jamais" is a 2008 song recorded by French artist Johnny Hallyday. It was the first single from his album of the same name on which it features as first track. Written by Patrick Guirao, who has previously worked for many notable artists (Emmanuel Moire, Chimène Badi, Florent Pagny, Magalie Vaé...), and composed by French pop singers Calogero and his brother Gioacchino, a former member of Les Charts, "Ça n'finira jamais" was released in mid-November 2008 and the B-side of the single is a new song, "Croire en l'homme", written by Kevin Roentgen from the band Orson, Oliver Leiber, and Pierre Yves Lebert, which is also included on the special edition album cd.
Ça n'finira jamais | Introduction
Toujours de nous (meaning "Always from Us") is the twelfth studio album by Canadian singer Mario Pelchat. It was released on October 19, 2010 by Musicor.
Toujours de nous | Introduction
In 2007, he released his first French-language album, "Brûler le jour". Although fluently bilingual as a speaker he was not experienced in French songwriting, so the album also marked his first time collaborating with other songwriters, including Jim Corcoran, Vincent Vallières, Ève Cournoyer and Fred Fortin. The album's lead single, "Une rose noire", became his first charting hit on Canada's francophone pop charts, reaching number 12 in the Quebec charts in 2007. Later that year, he was a finalist for Prix Félix-Leclerc de la chanson.
Paul Cargnello | Musical career
Laurence Nerbonne is a Canadian pop singer from Quebec, who won the Juno Award for Francophone Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2017 for her album "XO". Originally from Gatineau, Quebec, she performed with the band Hôtel Morphée before releasing "XO", her debut album, in 2016. In addition to her Juno Award win, she won the 2016 SOCAN Songwriting Prize in the French-language division for the song "Rêves d’été".
Laurence Nerbonne | Introduction
He was born on December 26, 1860 in Saint-Maurice, Mauricie.
Pierre-Calixte Neault | Early life
He wrote his first songs at the age of ten and started touring Quebec and France at the age of 15.
Éric Lapointe (singer) | Childhood
Born in Matane, Quebec, he studied privately with Édouard Woolley and Albert Cornellier in Montreal, and at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal with Martial Singher. He went to Milan, Italy, for complementary studies with Mario Basiola and Antonio Narducci. He sang small roles with the Opéra national du Québec, but his real debut was as Colline in "La bohème", in New Orleans Opera, in 1955. He made his Opera Guild of Montreal debut as Philip II in "Don Carlos" (one of his greatest roles) in 1956. He also appeared in concert and on Canadian radio and television.
Joseph Rouleau | Life and career
He began his last piece, "Symphonie pour voix humaines" for six-voice choir with brass accompaniment, in 1956 but never completed the work. He died in Montreal in 1962 at the age of 71. He was named an associate of the Canadian Music Centre posthumously and many of his papers and manuscripts are part of the collection at the Library and Archives Canada.
Rodolphe Mathieu | Later life and career
"Tout c'qui nous sépare" (English: "All That Separates Us") is a 1991 pop song recorded by French singer Jil Caplan, released as CD single in March 1991. It was the first single from her second studio album, "La Charmeuse de serpents", released a few months earlier, on which it appeared as second track. Written and composed by Jay Alansky, the song became a top ten hit in France and remains Caplan's most successful single in terms of sales and chart performances. It was later included on the singer's 1998 greatest hits album, "Jours de fête".
Tout c'qui nous sépare | Introduction
France D'Amour (born France Rochon on March 30th 1967 in Mont-Rolland, Sainte-Adèle, Quebec, Canada) is a French Canadian singer songwriter from Quebec. She studied music at Collège Lionel-Groulx in Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec specialising in jazz and playing guitar. Later, she was part of various musical formations, notably U-Bahn, The Answer and France. In 1992, she gained great fame with her debut album "Animal" that was certified gold in Quebec. In 2002, she had success in France as well through her collaboration with Jean-Jacques Goldman, who co-wrote the album with his team (Robert Goldman, Jacques Veneruso, Christophe Battaglia, Erick Benzi and Gildas Arzel).
France D'Amour | Introduction
The song, "Manuel Ascencio Padilla", is included on the 1977 "La marche et le drapeau" album by the instrumental and vocal folk music group Quilapayún.
