Daniel Lavoie
Daniel Lavoie (born 17 March 1949 in Dunrea, Manitoba ) is a French-Canadian singer-songwriter, pianist and actor.
Lavoie learned as a child to a Jesuit school to play the piano, loved to sing and wrote early songs; than 18 years (1967 ) he won the competition for a radio station in the " composer and performer ." His lyrics sang ( and sings ) he in French and English, and after he had played in two small Christian pop bands, he joined in 1970 for the first time alone in the province of Quebec, where he then sat down and played in clubs and cafes. His first two LPs ( à Court Terme 1973 Berceuse Pour un Lion 1974) remained relatively unnoticed; only the single J'ai Quitte Mon Ile was a moderate success, even if not in his native country, but in France and - under the title Deixei miha terra - in Brazil and Portugal.
Achievements
A large audience within and outside Canada Daniel Lavoie became known only with his third LP Nirvana Bleu (1979 ), of the particular songs Angéline, La Danse du Smatte and boule qui Roule were very often played on the radio. The album, which he had also recorded in English, brought him not only a good reviews, but also sold well and led to a three-week engagement at the Petit Montparnasse district of Paris. In Canada, he was in 1980 awarded the Félix for Best Male Artist of the Year. 1981 published two new LPs, Craving in English and Aigre - doux, How are You? in French, but no commercial success was. Nevertheless, he received this year again the " Félix " and gave out in Canada and in turn several concerts in France, Belgium and Switzerland. End of 1983, he then managed the big breakthrough with the album Tension, in which he had invested 15 months work and a substantial amount of money, for which he alone was sold in Canada almost 250,000 times and in 1984 the same award three times: for the cooperation with Daniel DeShaime composed song Tension Attention, for the third time as a singer of the year and as the best singer-songwriter. The decoupling Ils s'aiment (recorded in four languages ) was sold in around two million copies, won the Midem in Cannes d'Or in 1985 and earned him except another Félix (this time as the most important French-language Musician of the Year ) and a one-week appearance at the Paris Olympia, which he repeated in 1987.
Lavoie won almost every year more Félix trophies and other awards, including the Médaille Jacques- Blanchet (1986 ), with Vue sur la Mer ( 1987) published a new successful album and in 1988 invited by Liza Minnelli in her TV special LIZA, in which he two of his new title in English recited. In addition, he was active in many ways socially: he joined in September of this year, together with Michel Rivard, Sting, Peter Gabriel and Bruce Springsteen at a charity concert in aid of the " Human Rights Now " campaign by Amnesty International in the Montreal Olympic Stadium on, was speaker of the Association for French-speaking education in Canada and supported a foundation for the study of juvenile diabetes.
Style and other development
Musically Daniel Lavoie in the tradition of French chanson, but also the Anglo-American country music, these two styles go very own mix in his songs and are often enriched by elements of modern jazz. In many of his concerts and joined, the artist even without band, accompanied his singing with only piano playing. His lyrics are often poetic nature that let the listener with their metaphors, associations and allusions space to own interpretation. His own taste in music is multifaceted: to his personal favorites he counts Dream Woman ( Waylon Jennings ), Money for Nothing ( Dire Straits ), Sad Eyes Lady (Bob Dylan ), Dimanche à Orly ( Gilbert Becaud ), Babylon Sisters ( Steely Dan ) and Kind of Blue ( Miles Davis).
His album Long Courrier ( on, inter alia, Le Pape du Jours de Plaine and rap ) was in Canada in 1990 pop-rock LP of the year; 1991 Daniel Lavoie first played a supporting role in the film Le Fabuleux Voyage de l'Ange by Jean -Pierre Lefebvre, to which he also wrote the soundtrack. In the rock opera sand et les Romantiques successively arrived in Canada and France for the performance in 1992/93, he slipped into the role of the painter Eugène Delacroix and even had a brief appearance in the TV Schmonzette General Hospital. Two English-language LPs ( Here in the Heart and Woman to Man, published in 1992 and 1994 ) may also be of Anglo-American fan base grew.
1996 and published in 1997, who grew up, even with five siblings, father of three two albums of children's songs (Le Bébé Dragon 1 and 2), for which he again a " Félix " reaped, this time in the category of children's plates. In the following two years he lived partly in Paris, where he appeared in the role of Dom Frollo on the side of Bruno Pelletier and Luck Mervil in the musical drama Notre- Dame de Paris, in English also for four months in 2000 London was performed. 1998/99 was the soundtrack of this musical for a total of 17 weeks and the single from the Belle for 18 weeks at number one of the French charts. In addition, he composed further, among other things, for three animated films ( Ludovic ) of Co Haedeman, but also songs for Mireille Mathieu, Nana Mouskouri and Roch Voisine, and was seen in another film and stage roles: as Romanian exile Johnny in Claude Fournier's The Book Eva - Ticket to Paradise (2002), as a pilot in a musical version of Saint- Exupéry's Le Petit Prince ( 2002/ 03) and finally in the lead role of the television series about the poet Félix Leclerc, which aired in 2004. This year, another album was released, titled Comédies Humaines. Suitable for his role, he published the following year, his 19th album Moi, mon Félix.
In early 2007 came the LP Docteur Tendresse out in Canada and France; the same time as Daniel Lavoie appeared at another benefit concert against poverty in old age ( Vivre vieux, mieux vivre ). In 2011 he released his album J'écoute la radio. In the same year Lavoie published his first literary work, titled Finutilité; It includes previously unpublished lyrics.
Daniel Lavoie, married his second wife, Louise Dubuc since 1988, lives today - if he is not on concert tours or stage rehearsals go - on a farm near Montreal.