Jonathan Roy

	Chart positions ; Explanation of the data
	Albums
	Mr. Optimist Blues

Roy as a player for the Remparts de Québec

Jonathan Roy (born March 15, 1989 in Pointe-Claire , Québec ) is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter and former ice hockey goalkeeper like his father Patrick Roy . His brother Frédérick Roy and his uncle Stéphane Roy were also ice hockey players.

Career

Roy initially pursued a career as a hockey player in the Canadian junior leagues, where he made it to the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ) and guarded the goal for the Remparts de Québec between 2007 and 2009 . However, he gave up this path in favor of music as a teenager. Roy sings in English, although he speaks French fluently, he can neither read nor write it because he went to English schools.

Roy distances himself from the image that stuck to him in 2008 because of a fight at an ice hockey game by not only giving up his sports career, but also embarking on a path in the music industry. Roy had attacked a Saguenéens de Chicoutimi player and was banned for seven games, his father, who was his coach, for five games.

Roy had started writing poetry when he was 13 or 14 and turned his poems into songs by the age of 16 or 17. After previously releasing three albums, his major label debut Mr. Optimist Blues was released in 2017 , which features several songs written by 1980s pop star Corey Hart . It was Corey Hart who encouraged Roy to process his dream of a partner in a song (song title: Daniella Denmark ).

Discography

Albums

What I've Become (2009)
Found My Way (2010)
La route (French, 2011)
Mr. Optimist Blues (2017)

Songs

La route (2012)
Daniella Denmark (2016)
You're My Ace (2016)
Good Things (2017)
Just Us (2019)
Keeping Me Alive (2019)

Web links

Commons : Jonathan Roy - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Jonathan Roy at eliteprospects.com (English)
Jonathan Roy Q&A: The fight, the father, the hit song. In: Sportsnet.ca. Retrieved May 23, 2020(English).
The Beat 92.5: Jonathan Roy tells the story about Daniella Denmark on YouTube , January 26, 2016.

Individual evidence

↑ Mr. Optimist Blues (album) in the Canadian charts
↑ Michel Roy: Patrick Roy: Winning, Nothing Else . John Wiley & Sons, 2010, ISBN 978-0-470-73749-1 ( google.de [accessed May 23, 2020]).
↑ Jonathan Roy guest hosts Global News Morning and reflects on his life in music. Retrieved May 23, 2020 (English).
↑ Patricia Cormack, James F. Cosgrave: Desiring Canada: CBC Contests, Hockey Violence and Other Stately Pleasures . University of Toronto Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4426-1391-1 , pp. 123 ( google.de [accessed on May 16, 2020]).
↑ Stephen Hardy, Andrew C. Holman: Hockey: A Global History . University of Illinois Press, 2018, ISBN 978-0-252-05094-7 ( google.de [accessed May 23, 2020]).
↑ Jonathan Roy Q&A: The fight, the father, the hit song. In: Sportsnet.ca. Retrieved May 23, 2020 (English).

personal data
SURNAME	Roy, Jonathan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian pop singer and songwriter and ice hockey goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH	March 15, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pointe-Claire , Quebec

[CAcharts-1] Mr. Optimist Blues (album) in the Canadian charts

[2] Michel Roy: Patrick Roy: Winning, Nothing Else . John Wiley & Sons, 2010, ISBN 978-0-470-73749-1 ( google.de [accessed May 23, 2020]).

[3] Jonathan Roy guest hosts Global News Morning and reflects on his life in music. Retrieved May 23, 2020 (English).

[4] Patricia Cormack, James F. Cosgrave: Desiring Canada: CBC Contests, Hockey Violence and Other Stately Pleasures . University of Toronto Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4426-1391-1 , pp. 123 ( google.de [accessed on May 16, 2020]).

[5] Stephen Hardy, Andrew C. Holman: Hockey: A Global History . University of Illinois Press, 2018, ISBN 978-0-252-05094-7 ( google.de [accessed May 23, 2020]).

[6] Jonathan Roy Q&A: The fight, the father, the hit song. In: Sportsnet.ca. Retrieved May 23, 2020 (English).