Richard Desjardins
Richard Desjardins (born March 16, 1948) is a Québécois folk singer and film director.
Richard Desjardins
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- Name
- Richard Desjardins
- Born
- 16 March 1948
- Birthplace
- Rouyn, Quebec
- Occupation
- Singer, film director
- Nationality
- Canada
- Fields
- rock music
- Languages
- French
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Richard Desjardins (born March 16, 1948) is a Québécois folk singer and film director.
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• Name — Richard Desjardins • Born — 16 March 1948 • Birthplace — Rouyn, Quebec • Genre — Folk • Occupation — Singer, film director • Years Active — 1981–present • Website — http: www.richarddesjardins.qc.ca/
Career
Career
Desjardins and his friends formed the country rock ensemble Abbitibbi in the 1970s; Desjardins played piano, guitar, and sang. When the group disbanded in 1982, Desjardins pursued a solo career. He released a number of solo albums, including Tu m'aimes-tu in 1990 and Boom Boom, which appeared on the RPM 100 Top Albums list in 1998. Desjardins also found work scoring films, especially documentaries. This involvement in the Quebec film industry even led him to co-direct a number of feature-length documentaries. He was known for his environmental activism, especially with regards to protecting forests from over-exploitation, and to promote this he and Robert Monderie created the documentary film Forest Alert (L'erreur boréale) in 1999. In 2007 Desjardins, again with Monderie, created The Invisible Nation (Le Peuple invisible), a documentary about the Algonquin nation in Quebec. Desjardins went on tour in 2013, promoting his album L'existoire; after that he made occasional live appearances, including the 2018 Festival guitares du monde in Abitibi. In 2017 a group of singers came together at Steve Jolin's Rouyn-Noranda record company to record Chanter Richard Desjardins, a tribute album of Desjardins' songs. He was profiled in Lisette Marcotte's 2019 documentary film The Last Nataq (Le dernier Nataq).
Filmography
Filmography
• 1977 - A Raging Disaster (Comme des chiens en pacage) by Desjardins and Robert Monderie • 1978 - Firefly (Mouche à feu), by Desjardins and Robert Monderie • 1999 - Forest Alert (L'erreur boréale) by Desjardins and Robert Monderie • 2007 - The Invisible Nation (Le peuple invisible) by Desjardins and Robert Monderie • 2011 - The Hole Story (Trou story) by Desjardins and Robert Monderie
Life and career
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Life and career
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1948
Richard Desjardins born at Rouyn-Noranda.
Music for films and theater
• À double tour (English title: Twice Convicted), by Marie Cadieux, 1994 • The Party (Le Party) by Pierre Falardeau, 1990 • La Nuit avec Hortense (The night with Hortense), by Jean Chabot, 1988 • Noranda, by Robert Monderie and Daniel Corvec, 1984 • Le doux partage (Soft Sharing) by Sylvie van Brabant, 1983 • Depuis que le monde est monde (Since the world is world) by Sylvie van Brabant, 1981 • Blue Winter (L'hiver bleu) by André Blanchard, 1978 • Beat by André Blanchard, 1976 (Desjardins and Abbittibbi as well as other musicians) • Composed music for and was musical director of ”Têtes rondes et têtes pointues“ ("The Roundheads and the Peakheads") by Bertold Brecht, at the 1986 Brecht International Festival in Toronto. • Malartic, 2024
L. to R.: Gary Farrell (Seperich), Claude Vendette, Michel Jetté, Richard Desjardins, Theodore (Theo) Mamfred Bush, Rémi Perron.
Robert Monderie, photographe officiel du groupe de musique Abbittibbi au début de leur carrière. · Fourni par le photographe Robert Monderie.
De G. à D.: Ricky Lozier, Michel Jetté, Garry Farrell, Richard Desjardins, Claude Vendette, Rémi Perron
Véronique Goybet-Fourment, amie du groupe Abbittibbi dans les années 80. · Fichier fourni par Rémi Perron, bassiste dans le groupe Abbittibbi qui garde des archives du groupe depuis des années.
Discography
Albums • 1981-Boom Town Café (with Abbittibbi) • 1988-Les derniers humains • 1989-Le trésor de la langue (with René Lussier) • 1990-Tu m'aimes-tu • 1992-Les derniers humains (new recording) • 1994-Chaude était la nuit (with Abbittibbi) • 1998-Boom Boom • 2003-Kanasuta • 2011-L'existoire Live albums • 1993-Richard Desjardins au Club Soda • 1996-Desjardins Abbittibbi Live (with Abbittibbi) Soundtrack • 1990-Le Party DVD • Kanasuta - Là où les diables vont danser (2005)
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- 1.Larry LeBlanc. The Fix on 96. Billboard. 75, 80. 27 January 1996. 0006-2510.
- 2.Colin Larkin. The encyclopedia of popular music. Oxford Univ.; 2000. . p. 865.
- 3.Le nouvel observateur. 1998. p. 65.
- 4."Top Albums/CDs". RPM, Volume 68, No. 5. Oct 26, 1998
- 5.The Canadian forum. Canadian Forum, Limited; March 1999. p. 37.
- 6."Cousins d’Amérique : encore deux jours". la Nouvelle Republique, 19/10/2019
- 7."Retrouver Richard Desjardins". La Presse, 29 August 2019 Josée Lapointe
- 8."Richard Desjardins, tu nous aimes-tu?". Le Devoir, Sylvain Cormier, 22 avril 2017
- 9."Le défi Richard Desjardins". La Presse, Alain de Repentigny, 1 May 2017
- 10.Manon Dumais, "«Le dernier Nataq»: Richard Desjardins, un homme et son territoire". Le Devoir, April 23, 2021.
- 11.Landscapes and Landmarks of Canada: Real, Imagined, (Re)Viewed. Wilfrid Laurier University Press; 28 March 2017. . p. 173.
- 12.Cormier, Sylvain. Desjardins, le nouvel album - Pour ne pas désespérer tout seul. Le Devoir. 2011-04-20.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 1
- Carole Couture, "la parole est mine d’or", Éditions Tryptique, Montréal, 1999.
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