Diane Tell
Diane Tell (born 24 December 1959) is a Canadian musician who was born in Quebec City, Quebec. Tell entered the Val d’Or conservatory at the age of six. She continued her studies at the Montréal conservatory and then at CEGEP Saint-Laurent, and she wrote her first songs at the age of twelve.
Diane Tell
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- Name
- Diane Tell
- Birth Name
- Diane Fortin
- Born
- 24 December 1959
- Birthplace
- Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
- Occupation
- Singer-songwriter, guitarist
- Nationality
- Canada and France.
- Fields
- music composing.
- Education
- Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal.
- Languages
- French.
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Diane Tell (born 24 December 1959) is a Canadian musician who was born in Quebec City, Quebec. Tell entered the Val d’Or conservatory at the age of six. She continued her studies at the Montréal conservatory and then at CEGEP Saint-Laurent, and she wrote her first songs at the age of twelve.
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Diane Tell (born 1959) is a composer, musician and singer, among other activities, of Canadian and French nationality. The composer was born in Quebec City.
Diane Tell was educated at Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal. The composer lived in France. Activity centred on music composing.
The work spans pop music. Languages used include French.
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Biography
Biography
Tell worked across singer-songwriter, composer, singer and musician. The registers place that work in pop music. This article rests on 53 catalogued compositions, 25 issued recordings and 5 scholarly references drawn from named institutional registers. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.
Diane Tell studied at Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is music composing. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are pop music. Residence is recorded at France.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Diane Tell • Birth Name — Diane Fortin • Born — 24 December 1959 • Birthplace — Quebec City, Quebec, Canada • Origin — Quebec City, Quebec, Canada • Instrument — Vocals, guitar • Genre — Pop jazz, French pop, indie pop, adult contemporary • Occupation — Singer-songwriter, guitarist • Years Active — 1977–present • Label — Tuta Music/IDOL distribution WW • Website — www.dianetell.com
Live performances (selection)
Live performances (selection)
• 1977 Bigins at l'Évêché Montreal • 1980 La Place des Arts Montreal • 1982 Le Théâtre Saint-Denis Montreal • 1983 L'Olympia Paris • 1986 L'Olympia Paris • 1989 L'Olympia Paris • 1996 Le Spectrum Montreal • 2003 Le Palais Royal Paris • 2003 Les FrancoFolies de Montréal Club Soda Montreal • 2003 Le Théâtre du Petit Champlain, Quebec • 2005 Les FrancoFolies de Montréal Spectrum Montreal • 2005 Le Cabaret Music-Hall à Montréal and touring En Solo mais pas Single • 2005 Le Grand Théâtre de Québec Quebec • 2006 L'Européen Paris • 2010 Les FrancoFolies de Montréal La Place des Arts Montreal • 2012 Les FrancoFolies de Montréal La grande scène Montreal • 2012 Tournée du ROSEQ Qué, N.B. /Canada • 2013: Ne me quitte pas, Hommage à Jacques Brel - Festival de Tadoussac, FrancoFolies de Montréal CA • 2013: Série de concerts en Europe et au Canada, en Solo, en Duo (avec Robbie McIntosh), avec Vincent Réhel et le Quatuor à Cordes Hermès • 2014: Ne me quitte pas, Hommage à Jacques Brel - en Tournée au Québec CA • 2014: Série de concerts en Europe et au Canada, en Solo, en Duo (avec Robbie McIntosh) • 2014: Festival de Jazz de Montréal avec Vincent Réhel et les Mommies on the Run CA • 2015: Ne me quitte pas, Hommage à Jacques Brel - En tournée au Québec et au Festival Montréal en Lumières (Salle Wilfried Pelletier de la Place des Arts) CA • 2016: Printemps de Pérouges FR, en duo avec Robbie McIntosh • 2017: Ne me quitte pas, Hommage à Jacques Brel - Avec l'Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal (Maison Symphonique de la Place des Arts) Montréal Qué. CA • 2017: Le Baladin de Savièse CH, en duo avec Robbie McIntosh • 2017: Pan Piper (Paris FR) • 2018: Nuit du jazz, Chernex-sur-Montreux CH • 2021 - 2022: 40 concerts tour in Canada - Bonsound and Tuta Music Tour.
Musicals
Musicals
• 1990: La légende de Jimmy, Théâtre Mogador, Paris by Michel Berger and Luc Plamondon. • 1991: Marilyn Montreuil (actrice and composer), Théâtre national de Chaillot, Paris by Jérôme Savary and Diane Tell • 2008: Je m'voyais déjà, Théâtre du Gymnase, Paris by Laurent Ruquier, songs by Charles Aznavour
Life and work
Life and work
Diane Tell was born on 24 December 1959 in Quebec City. Tell held the nationality of Canada and France. Tell was educated at Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal. Tell worked as singer-songwriter, composer, singer and musician. Tell was active from 1977. The fields Tell worked in include pop music. Tell worked in French.
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 1 entries
1959
Diane Tell was born on 24 December 1959.
