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.
Early life and education
Calixa Lavallée
Calixa Lavallée | Early life and education
Born near Verchères, Quebec in Canada Montreal in the Province of Canada He was a French-Canadian-American musician and Union Army band musician. Calixte Paquet dit Lavallée near Verchères, a village near present-day Montreal.
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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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
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 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
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
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
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 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
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
Carignan was born in Plessisville and earned a bachelor's degree in Music Education from the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), a B.Mus. and a M.Mus. in composition and a PhD in comparative and intercultural education from the Université de Montréal.
Nicole Carignan | Early life and education
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
Llugdar was born in Argentina. She earned a Bachelor of Music degree in piano performance from the National University of Córdoba in 1999. She then entered the graduate music program at Laval University in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, but soon transferred to the Université de Montréal where she graduated with a Master of Music and a Doctor of Music in composition. Among her teachers at the school were José Evangelista and Denis Gougeon.
Analia Llugdar | Early life and education
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 to an Uruguayan father and a Swiss mother and raised in Sherbrooke, Quebec, she was trained in classical violin. Always athletic, she left home at 17 to pursue a career as a snowboarder in British Columbia. There, she purchased a guitar and began to write her own music.
Carole Facal | Early life
He was born on December 26, 1860 in Saint-Maurice, Mauricie.
Pierre-Calixte Neault | Early life
Lavalle was born in Beacon, New York, the son of Ralph and Jennie Usifer, both Italian immigrants. Graduating from Beacon High School, he planned to study law at Columbia University. After winning a scholarship there, Lavalle studied music at the Juilliard School and was a student of composition of Joseph Schillinger. He performed in many 1930s bands, including one in Havana, Cuba. In 1933 he became an arranger and clarinetist in the NBC house orchestra. His composition "Symphonic Rhumba" (1939), was broadcast by the NBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski, on December 6, 1942.
Paul Lavalle | Early years
Mathieu Chantelois was born and raised in Mascouche, a suburb just outside Montreal, Quebec. He studied at Pierre Laporte Secondary School, a musical academy in Montreal. He is a graduate of Carleton University's journalism program, and in 2018, he completed a certificate in strategic perspectives in nonprofit management at Harvard Business School.
Mathieu Chantelois | Early life and education
Tomiuk, who was raised in Montreal, graduated from Loyola Marmount University with a degree in Biology and a minor in Music in 2007.
Rosanna Tomiuk | Early Life and education
At age sixteen, she completed her education with a degree from a private institution for girls, and from then on devoted herself to music.
Luise Adolpha Le Beau | Early life
Camille Lou was born 22 May 1992 in Bersillies, near Maubeuge. Her father was a singer and guitarist for the group Paradoxe, thus she and her two older sisters were exposed to music at a young age, each later learning to play an instrument, Camille played the violin. At the age of twelve, she won a local singing competition, les Voix de Noël, in Hautmont. She attended lycée Notre-Dame de Grâce à Maubeuge. After having obtained her baccalaureate she attended the University of Valenciennes.
Camille Lou | Early life
Antonioli was born in Marin County. California. At the age of sixteen she began playing guitar and performing primarily her own original music as well as that of the singer-songwriters of the era. In 1975 she won the American Songwriters Contest for high school students. She studied jazz at Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham, Oregon and Cal State Long Beach. Private teachers included Mark Murphy and Joe Henderson.
Laurie Antonioli | Early life and education
Mon Laferte was born Norma Monserrat Bustamante Laferte in Viña del Mar, Chile. She started her career at the age of 9, after winning a guitar in a singing contest. She received a scholarship to attend a musical conservatory in Viña del Mar at the age of 13, and soon after began playing in bars in Valparaíso and Santiago.
Mon Laferte | Early life and education
Lavalle graduated from the Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education with a degree in accounting in 1998. He has a degree in Finance from the University of Lincoln, and a Master in Senior Management and International Business at the Universidad del Mayab.