Manuel Ascencio Padilla | Popular culture
1996 : La Boîte à Chansons, Compilation ("Montreal, Qc, Canada") 1997 : Toile de vie, Beatoven ("Montreal, Qc, Canada") 1997 : Noir et blanc*, Beatoven ("Montreal, Qc, Canada") 1997 : La quarte des quatres, Radio-Canada ("Moncton, N.-B., Canada") 1997 : Harper's March, Harper's March ("Hollywood, CA, USA") 1998 : Rue St-Denis, Daniel Simard ("Montreal, Qc, Canada") 1978 : Vendredi 4hrs, Etienne Deschènes ("Edmundston, N.-B., Canada") 1978 : J’aime mieux être pauvre*, Guy Pharand ("Montreal, Qc, Canada") 1978 : Promise You Forever*, Dan Nash ("Calgary, AB, Canada") 1978 : L’As de Vegas*, Jean-Pierre Fortin ("Montreal, Qc, Canada") 1978 : Lever haut la main, Beatoven ("Montreal, Qc, Canada") 1978 : People and Places*, Max Bennett ("Los Angeles, CA, USA") 1978 : La Voie*, Patrick Marty ("Montreal, Qc, Canada") 1999 : On n’est pas sorti de l'Auberge, Dragon Rouge ("Montreal, Qc, Canada") 1999 : Caroline*, Phil David Francis ("Toronto, On, Canada") 1999 : More Purple Than Black*, Phil Lewis ("Los Angeles, CA, USA") 1999 : Small People, Short Story, Little Crime*, Existence ("Montreal, Qc, Canada") 1999 : Wild Flowers*, Harper's March ("Hollywood, CA, USA") 1999 : A Man Like That*, Dan Nash ("Calgary, AB, Canada") 2000 : Little Luck, Messenger Boy ("Hollywood, CA, USA") 2001 : Into a Fire, Dan Nash ("Calgary, AB, Canada") 2001 : La planète humaine, Denis Schingh ("Toronto, ON, Canada") 2001 : Au Yable le Brandy!*, Baqqhus ("Montreal, Qc, Canada") 2002 : Obscene Cuisine*, Vaginal Croutons ("Montreal, Qc, Canada") 2002 : La Samba du millénaire*, La Compagnie Créole ("Paris, France") 2003 : À l’idée de m’changer, Sans Détour ("Québec, Qc, Canada") 2004 : Motown, Toute une génération vol.1 ("Toronto, On, Canada") 2004 : Motown, Toute une génération vol.2 ("Toronto, On, Canada") 2004 : Motown, Toute une génération vol.3 ("Toronto, On, Canada") 2004 : Big Star*, Patrick Marty ("Montreal, Qc, Canada") 2004 : Karaoke en folie, Hommage à la Bolduc ("Toronto, On, Canada") 2004 : Fitness Groove, Shadow Boxing ("Toronto, On, Canada") 2004 : Fitness Groove, Step Mania ("Toronto, On, Canada") 2004 : Fitness Groove, Cardio Mania ("Toronto, On, Canada")
Dominique Blais | Discography ("Guitar, Production and/or Radio Promotion only*")
Boudreau and Duguay have re-united on occasion since then, including in 2007 for an "Orgues et Couleurs" festival. Duguay released his first solo album in 1975, entitled "Alllô tôulmônd"; this album features "Tôuttt etô bôuttt," one of his best known tracks. The following year, he performed in front of 400,000 people at the province's "Fête nationale", an annual Quebec nationalist cultural event. Duguay released several more solo albums in the seventies, eighties, and nineties; after a gap of eleven years, he returned with "J'ai soif" in 2010. His song "La bittt à Tibi" was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2008.
Raôul Duguay | Artist
Léopold Simoneau, (May 3, 1916 – August 24, 2006) was a French-Canadian lyric tenor, one of the outstanding Mozarteans of his time. In 1959 he became the first recipient of the Calixa-Lavallée Award.
Léopold Simoneau | Introduction
"Music & Media" wrote about the song: "The Plastic Bertrand French-language punk classic is re-styled in an electronic dance fashion á la Billy Idol. Très bien! Bonton Radio/Prague head of music Peter Kricek says that the original out of 1978 was known in his country in the communist days, but it was more of an underground thing. 'The people here are absolutely mad about Leila's cover, which is a powerplay at our station. Every four hours we play it.'"
