National funeral | A tribute concert for Jean-Pierre Ferland

(Montreal) Music and the color yellow punctuated the national funeral of singer Jean-Pierre Ferland on Saturday in Montreal, where families, friends and public figures paid him a final tribute.


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The clothes of the guests as well as yellow flowers colored the Marie-Reine-du-Monde cathedral, in reference to the album YELLOWreleased in 1970, on which we find in particular The Little King. The singer’s urn, also sun-colored, was brought to the altar to the sound of I’m coming back to our placearound 11 a.m.

“In my eyes, my father was a firework. High, tall, and dazzling, said the deceased’s daughter, Julie Ferland, alongside her brother, Bruno Ferland. At the end of his life, Dad was peaceful and happy. He left peacefully, and he smiled his superb, flirtatious smile until the last moment. »


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