Places
Named by the record
Places
Only places the record itself states, plotted where the house gazetteer settles their coordinates. Nothing is inferred from a name or a nationality.
France.
Residences
Quebec City.
Birth place
Compositions, 1981
Catalogued output
Compositions, 1981
The entries below are works composed by the subject, as the institutional registers catalogue them; later performances and commercial recordings of the same music are listed separately. They belong to a run of 53 titles in all, from 1981 to 1981.
1 composition carry the date 1981
Si j'étais un homme
1981
Compositions without a settled date
Catalogued output
Compositions without a settled date
52 further compositions are catalogued under Tell's name without a date the collections agree on, which is why they are set apart from the dated run rather than placed in it. A selection is set out below and the complete run may be opened beneath it.
La Légende de Jimmy
La belle du port
En pleurer ou en rire
Je pense à toi comme je t'aime
Vous auriez bien pu
J'arrive pas j'arrive
Un verre d’amour
Reste avec moi (Bonheur d'occasion)
J’aurais voulu qu’tu saches
Lui, toi et moi
Il ne m’aime pas
Faire à nouveau connaissance
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La Légende de Jimmy
La belle du port
En pleurer ou en rire
Je pense à toi comme je t'aime
Vous auriez bien pu
J'arrive pas j'arrive
Un verre d’amour
Reste avec moi (Bonheur d'occasion)
J’aurais voulu qu’tu saches
Lui, toi et moi
Il ne m’aime pas
Faire à nouveau connaissance
Un nuage de mots
L'Amour en cage
Celui qui tient le monde dans ses mains
On n’jette pas un amour comme ça. Éternel rebelle
Rue d'la Flemme
Je n’en peux plus
Swimming Pool Parties
J'voudrais encore être amoureux
Les Trottoirs de Los Angeles
J'en ai marre de l'amour
Moi sans toi
Voyage au paradis
Aime moi pour qui je suis
La Vieille Mort
Souvent longtemps énormément
Boule de moi
Mon seul amour, mon seul ami
La Vallée de la mort
Toi qui as pris mon cœur
Moi fille, toi garçon
Discography
Discography
• 1977: Diane Tell • 1979: Entre nous • 1980: En flèche • 1982: Chimères • 1984: On a besoin d'amour • 1986: Faire à nouveau connaissance • 1988: Dégriffe-moi • 1990: La légende de Jimmy • 1991: Marilyn Montreuil • 1993: Morceaux choisis • 1996: Désir Plaisir Soupir • 2003: Tout de Diane (compilation) • 2005: Popeline • 2009: Diane Tell Original Album Classics (5-CD set) • 2009: Docteur Boris & Mister Vian • 2011: Rideaux Ouverts • 2013: Une • 2013: Passe Simple (Best of) • 2014: Ne me quitte pas: Un hommage à Jacques Brel (multi-artistes québécois) • 2015: Intemporelle Diane Dufresne (multi-artistes québécois) • 2015: Duos Félix Leclerc (multi-artistes québécois) • 2019: Haïku
Recordings and discography
Primary material
Recordings and discography
The discography assembled here shows how Tell's work has been published in sound, not what Tell made. 25 sound issues are catalogued, carrying dates from 1977 to 2022. An issue is a published recording, distinct from the composition it carries, from a printed score of that composition and from any single performance of it; none of the entries below is counted in the catalogue of compositions above, and several of them carry the same work in different readings. The 1990s are the densest decade of publication, with 6 issues. The performers and issuing labels are as the discographic register states them; where it names no performer the article names none.
Entre nous
1979
Passé Simple
2013
Désir plaisir soupir
1995
Chanter qu’on les aime
2004
Une
2013
On a besoin d’amour
1984
Chimères
1982
Rideaux ouverts
2012
En flèche
1980
Collection or
1992
Spoiler (808 Alert Mix)
2019
Morceaux choisis
1993
Paris-Montréal
1987
Aimes-tu la vie comme moi?
2022
Popeline
2005
Haïku
2019
Dégriffe-moi
1988
Tout de Diane Tell
2002
Liaisons nombreuses
1995
Marilyn Montreuil
1991
Docteur Boris & Mister Vian
2009
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reference work
- “Diane Tell”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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authority record
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q936781: Diane Tell
General reference · Wikidata
Awards
• Félix best singer-songwriter (1980) Quebec • Félix best new artist (1980) • Félix best song for "Si j'étais un homme" (1981) • Félix best album En Flèche (1981) • Félix best singer-songwriter (1981) • Félix best female artist (1981) • Juno Awards, nomination, most promising female vocalist (1984) Canada • Midem Awards best female artist (1982) France • Victoire de la musique best francophone album Faire à nouveau connaissance (1986) France • Classics SOCAN - Gilberto, Si j'étais un homme, Miami, Savoir, Faire à nouveau connaissance... + • SPACQ - PRIX ROBERT CHARLEBOIS – Rayonnement international (2015) • "Si j'étais un homme" Inducted Canadian Songwriters Hall of fame (2017)
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References
Citations
References
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