Hector Pellerin

Hector Pellerin (born October 31, 1887 in Montreal , † October 18, 1953 ) was a Canadian singer, actor and entertainer.

Pellerin completed piano and organ training with Alexis Contant and Joseph-Daniel Dussault and began his musical career as a silent film pianist at the Ouimetoscope. From 1909 to 1911 he was organist in Amesbury, Massachusetts, after which he returned to Montreal and appeared there as an actor at the Théâtre Canadien (1911-12), the Théâtre Chanteclerc (1912-14) and the Théâtre National (1914-16) .

From 1916 onwards, the labels Columbia Records , His Master's Voice and Starr made recordings of songs by Henri Christinés and Fragsons and French adaptations of Tin-Pan-Alley titles. He sang Irving Berlin's "Everybody's Doing It Now" ("C'est pour vous!"), George Gershwins and Irving Caesar's "Swanee", " Yes! We Have No Bananas " ("Oui, des bananes on en a") by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn and "For Me and My Gal" ("Pour toi et pour moi") by George W. Meyer , Edgar Leslie and E. Ray Goetz , but also songs by Canadian composers such as Gitz Rice's "Dear Old Pal of Mine "and own compositions (e.g. Quand on est vieux ). He followed the trend of exotic South Sea music with titles such as Liliʻuokalanis Aloha ʻOe .

At the suggestion of Henri Miro and Albert Roberval , Pellerin also turned to operetta. He sang in La Petite bohème and Ma mie Rosette and appeared alongside Jeanne Maubourg in Edmond Audran's Gilette de Narbonne . In the cabaret he performed his own songs, in which he accompanied himself in the style of Fragson . Pellerin had been active for radio since 1920. At CKAC Montréal he had regular broadcasts from 1933 to 1943; the Canadian Elma Hair Waver Co. Limited , sponsor of the show, published a songbook of his most popular French chansons.

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SURNAME	Pellerin, Hector
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian singer, actor and entertainer
DATE OF BIRTH	October 31, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH	Montreal
DATE OF DEATH	October 18, 1953
Place of death	Montreal