Pauline Julien
Pauline Julien (born May 23, 1928 in Trois-Rivières , † October 1, 1998 in Montreal ) was a Canadian singer and actress.
life and work
Pauline Julien was a member of the Comédiens de la Nef in Quebec and the Compagnie du Masque in Montreal from 1947 to 1951 . In 1950 she married the actor Jacques Galipeau . In 1951 she went to Paris, where she took part as a singer in theater productions and appeared in clubs, on radio and television with a repertoire of songs by Kurt Weill , Bertolt Brecht , Léo Ferré and Boris Vian . After separating from Galipeau in 1957, she worked alternately in Paris and Montreal. In 1961/62 she played Jenny in Brecht's Threepenny Opera at the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde in Montreal.
The first of her 23 solo albums, Enfin ... Pauline Julien (1962) and Pauline Julien (1963) , were released in the early 1960s . She performed with Claude Gauthier and Claude Léveillée . At the International Song Festival in Sopot , she won second prize in 1964 with Gilles Vigneault's Jack Monoloy . In the late 1960s and early 1970s she sang mostly songs by Québec authors, after which she began to write her own lyrics. In 1969 she interpreted a French version of Leonard Cohen's song Suzanne on the LP Comme je crie, comme je chante .
In the 1970s, her repertoire included music by François Dompierre , Claude Dubois , Stephane Venne , Pierre Flynn , Gerry Boulet , Gaston Brisson , François Cousineau, and Jacques Marchand ; she also set poems by Michel Tremblay to music . During this time she performed at the Mariposa Folk Festival (1971) at Camp Fortune near Ottawa (1973) and at the National Arts Center (1971, 1972 and 1974) and toured the Soviet Union in 1967 and 1975.
Until the end of her career as a solo singer in 1986, Julien made numerous tours through Canada and Europe and performed at festivals. Even after that she took part in individual projects, including with her second husband, the poet Gérald Godin and with the actress Hélène Loiselle . She has also appeared in theater productions such as Brecht's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1984), Heiner Müller's Verkommenes Ufer Medeamaterial Landscape with Argonauts (1990), Victor Lévy Beaulieu's La Maison cassée (1991) and Les Muses au musée in the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal (1992). She also occasionally took part in film and television productions, such as Three Woman with Maureen Forrester and Sylvia Tyson on CBC television .
Julien was twice awarded the Grand Prix du Disque (1970, 1985) and the Prix de musique Calixa-Lavallée (1974). She was honored as Chevalier des Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1994 and as Chevalier des Ordre national du Québec in 1997 . In Montreal, the Center des arts de la scène Pauline-Julien , Montréal's Salle Pauline Julien and the Center Pauline-Julien were named after her. In her final years, Julien suffered from degenerative aphasia . She took her own life when she was seventy.
Discography
- 1962: Enfin ... Pauline Julien
- 1963: Pauline Julien
- 1964: Pauline Julien à la Comédie canadienne (live)
- 1964: Solidad et Barbarie (for children)
- 1966: Pauline Julien chants Boris Vian
- 1967: Suite québécoise
- 1969: Comme je crie, comme je chante ...
- 1971: Fragile
- 1972: Au milieu de ma vie, peut-être la veille de ...
- 1973: Aller voir, vous avez des ailes
- 1973: Pour mon plaisir ... Gilles Vigneault
- 1974: License complète
- 1975: Pauline Julien en scène (live)
- 1976: Tout ou rien (live)
- 1977: Femmes de paroles
- 1978: Mes amies d'filles
- 1978: Les Sept Péchés capitaux
- 1980: Fleur de peau
- 1980: Je vous entends chanter
- 1982: Charade
- 1984: Où peut-on vous toucher?
- 1988: Gémeaux croisées (live, with Anne Sylvestre )
Filmography (selection)
- 1967: Between the Worlds (Entre la mer et l'eau douce)
- 1973: Death of a woodcutter (La mort d'un bûcheron)
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Julien, Pauline |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian singer and actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trois-Rivières |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 1, 1998 |
| Place of death | Montreal |