Jacques Normand (singer)

Jacques Normand (actually Raymond Chouinard ; born April 15, 1922 in Québec , † July 8, 1998 in Montreal ) was a Canadian singer and entertainer.

Normand made his debut in 1941 as a speaker at the radio station CHRC in Québec under the name Raymond Boisseau . After he had interrupted a broadcast with General Charles de Gaulle , a falling out broke out, and he switched to the competing broadcaster CKCV as a singer and entertainer, now under the name Jacques Normand. In 1944 he performed successfully with chansons by Maurice Chevalier at the Bal Tabarin in New York . After returning to Canada, he became chief spokesman for the channel CKVL, where he presented the program La parade de la chansonnette française with Jacques Desbaillets , later with Guy Maufette and from 1947 to 1950 the program Le fantôme au clavier with Billy Munro .

In 1949 he opened the Cabaret Faisan Doré in Montreal, where Charles Aznavour and Pierre Roche , Jacques and Charles Trenet , Aglaé , Estelle Caron , Fernand Gignac , Raymond Lévesque , Monique Leyrac , Dominique Michel , Muriel Millard and Serge Deyglun performed. He made his debut on CBC television in 1952 as the presenter of the show Café des artistes . From 1962 to 1969 he co-hosted the show Les couche-tard alongside Roger Baulu . In 1994 he was awarded the Chevalier des Ordre national du Québec .

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SURNAME	Normand, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Chouinard, Raymond; Boisseau, Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian singer and entertainer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 15, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH	Quebec City
DATE OF DEATH	July 8, 1998
Place of death	Montreal