Ça plane pour moi | Critical reception
In 1946 Binet was awarded a CAPAC (Association des compositeurs, auteurs et éditeurs du Canada Ltée) prize for composition. After returning from Paris to Canada, she taught from 1951 to 1957 at the École Vincent-d'Indy, from 1952 to 1961 at the Centre d'arts Orford, and from 1957 to 1959 at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec. From 1952 to 1961, she taught at the Jeunesses musicales du Canada (JMC) summer camps. She also taught analysis and counterpoint at Laval University from 1957 to 1968. Binet's works have been performed in the media and in concert in North America, South America and Europe.
Jocelyne Binet | Music career
Morisset was a pupil of Georges-Émile Tanguay. In 1964, she and her husband were awarded the Prix Calixa-Lavallée. In 1981, she and her husband were made Members of the Order of Canada in recognition of having "contributed to" Canada's "musical life by attracting attention to the works of Canadian composers-works that were composed especially for them-and through their participation in various cultural organizations". In 1985, they were promoted to Officer. In 1994, they were made Knights of the National Order of Quebec.
Renée Morisset | Honours
She won the 1992 for her book "La Douleur du volcan", the 2000 and the 2004 Prix Abitibi-Consolidated for her works. Pedneault wrote the lyrics of the song "Du pain et des roses" (Bread and roses) during the first Marche mondiale des Femmes organized in Quebec in 1995. Pedneault created the radio plays "Signé Loranger" (1995), "Éloge de l'indignation" (1996) and "Robert Gravel, l'homme qui avait toujours soif" (1997), and the television series "Sous le signe du Lion" (1997) for Radio-Canada. Pedneault became involved in Quebec separatism and authored a text for the mobilization of the Quebec nation, entitled "La force du désir" (The Force of Desire).
Hélène Pedneault | Biography
The Quebec folk music group Mes Aïeux wrote a song about him, entitled "Train de vie (le Surcheval)", which was released on their album "En famille", drawing parallels between the life of Alexis le Trotteur and the frenetic pace of modern living.
Alexis Lapointe | Popular culture
Antoine Corriveau (born 1985) is a Canadian folk rock singer-songwriter and author from Quebec. He is most noted for his 2014 song "Le Nouveau vocabulaire", which won the French division of the SOCAN Songwriting Prize in 2015, and his 2016 album "Cette chose qui cognait au creux de sa poitrine sans vouloir s'arrêter", which was longlisted for the 2017 Polaris Music Prize.
Antoine Corriveau | Introduction
"D'elles" also includes "Immensité", the second single which was sent to radio on 27 April 2007. It was written by Nina Bouraoui, a French-Algerian author whose work focuses mainly on the bond between females. She also wrote "Les paradis". Other songs include: "Je cherche l'ombre" with lyrics by Lise Payette who is a well-known Quebec author, an avid writer and a weekly columnist for "Le Journal de Montréal", a television and radio personality, a politician and a strong advocate for women; "La diva", a tribute to the famous opera singer Maria Callas, written by Denise Bombardier, an established journalist, novelist and media personality in Quebec who was honoured with the prestigious Legion of Honour and the National Order of Quebec (the song includes fragment of "Sì.
D'elles | Content
He wrote songs until the 1960s, sometimes under an alias, for Dalida, Gloria Lasso, Luis Mariano and Tino Rossi. He worked with lyricist Michel Vaucaire. In 1956 they wrote "Non, je ne regrette rien", recorded in 1960 by Édith Piaf. That led to more than 30 songs for her, such as "Flonflons du Bal", "Mon Dieu" and "Les Amants" which Piaf and Dumont wrote and sang together in 1962. Piaf's death in 1963 led him to work with Jacques Brel, writing "Je m'en remets à toi" in 1964, and to writing songs for television shows such as "Michel Vaillant" in 1967, and cinema, "Trafic" by Jacques Tati in 1971.
Charles Dumont (singer) | Composer
In 1988 a documentary film about Tiffault's life, created by Serge Giguère, was released. His songs continue to be played and recorded in Quebec; the band Carotté included "“Tape la bizoune" on their debut album.