Jorge Luis Lavalle Maury | Early Life and Education
Born in Lévis, Lower Canada, from 1854 to 1860 Fréchette did his classical studies at the Séminaire de Québec, the Collège de Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière and at the Séminaire de Nicolet. He later studied law at Université Laval.
Louis-Honoré Fréchette | Early life and education
Cailles was born in Nasugbu, Batangas, to Hippolyte Cailles, from Lyon, France and María Kauppama of Kerala in what was then British India. He was the fifth of seven children together with siblings León, Julia, Isidoro, Julio, Victoria and Cecilia. His early education was at the house of Olvidio Caballero and he graduated from the Jesuit-run Escuela Normal in Manila (now Ateneo de Manila University). He became a teacher and taught for five years in the public schools of Amaya, Tanza and Rosario, Cavite.
Juan Cailles | Early life
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
Jaramillo was born in Calacalí, in 1904. Her parents, Isaac Jaramillo Jaramillo and Natalia Jaramillo, were farmers. She grew in a musical family, one of her uncles and her maternal grandfather were musicians. Carlota studied in her hometown primary school and attended the “Manuela Cañizares” normal school in Quito to graduate as a teacher.
Carlota Jaramillo | Early life
Cadieux was born in Montreal, Quebec. He studied at the Collège André Grasset, obtained a Master's degree in law from the Université de Montréal, and studied constitutional law at McGill University in Montreal.
Marcel Cadieux | Early life and education
Lawrence was born in Elk Point, Alberta. At the age of thirteen he began performing on the saxophone with his father's jazz band in night clubs in Victoria. He attended the University of British Columbia.
Claire Lawrence | Early life
Calixto Cataquiz was born in Manila. His parents were Rodolfo C. Catáquiz of Unisan, Quezon, and Rosa T. Ramírez of San Pedro, Laguna. His parents were the pioneers of the "balút" industry in San Pedro. Calex, as his family members and friends call him, grew up in his mother's hometown. He was an only child from an affluent family. Cataquiz had his elementary education first in San Pedro Central Elementary School (1959–1961), then he transferred to Canossa School of Santa Rosa, Laguna (1961–1965). He spent his high school and college days in San Beda College, Manila where he took up Bachelor of Science in Commerce (Management).
Calixto Cataquiz | Early life and education
Once he completed his classical education at the age of nineteen, Laval left La Flèche to further pursue his education in philosophy and theology at the College de Clermont in Paris.
François de Laval | Early life
Álvaro Carrillo Alarcón was born in 1921 to parents of Mestizo descent. He absorbed many types of musical influence while growing up in San Juan Cacahuatepec, Oaxaca. In 1940, Carrillo enrolled in the National Agricultural School in Chapingo, where he composed his first songs as a student. In 1945, he graduated in Agricultural Engineering.
Álvaro Carrillo | Early life and education
Julieta Cazzucheli was born on 16 December 1993 in Ledesma, Jujuy. She had been interested in music since she was eleven years old. She started singing with her father, who was also a musician and who inspired her to become one. When she finished high school, she moved to Tucumán to study cinematography and, some time after, she moved to the Buenos Aires Province to study graphic design.
Cazzu | Early life
Fontamillas was born on June 20, 1967 in Pasay City in the Philippines. When he was three years old, his family moved to the United States, where they lived in Chicago and then California. He started taking piano lessons when he was a child. In 1985, Fontamillas graduated from Monterey Bay Academy in Watsonville, California.
Jerome Fontamillas | Early life and education
Francois was born and raised in Orange County, California. She was a regular attendee of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Placentia, California for many years. Born into a musically talented family, she began singing at a young age. She learned how to play violin as a child, then taught herself to play guitar in high school. Upon graduating high-school as valedictorian of her class of 480 students, Francois found her passion, and became actively involved in youth ministry, which she continues with today.
Jackie Francois | Early life
Zaldivar was born in Pandan, Antique, Philippines. He graduated in law from the University of the Philippines in 1928 and was the third placer in that year's bar examination.
