Jacques Labrecque
Jacques Labrecque (born June 8, 1917 in Saint-Benoît , Québec , † March 18, 1995 in Longueuil ) was a Canadian folk singer and music producer.
Labrecque took singing lessons from Celine Marier , Henri Pontbriand and Roger Filiatrault . the French repertoire with Marie-Thérèse Paquin and harmony with Oscar O'Brien , who inspired him for French-Canadian folk music. He appeared at the age of seventeen (still as a tenor, later his voice was baritone) in radio programs such as Le Réveil rural , played Rigobert in Louis Varney's Les Mousquetaires au couvent at the Variétés lyriques in 1937 , and from 1946 to 1949 he was with Concerts and Artists of New York under contract.
In 1949 he represented Canada at the Folk Festival in Venice and then devoted himself entirely to this music. From 1951 to 1956 he lived mainly in Paris, where he performed with Robert Dhéry's troupe . In addition, he went on concert tours and appeared on the ORTF , the BBC and the London Hippodrome . For Youth and Music Canada (YMC) he gave 80 concerts with the pianist Jean Guillou 1955-56 , after which he settled as a singer and producer for Musicana Records in Montreal.
In addition to traditional folk songs, he also sang songs by new composers such as Jean-Paul Filions La Parenté , Gilles Vigneault's Jos Monferrand and Laurence Lepages Kino l'Indien . He had great success at the Stratford Festival in 1958 and at the Mariposa Folk Festival in 1971. After another tour with the YMC 1970–72, he lived again in Paris from 1972 to 1975. Here he taught French-Canadian folk music at the IPMC and gave concerts in France and other countries.
In 1975 Labrecque returned to Canada and settled in Les Éboulements. In 1976 he presented the series Chansons voltigeantes ... chansons dolentes on Radio Canada , and in 1979 he appeared at the Grand Théâtre de Québec . In the 1980s he headed the Editions et Disques Patrimoine . In addition to his own, she also published the recordings of other singers such as Jean Carignan and the anthology Géographie sonore du Québec , in which songs collected by Ernest Gagnon , Marius Barbeau and Carmen Roy could be heard. In addition, he ran the Galerie du patrimoine in Les Éboulements , in which he exhibited art and documents with regional reference and organized the Veillées de contes espéciales , in which he appeared as a storyteller .
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| SURNAME | Labrecque, Jacques |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian folk singer and music producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Benoît , Quebec |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 1995 |
| Place of death | Longueuil |