Oscar Thiffault | Career
Pierre Lapointe was born in Alma, Quebec, and grew up in Gatineau. He began studying arts in 1999, but changed his program and started to take theatre courses at the Cégep de Saint-Hyacinthe. He left after a few months to focus on songwriting, but later returned to complete his studies in plastic arts. While there, he entered a competition called "Tout nouveau, tout show". Lapointe won the "Award for Songwriter-Performer of the Year" and the "Audience Award". He moved to Montreal and continued studying art at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). In September 2001, he came first in the songwriter category at the Festival international de la chanson de Granby.
Pierre Lapointe | Early life
"Qui a le droit..." is a pop song recorded by French artist Patrick Bruel. Written and composed by Gérard Presgurvic and Patrick Bruel, it was the first single from his album "Si ce soir...", recorded after his first concerts tour. It was released in a live version in late October 1991 under RCA label and was a hit in France, becoming Bruel's only number-one single.
Qui a le droit... | Introduction
Mi Chiamano Mimì" from the opera "La bohème" performed by Callas); "Femme comme chacune" whose lyrics are an adaptation of the poem "Ses yeux de clair de lune", by the late Quebec author, Jovette Alice Bernier; "Si j'étais quelqu'un" which is a reflection on what society judges as being "normal" and whose lyrics are adapted from a poem written by Nathalie Nechtschein, a young French poet; "Je ne suis pas celle" written by Christine Orban, a Moroccan-French novelist who has authored many books an describes herself as a romantic who treasures the female's ability to dream; "Le temps qui compte" with lyrics by Marie Laberge, a Quebec author known in Canada for her literature, and in other Francophone countries for her plays; "Lettre de George Sand à Alfred de Musset", an adaptation of a letter exchanged between two lovers in the 19th century, written by George Sand; and "Berceuse", a lullaby written for Dion's son René-Charles by Janette Bertrand, a famous writer and public personality in Quebec, winner of the 1990 Montreal Salon de la Femme 'Femme du Siècle' award.
D'elles | Content
Born in Lens in 1905, André Hornez a passion early for architecture and writing. He finally chose writing. He began his career as secretary of Saint-Granier. For him, he writes books magazines and operettas. The author is also hired by Paramount company in Hollywood to write screenplays. His first songs are composed by Paul Misraki and performed by Ray Ventura and Maurice Chevalier. As for Ray Ventura, they collaborate with lyricist for many years. Among the best-known songs from this collaboration are "Ça Vaut Mieux que d'Attraper la Scarlatine" (1936), "Qu'est-ce qu'on Attend pour être Heureux ?" (1937), "Comme tout le Monde" (1938), "Tiens, tiens, tiens !" (1939), "Dans mon Cœur" (1940), "Maria de Bahia" (1946) and "La mi-août" (1950).
André Hornez | Biography
Born in İzmir to French parents in the diplomatic service, she left Turkey for France in 1951, and her acting career began soon thereafter. She acted in multilingual cinema chiefly from 1951 to 1980, appearing in several Italian films directed by Federico Fellini, for whom she was a favourite performer. She acted in films directed by Costa Gavras, Jean Renoir and Jules Dassin. Her career extended to television movies from roughly 1980 to 2002. Her recording career began in France in 1956, and her most famous song was "Fais-moi mal, Johnny" ("Hurt me Johnny"), written by Boris Vian. This song was one of the first rock 'n' roll songs with French lyrics.
Magali Noël | Biography
Ciccone was born very prematurely, with the doctors giving him just 5% of survival, as he recounts in his autobiography titled "Cuore". Born to Italian parents originating from Abruzzo in south Italy, he lived in the Mile-X quarter of Montreal, at the time a very poor quarter of Montreal's Petite-Italie (Small Italy) region. His father died when he was very young, and he was a victim of bullying at school. He studied Child Psychology at Montreal's McGill University and in 1998, he won "Ma Première" held annually for upcoming Canadian artists at Montreal's Place des Arts and upon win signed a record contract releasing his debut album "L'Opéra du Mendiant" in 1998.
Nicola Ciccone | Biography
Térez Montcalm (born Thérèse Montcalm in 1963) is a Canadian jazz singer and songwriter. She sings and plays acoustic guitar, which she has played since a young age, as well as double bass. She describes herself as "a jazz singer with a very 'rock' attitude". Her influences include Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, and Billie Holiday, and her music has been compared to that of Edith Piaf and Janis Joplin. Her career started in 1981. During her early years as a musician, she performed as a warm-up act for the Cowboy Junkies. Her first album, "Risque", was released in 1994 and she was nominated for five ADISQ awards in 1995.