Calixto Zaldivar | Early life and Education
DuBois was born in Montreal, Quebec. He began writing his own music at age seven, and shortly after, began performing at Vancouver's Granville Island on weekends. While in elementary school, DuBois was invited to join the British Columbia Children's Honour Choir. In high school he participated in drama and musical clubs.
Jerome Xavier DuBois | Early life
Lavalle was raised in the Flushing and Rosedale neighborhoods of Queens, New York by a single mother who had emigrated from Uganda in her twenties. He attended Woodmere Academy and went on to earn a degree in English from Cornell University and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Columbia University.
Victor LaValle | Early life
Florian and Olivio were born from an Argentinian father, Fabian, and a French mother of Algerian descent, and grew up in the Minimes district of Toulouse, in the Occitanie region. They both received a solid musical and instrumental training from childhood, Olivio studying trumpet and Florian the drums and piano at the conservatoire de Toulouse. It was after hearing Sully Sefil's song "J'voulais", released in 2001, that the two brothers started rapping, aged nine and six respectively. Their parents had already introduced them to music: their father is a salsa singer and their mother listened to a lot of chanson française when they were children (Jacques Brel, Charles Aznavour and Francis Cabrel in particular).
Bigflo &amp; Oli | 1993–2005: Early life
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
She also contributed to the song "La Vie la Nuit" in its soundtrack. She attended Sciences Po Paris just before beginning her music career.
Camille (singer) | Early life
Beauvais completed a Bachelor of Music in Music Performance at the University of Toronto. Shortly after graduation he won first prize both at the Canadian Music Competition and in the Carrefour Mondial de Guitare in Martinque.
William Beauvais | Early life
Flores was born in the poor neighborhood of La Chacarita, in Asunción. As a kid, he had to work as a paperboy and shoeshiner in order to help his mother with food and other necessities. At the early age of 11 he had already joined the Capital Police marching band and was a student of composer Félix Fernández and the director Salvador Déntice. In 1922 he made his first composition, a polka song named "Manuel Gondra".
José Asunción Flores | Early life
Mannix was born Camille Bernice Froomess on February 19, 1906 in New York City. Her father, Charles, was a French immigrant, and her mother, Elizabeth, was a French Canadian Roman Catholic. The large family would ultimately include 11 children: seven boys and four girls. The children were raised in their mother's faith. Mannix's father was a department store window decorator in Rochester, New York, and her mother was a homemaker.
Toni Mannix | Early life
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
Westmoreland-Traoré was born in Verdun, now part of Montreal, Quebec, in 1942, the daughter of immigrants from Guyana. She studied at Marianopolis College, and subsequently obtained a law degree from the Université de Montréal (1966) and a doctorate from the University of Paris.
Juanita Westmoreland-Traoré | Early life and education
Leonard received his musical education at the Royal Academy of Music and the École Normale de Musique de Paris.
Lawrence Leonard | Early life and education
Calbes was born in Aparri, Cagayan in the Philippines. In 1961, she completed a diploma in education. Calbes was also awarded a scholarship with The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.
Eleanor Calbes | Early life and education
In 2000, she went to Paris to study at the Conservatoire de Paris.
Laure Calamy | Early life
Juliet Lyons was born in Stanford, CA and grew up in Albuquerque, NM. She graduated from UMKC Conservatory of Music and earned a Bachelor for Music - Vocal Performance and a Bachelor of Music Education.
Juliet Lyons | Early life
A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Rebolledo graduated from Union High School in 1990. He later graduated from the Manhattan School of Music.
Julián Rebolledo | Early life and education
LeBlanc was born in Saint-Étienne-de-Lauzon. His initial musical training was as a pop and jazz guitarist. He then pursued studies in classical guitar and music composition at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal. He is currently pursuing a Doctor of Music degree at the Schulich School of Music at McGill University.
