Jean-Pierre Ferland, the singer-songwriter who turned a fixture of Quebec’s cultural panorama over a profession that spanned greater than six a long time, died Saturday on the age of 89.
The company representing Ferland confirmed the singer, who’s signature music “une likelihood qu’on s’a” is thought to be a basic of Quebec music, died of pure causes after being hospitalized earlier this 12 months.
Born in Montreal on June 24, 1934, Ferland was a prolific artist who produced some 30 albums, together with the culturally vital “Jaune,” which offered some 60,000 copies in a 12 months after its launch in 1970.
He was named an officer of the Order of Canada and a knight of the Nationwide Order of Quebec, and was inducted into Canada’s Songwriters Corridor of Fame in 2007.
Ferland held a live performance at Montreal’s Bell Centre in 2007 to formally mark his retirement after a greater than four-decade-long profession, however continued to carry out and document up till 2021.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, writing on X, described Ferland as a “big” of francophone music.
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“He wrote and sang songs that shall be part of Quebec tradition without end,” Trudeau wrote. “He shall be dearly missed.”
Quebec Premier François Legault described Ferland as a “nice builder of Quebec-French music,” including that he’d listened to “Jaune” on repeat.
Canadian singer Roch Voisine paid tribute to an artist he described as “incomparable.”
“His album ‘Jaune’ modified every little thing,” Voisine stated. “And all of the songs that adopted. Relaxation in peace, Mr. Ferland.”
Whereas he initially labored as an accountant, Ferland turned a fixture on the province’s cultural scene a couple of years after he recorded his first songs in 1958.
He began making a reputation for himself in each Quebec and internationally within the Nineteen Sixties earlier than the discharge of “Jaune” in 1970.
Ferland took his first steps into tv and films within the Nineteen Seventies, and would turn out to be an actor, scriptwriter and host for a number of productions.
Whereas a 2006 stroke prompted his official retirement, he continued to carry out and document, it didn’t finally halt his output. Notable performances included at a 2008 live performance on Quebec Metropolis’s Plains of Abraham to rejoice the town’s four-hundredth anniversary with fellow Quebec stars together with Céline Dion and Ginette Reno. He additionally launched quite a few new albums, together with “Bijoux de famille” in 2009 and the stay album “Les Noces d’or de jaune” in 2011.
“I left this career, I finished, I did a farewell present. But it surely didn’t final lengthy,” he informed Radio-Canada in 2021.
“I used to be ashamed, however I got here again, and as shortly as attainable. It’s probably the most stunning job on this planet.”
Ferland is survived by his accomplice and his two youngsters, in addition to 4 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
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