Térez Montcalm | Introduction
She also sang "Fuir le bonheur de peur qu'il ne se sauve" by Serge Gainsbourg as a duet with Maxime Landry. The duet recording was featured on the double platinum album "Vox pop". The song rose quickly on the Quebec charts.
Sophie Vaillancourt | Biography
Montand went on to international recognition as a singer and actor, starring in numerous films. His recognizably crooner songs, especially those about Paris, became instant classics. He was one of the most famous performers at Bruno Coquatrix's famous Paris Olympia music hall, and toured with musicians including Didi Duprat. In October 1947, he sang "Mais qu'est-ce que j'ai ?" (music by Henri Betti and lyrics by Édith Piaf) at the "Théâtre de l'Étoile". Betti also asked him to sing "C'est si bon" but Montand refused. Following the success of the recording of this song by the Sœurs Étienne in 1948, he decided to record it.
Yves Montand | Career
Calixte F. Savoie (August 23, 1895 – December 2, 1985) was a Canadian businessman, school principal, teacher and politician. Born in Bouctouche, New Brunswick, he was summoned to the Senate of Canada in 1955. An Independent Liberal, he represented the senatorial division of L'Acadie, New Brunswick. He resigned in 1970. École Calixte-F.-Savoie in Sainte-Anne-de-Kent, New Brunswick is named in his honour.
Calixte Savoie | Introduction
Mario Pelchat (born 1 February 1964) is a Canadian Francophone singer from Quebec. He received the Felix Award in 1990 and 1992.
Mario Pelchat | Introduction
Patrice Michaud (born November 1, 1980) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Cap-Chat, Quebec. He won the SOCAN Songwriting Prize in the French division in 2014 for his song "Mécaniques générales", and his 2017 album "Almanach" was a Juno Award finalist for Francophone Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2018. A graduate of Université Laval, he released his debut album "Le Triangle des Bermudes" in 2011, and followed up with "Le Feu de chaque jour" in 2014. In 2015 he won the Prix Félix for Best Concert Performance by a Solo Artist for his tour to support "Le Feu de chaque jour".
Patrice Michaud | Introduction
Since the late 1990s, Calogero composed songs for many artists, often in collaboration with his brother Gioacchino. For example, he composed songs for Florent Pagny ("Châtelet-les-Halles"), Hélène Ségara ("Au Nom d'une Femme" and "Regarde"), Ismael Lo ("L'Amour a tous les droits" and "Faut qu'on s'aime"), Pascal Obispo ("Millésime"), Jenifer Bartoli ("C'est de l'or"), Julie Zenatti ("La Vérité m'attire" et "Toutes les douleurs"), Patrick Fiori ("Que tu reviennes", "Être là", "Encore", "Tout le monde", "Tera umana" et "Il n'y a pas grand chose à dire"), Fred Blondin ("Je manque de toi" and "Perso et les Aimants"), Mario Barravecchia ("On se ressemble").
Calogero (singer) | Collaborations as composer
In 1956, Henri Betti composed the music for the film "Honoré de Marseille" in which he also composed the music of four songs with lyrics by Jean Manse, all of which are performed by Fernandel. "C'est Noël" was one of the four songs that Fernandel sings in the film but the scene was cut at the editing. So it appears only in the record released the same year with the other three songs of the film ("Tout ça c'est Marseille", "Quel plaisir ! Quel travail !" and "Oh ! Honoré") all orchestrated by Paul Bonneau. The melody of this song was written by Henri Betti when he became father of a girl in 1950.
C'est Noël | Story
There were no commercial singles from this album released in Quebec, Canada, although five of them went to the radio. Sony Music Entertainment decided to release two singles at the same time, in November 1991: "Des mots qui sonnent" to the pop stations (airplay peak at number 10) and "L'amour existe encore" to the adult contemporary format (airplay peak at number 16). March 1992 saw the issue of "Je danse dans ma tête" (number 3 in airplay). "Quelqu'un que j'aime, quelqu'un qui m'aime" was chosen in August 1992 as the next single and became a hit reaching number 1 on the airplay chart in Quebec.