Jimmie LeBlanc | Early life and education
People close to Napoleon tell stories of how he would compose songs on restaurant napkins. Years later, Napoleon earned a LL. B. from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, California.
Napoleon Andrew Tuiteleleapaga | Early life
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
Laforte was born in Kénogami. He studied in Chicoutimi, the Université Laval, and finally the Université de Montréal.
Conrad Laforte | Early life and education
Cadeau was born in 1966 in Haiti. At the age of seven, she and her mom moved to Quebec City, Quebec, where she was raised. Her mom wanted her to learn English, so she was enrolled in a private Christian school.
Dayana Cadeau | Early life and education
Lavigueur was born in Quebec City, Lower Canada. He attended the Petit Séminaire de Québec, but left to devote his time to musical pursuits. He studied violin with an amateur musician, François Huot. He learned to play several more instruments with little formal training.
Célestin Lavigueur | Early life and education
When he was 12 he won first place in boys vocals at The Royal Conservatory of Music.
Sergio Navarretta | Early life and education
Lucelle Dumont was born on January 20, 1919, in Montreal, Quebec. At a young age, she was encouraged by her mother – who possessed a somewhat unorthodox attitude for the time – to perform on a radio station.
Lucille Dumont | Early life
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
Rubiano was born on August 16, 1960, to Eduardo Calixto and Leonora Gallado Calixto. She was educated at the Malate Catholic School at primary and secondary level, and she graduated at the University of Santo Tomas in 1982.
Imelda Calixto-Rubiano | Early life and education
Born in Loretteville, Quebec, she was educated at Collège Notre-Dame-de-Bellevue, the Séminaire de Québec, and the Université Laval.
Chrystine Brouillet | Early life
Marcel Jules Léon Cuvelier was born in Brussels on May 22, 1899. After having attended classic high school education, he frequented the courses of law school at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and was named Doctor of Law. He was passionate about sports and participated at the Olympic Games of 1920 and 1924 as part of the national fencing team.
Jeunesses Musicales International | Early years and education
Rivera was born in Guayama, Puerto Rico to parents Vicenta Senquis and Carmelo Rivera. At the age of 14, Rivera discovered his passion for singing when composer Alfonso Pillot gave him the opportunity to sing in his band.
Chamaco Rivera | Early life
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
Born in a family of eleven children, he studied at Saint-Joseph seminar and at Laval University where he obtained a baccalaureate in arts. After studying Philosophy at the Saint Paul University of Ottawa, he graduated in Social Sciences in 1973. He teaches at Cégep de Trois-Rivières and becomes parish priest at Sainte-Thèrèse parish.
Martin Veillette | Early life and education
Broussard was born and raised in Lafayette, Louisiana. At the age of 10 her family moved to Philadelphia where she began playing the guitar and writing songs.
Lelia Broussard | Early life and education
LaCroix attended the Westlake College of Music in Los Angeles.
Pat LaCroix | Early life and education
Born in Manhattan, New York City, Calissi spent his early years in an orphanage in Kearny, New Jersey. Offered a college scholarship, he chose to decline it so that he could earn a living and graduated in 1941 from John Marshall Law School.
Guy W. Calissi | Early life and education
Raised in Jersey City, New Jersey, Trapanese attended Dr. Ronald E. McNair Academic High School before moving on to the Manhattan School of Music.
Joseph Trapanese | Early life and education
Born in Montreal, Chamberland began his musical training in his native city with Jean A. Duquette before entering the conservatory at McGill University where he was a pupil of Alfred De Sève. His sister Luce was a concert pianist and was married to bassist Ulysse Paquin.
Albert Chamberland | Early life and education
Luce was born in Perpignan and studied nursing in Montpellier. She also practiced the flute following courses at the Conservatory of dramatic art between 2008 and 2009.
Luce (singer) | Early life
He recorded Russian-American conductor Andre Kostelanetz and a 65-piece orchestra at CBS' studio in New York.
