Some will say that it was high time: the great Diane Dufresne will become in May the first French-speaking singer to be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
The incredible career of the artist, whose talent as a composer and painter is also known, will be celebrated along with her fellow Montrealers, country singer Terry Clark and jazz pianist Oliver Jones, as well as the Vancouver group Trooper.
These honors will be presented on May 18 by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS), a ceremony that will return after the pandemic break. The whole thing will take place at the Bell Studio of the National Music Center in Calgary, Alberta.
A long and rich career
Diane Dufresne, 78, who is known for her eccentric costumes and her large-scale shows – let us recall here the show “Magie rose” presented at the Olympic Stadium in 1984 in front of 57,000 people dressed in pink –, has been shining on stage and on record since the mid 1960s.
“Hold on, I’m coming!” (1972), the first of his 14 studio albums, was a landmark, as was his song “I met the man of my life”, which initially sold over 200,000 copies in Quebec and France. This play written by Luc Plamondon set the stage for a long and fruitful collaboration between these two legends. Precisely, another highlight of Diane Dufresne’s career is linked to Luc Plamondon, when she participated in the first version of the musical “Starmania”, a work signed by Plamondon and Michel Berger.
Show-talk “By appointment”
Diane Dufresne will present her intimate talk-show “Sur rendez-vous” in mid-July, in Gatineau, then elsewhere in the province until the end of October. All information is here [dianedufresne.com].