Dion chante Plamondon | 1991-92 in Canada
In 2005, at age 15, she released her debut "La Fille qui Chante". One of its singles included a duet with Garou. The album was released in multiple countries and included four Top 10 singles, two of which, "Chante" and "Tu es comme ca", went to #1.
Marilou | Music career
Belleval's place of birth is not known for certain, but he was probably born in Quebec City in 1892. He made his singing debut in April 1917 in the production of "L'Accordée de village" directed by Omer Létourneau in the Auditorium de Québec. The following April he appeared in Robert Planquette's "RIP", also at the Auditorium de Québec. In time, he began to pick up other roles. He played Macroton in Poisse's "L'Amour médecin" for the Knights of Columbus in Quebec city in February 1919. Apart from productions, he undertook singing performances for the Cercle Montcalm in November 1919 and the Cercle des Dames de Lévis in May 1920.
Joseph Fournier de Belleval | Career
Other Québécois musicians with notable influences from Bolduc include Oscar Thiffault, whose style was descended from Bolduc, André Gagnon, whose composition "Les Turluteries" is based on Bolduc's use of turlutage, and Robert Charlebois, who also sang in the dual French Canadian and English derived style and used the everyday slang of Quebec. On August 12, 1994, a stamp was released that honoured her with her portrait on a Canadian postage stamp. The stamp was designed by Pierre Fontaine based on images from Bernard Leduc. Seven and a half million copies were printed. The same year, a park was created in her hometown of Newport named "Mary Travers Park".
La Bolduc | Legacy
Daniel "Boom" Desjardins (born 1971) is a French Canadian singer from Val-d'Or, Quebec. He was an original member of the rock band La Chicane for eleven years, from 1993 until 2004, when he left to begin a solo career. Desjardins was nominated for Artist of the Year and Pop Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2006.
Boom Desjardins | Introduction
Paul Brunelle (June 10, 1923 – November 24, 1994) was a singer, songwriter and country guitarist of western Quebec. He is considered the pioneer of country in Quebec and the main source of influence on the artist who would popularize the genre, Willie Lamothe. Brunelle continued with RCA until 1975, and then continued to record on the Bonanza label.
Paul Brunelle | Introduction
Born in Montreal, Quebec, the youngest in a family of seven children, Serge Chapleau grew up in a blue collar neighbourhood in Montréal, where his childhood kingdom was the back alley of rue Drolet. After studying painting and graphic art at the School of Fine Arts in Montreal, Chapleau created in 1971 a caricature of the songbook Gilles Vigneault for "Perspectives", a weekly paper distributed with the Saturday Editions of several Quebec dailys. During the following years, Chapleau collaborated in several other publications, such as "Montréal-Matin", "Week-End", "Actualité" and "Nous". Following "Le Devoir" in 1985, he worked at "Le Matin" in 1987, and 7 Jours from 1989 to 1992.
Serge Chapleau | Biography
Christian Mistral (born November 3, 1964) is a Canadian novelist, poet and songwriter from Quebec. He is most noted for his debut novel "Vamp", which was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 1988 Governor General's Awards. His most famous work as a songwriter, "La lune", was recorded by pop singer Isabelle Boulay for her 1998 album "États d'amour". He has also written songs for Dan Bigras and Luce Dufault, as well as "Un Bateau dans une bouteille", the theme song for Montreal's 350th anniversary celebrations.
Christian Mistral | Introduction
She has also had guests of the Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal perform on some of her recordings. Mathieu Grisé has released a few albums under his moniker Ixe-13, named after the Jacques Godbout 1972 film, and is also part of the collaborative effort Le Chat Blanc Orchestra with Pascal Asselin from Millimetrik.
Destroyalldreamers | Other musical projects
Michel Jourdan and Julie D'Aimé (she had already worked for Patricia Kaas) wrote the text, while Calogero and his brother Gioacchino composed the music, as for the other tracks on the album. The song is a pop/ballad song in which the singer evokes the absence of his father and how he misses him. He expresses that he would be happy if his father had a relationship with him. "Si seulement je pouvais lui manquer" was a part of many French compilations released in 2005, such as "Hits For Teens", "Les Plus Belles Voix 4", "Hit Connection - Best of 2005", "Hits Superstars 2005", "Only Hits 2005" and "Les Plus Belles Ballades".