Jorge Calandrelli | Early life and career
Other teachers included Edwin Finckel and James Sellars. As a student, he won an ASCAP Young Composers Award and first prize in the annual CRS New Music Competition. Upon graduation, he was appointed to the Juilliard faculty.
Lawrence Dillon | Early life and education
Born in Palmira, Valle del Cauca, Robayo studied Law at Pontifical Xavierian University in Cali.
Catalina Robayo | Early life
She then taught for one year, before moving to Montreal, Quebec, where her singing/songwriting career started in earnest.
Angèle Arsenault | Early life
When he was very young, his parents moved to Mexico City where he resides currently. He studied drama in the Andrés Soler Institute from 1979 to 1982.
Mario Castañeda | Early life and education
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
In 2006, Azrieli obtained a Master of Music degree in Vocal Performance from the Université de Montréal, and then in 2011 a Doctorate in Music from the same university.
Sharon Azrieli | Early life and education
She earned a master's degree in music from the Manhattan School of Music and a master's degree in music education at the City University of New York. She also studied Latin music with Louis Bauzo at Boys Harbor Conservatory, and with Jerry Gonzalez.
Annette A. Aguilar | Early life and education
Horacio Molina released the song as a single —without his young daughter knowing—which sold 45 thousand copies. She also performed the song live with her father on national television. In 1976, the family left for Paris, France, due to the military dictatorship that overthrew president Isabel Martínez de Perón. While in Paris, she listened to what is now known as "world music" on French radio stations. In various interviews, Molina has recalled a visit to a Spanish hippie family friend who introduced her to Indian classical music, whose drones have had an enduring influence on her music. In 1981, Molina returned to Buenos Aires.
Juana Molina | Early life
They started singing together at a very young age as they took music as a hobby. In 2008 they came to Portugal to pursue their professional degrees on the music industry. Fradique pursued a degree in Multimedia in Évora and António, a degree in Video Production in Lisbon. In 2011 they went to France with their family and kept on doing music, as they created their cover channel on YouTube.
Calema | Early life
Moffatt grew up in Saint-Romuald, a suburb of Quebec City on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. After completing Grade 11, she moved to Montreal where she earned a Diplôme d'études collégiales in music at Cégep de Saint-Laurent, then a Baccalauréat in popular music and classical singing from UQAM.
Ariane Moffatt | Early life
Daigneault grew up in Montreal's Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighborhood and attended St. Ignatius of Loyola School. She later went to Villa Sainte-Marcelline in Westmount for grades 5 through 11. A member of the Questo Rhythmic Gymnastic Club, Daigneault was a rhythmic gymnast from the age of 5 to 17. She competed in the Canada Games in the mid-90s, and was part of the Canadian Junior National team in 1997. During her youth, she learned hard work and discipline, and she also became intensely interested in music, always looking for the next great track to use for a gymnastics routine. Daigneault studied classical piano with teacher Joan Pierrepoint until she was 16, and started composing for piano around 11 years old.
Quilla (musician) | Early life
Calixto Alvarez (Santa Isabel de las Lajas, Cuba, 1938) is a Cuban composer.
Calixto Alvarez | Introduction
Natale's musical life began with listening to his eldest sister, Mary, playing classics and popular standards at the living room piano, followed by his own piano studies at age 8, adding accordion at 12 and guitar and percussion in his teens, when he began writing songs and singing and playing in local bands.
Lou Natale | Early life
Acosta was born in Bradford, Pennsylvania. The eldest of three children, his parents were popular musicians during the Big Band era: Kay Bratton, Acosta's mother, was a jazz singer and his father, Alex Acosta, a drummer. During the first eleven years of Acosta's life, the road was home. He traveled around the country wherever his parents performed. He began a precocious education in music, art and theater at the age of eight. Acosta went on to study at Tomlinson Technical Institute, Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, and the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, California.
