Lionel Parent

Lionel Parent (* 1905 in Labelle / Québec ; † April 8, 1980 in Repentigny ) was a Canadian singer and composer.

Singer Emma Albani's great-nephew came to Nicolet at the age of five, where he sang in the church choir and appeared on the private radio station of the tech-savvy parish priest, making him one of the first Canadian singers to be heard on the radio. Parent moved to New England with his family around 1914. There he appeared in Springfield, Massachusetts, in a performance of the operetta Les Cloches de Corneville .

In 1929 he returned to Montreal. There he appeared in vaudeville performances with his sister Manda Parent . He then became a member of the Troupe du bon vieux temps , led by Mary Bolduc and Jean Grimaldi , and eventually became emcee at cabarets in Québec, Trois-Rivières and Montreal.

In 1935 Parent recorded Notre nid d'amour , a current hit by Tino Rossi, for Herbert Berliner 's Starr label . Further recordings of titles by Rossi and French stars of the time followed. After the German occupation of France, Parent switched to French translations of US hits (including Je ne sourirai plus - I'll Never Smile Again , Ta photo - You Are My Sunshine , Je rêve à toi - I Dream of You , Toujours - Always ). He also recorded about thirty war songs - more than the famous Roland Lebrun . On the radio station CKAC he had his own daily quarter hour program ( Lionel Parent chante ), where he sang his own compositions of patriotic songs such as "Nous sommes Canadiens , La Mort du soldat canadien and Braves Petits Marins . Gene Autrys also found adaptations of country songs himself among his recordings.

Between 1942 and 1944 Parent took on because of a dispute between the American Musicians' Guild with the record companies under the pseudonyms Georges Sauvé and José Lasalle . At the same time, a number of recordings of children's songs were made on the Mignon label. By the time Parent ended his musical career in 1946, he had recorded more than 190 tracks since 1935. After working as a realtor during the 1940s, Parent opened a restaurant in the late 1940s. Occasionally he also appeared on the radio. In 1980 he was killed in a traffic accident.

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SURNAME	Parent, Lionel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian singer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Labelle (Quebec)
DATE OF DEATH	April 8, 1980
Place of death	Repentigny