Si seulement je pouvais lui manquer | Song information
Born and raised in Montreal, he studied piano under Rodolphe Mathieu and drama under Madame Audet. Shortly after, he met his wife, Marie Georgette, and they married soon after. Inspired by the work of Charles Trenet, he began writing songs in the 1940s and started performing in various cabarets around Montreal. In 1947, he had his first significant breakthrough when he was invited to perform several of his songs on CKAC radio. From 1952 to 1954, he was cohost with Colette Bonheur of the variety series "Mes jeunes années" on Radio-Canada. He then spent several years living in France, where he recorded for Barclay Records and had his songs recorded by French artists such as Bourvil, Jean Sablon, Cora Vaucaire and Eddie Constantine.
Raymond Lévesque | Background
Her recording of the song "Qum Tara" was used in the film "A la Place du Coeur" (1998)
Reinette L'Oranaise | Discography
Tremplay was born in Les Éboulements and studied music at the École normale de musique of the Collège Marguerite-Bourgeoys and literature at the Université de Montréal. She taught music for two years at a secondary school in the Côte-Nord region. Tremblay then went on to further studies in journalism, music and literature, receiving a PhD in Quebec literature from Laval University in 1983. During her later studies, she also worked as a freelance researcher and as a host on Radio-Canada radio and television. Tremblay contributed to various journals such as "La Revue Desjardins", "Ma Caisse", "Santé Société", "Rencontres québécoises" and "Estuaire".
Clarisse Tremblay | Life
Anne Renée was born in Laval, Quebec, on 24 August 1950. In 1964, she released her debut song under her real name, Manon Kirouac. She had some success on discs and pursued her career in music until 1968, when she decided to complete her education. Later she started using her pop song name Anne Renee. Her friend, singer Johnny Farago, introduced her to producer Guy Cloutier, who took her under his wing. She became one of the most popular female singers in Quebec with hits like "Un amour d'adolescent" (a translation of a Paul Anka song) and "On trouve l'amour" (by the composer François Bernard of SOCAN).
Anne Renée | Biography
In the nineties, DeShaime collaborated with artists like Diane Dufresne, Mitsou, Mario Pelchat and . His third album, "Histoires d'hommes", was published in 1991 and included songs likes "Je l'aime encore", chosen Song of the Year by Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) and "Et mon cœur en prend plein la gueule", later sung by Isabelle Boulay. In 1992 and 1993, he toured the province first under the Réseau des Organisateurs de Spectacles de l'Est du Québec (ROSEQ) and then as a producer himself. He composed the music and the theme song for the inauguration of the newly restored Capitole de Québec in 1992.
Daniel DeShaime | 1990s
This is a list of singers, bands, composers and other musicians from the province of Quebec.
List of musicians from Quebec | Introduction
Pelchat was born in Dolbeau-Mistassini, Quebec and has performed since 1973. His first 45 RPM single was released in September 1981. His early albums include 1982's "Je suis un chanteur" (I Am a Singer) and "Tu m’as fait mal" (You hurt me) the following year. His 1988 self-titled album and 1990's "Couleur Passion" (The Color of Passion) attained gold record sales status. His 1992 double-platinum album "Pelchat" on the Sony label included a duet with Céline Dion. He also recorded with Belgian singer Maurane on his "Pelchat 2002" album. Pelchat has performed in various theatrical productions. He played the title role in a 1998 musical on the artist Picasso during a European tour.
Mario Pelchat | Biography
Jean-Baptiste Augustin Lavallée (August 22, 1816 – February 15, 1903) was a music teacher, violin maker, conductor and blacksmith in Quebec. His surname also appears as Paquet or Paquet dit Lavallée. He was born near Verchères, Lower Canada, the son of Jean-Baptiste Paquet and Charlotte Lalu. In 1842, Lavallée married Caroline Valentine. He settled in Verchères towards the end of that year. Around 1848, he moved with his family to Saint-Hyacinthe, where he worked with pipe organ manufacturer Joseph Casavant. Lavallée also taught music and conducted the village band. In 1852, he opened an instrument repair shop. In 1865, he moved his business to Montreal.
Augustin Lavallée | Introduction