Armondo Linus Acosta | Early life and education
Dubeau was born in Saint-Norbert, Quebec, the seventh of eight children. She first studied the violin with Father Rolland Brunelle at the Joliette music camp, at Jean Cousineau's Les Petits Violons. She went on to graduate as a First-Prize winner from the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal. She studied at the Juilliard School of Music in New York with Dorothy DeLay and later went to Romania to work with Ştefan Gheorghiu from 1981 until 1984.
Angèle Dubeau | Early life and education
Desputeaux was born in Quebec City, Quebec and received a Bachelor of Arts in visual arts from Laval University and a BEd from the Université du Québec à Montréal.
Hélène Desputeaux | Early life and education
LaRue was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, United States, but moved to Glenside, Pennsylvania when she was young. She began her musical education studying dance and violin. Her family moved to Los Angeles, California where she earned an Associate's Degree in Music from Los Angeles City College. She later received a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education from California State University.
Florence LaRue | Early life
Calvé was born on 15 August 1858 in Decazeville, Aveyron. Her birth name was Rosa Emma Calvet. Her father, Justin Calvet, was a civil engineer. She spent her childhood at first in Spain with her parents, then in different convent schools in Roquefort and Tournemire (Aveyron). After her parents separated, she moved with her mother to Paris. There she attempted to enter the Paris Conservatory, while she studied singing under Jules Puget. She started learning music in Paris from Mathilde Marchesi, a retired German mezzo-soprano and Manuel García. She made a tour of Italy, where she saw the famous actress Eleonora Duse, whose impersonations made a deep impression on the young singer.
Emma Calvé | Early life
She began writing songs and poetry at an early age, but was too shy to sing in front of anyone until her late teens. Towards the end of high school, she had a brief stint as a bassist in a local Montreal punk band with several friends. During her college years at Dawson College and McGill University, she gained valuable experience playing keyboards in several indie rock bands, as well as a 7-piece social justice Afrobeat funk band named Music Mind Movement. Throughout her formative years, she was heavily influenced by Montreal’s free jazz and experimental electronic music community, and played in many venues in her home city.
Quilla (musician) | Early life
CAM, born Cameron Rodriguez, was born in Santa Monica, California on September 2, 1981. He graduated from Loyola High School in 1999 and Loyola Marymount University in 2003.
CaliCam | Early life
A video of the song was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in December 2010 by filmmaker Greg Riccio Jr. supporting the Free Hugs Campaign to promote random acts of kindness.
Michéal Castaldo | Early life and musical career
Son of Paul Léveillée and Kendall Roy was raised in Saint-Quentin, New Brunswick. He is of France, Spain and Britain descent. He graduated Sir Wilfrid Laurier School Board, Quebec High School and Université Laval. He is co-founder of Fanatic Film production in collaboration with Marie-Helene Jodoin.
Jason Roy-Léveillée | Early life
Fimbres was born in Upland, California, to Mexican American parents. The youngest child in her family, Fimbres attended both Space High School and Claremont High School. Fimbres was singing from an early age. During her high school years she was a member of a pop ensemble, Intrigue. Before Fimbres auditioned for "Making the Band 3" she was three semesters short of completing a degree in education, with the intention of becoming a kindergarten teacher — a back-up plan to singing that she had promised her parents she would have.
Aundrea Fimbres | Early life
Born in Galdakao, since 1998 she has been in many groups of different styles, and was once given the nickname of 'la Céline' (Galdakao's reference to their very own Celine Dion).
Ainhoa Cantalapiedra | Early life
Bartelle was born in Farroupilha, Rio Grande do Sul. He studied at Universidade de Caxias do Sul, graduating with a bachelor's degree in Law.
Alexandre Grendene Bartelle | Early life and education
Riedeselle was born in Montreal and raised in New York state. She had a farm in Connecticut, and studied osteopathy in St. Louis, Missouri.
Marie Riedeselle | Early life and education
Duarte was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, to Cuban parents. Growing up, she also lived in Puerto Rico and Florida. She graduated from DePaul University with a bachelor of arts in communications.
Lourdes Duarte | Early life and education