When we have gone “a little higher, a little further” as much as he has, we can say – without fear of verbal exaggeration – that he was a giant. Jean-Pierre Ferland is the bus show business by himself. With memorable duets, a phenomenal quantity of immortal songs and an infinite love of women, certainly, but an at least equally great love of music and words. To our greatest happiness, the one who had completely missed his retirement was so terribly alive that we believed him to be practically eternal. Hence our disbelief and our immense collective grief.
The Jean-Pierre Ferland signature is a perfect blend of French and Quebecois song, a bridge between generations of singers and popular singers, and an immense splash of sunny yellow on entire sections of our culture. This outcast who was said to be gifted with laziness and who sang “What does it matter that I live my life all backwards” will have managed to leave happy memories in the hearts of little almost all generations.
Jean-Pierre Ferland is the art of well-crafted and crafted songs, a poet who knew how to capture the spirit of the times and who succeeded in his “musical defector” at a pivotal period when Quebec dreamed of a big Yes . The famous (and now celestial!) cat from the artists’ café will have loved the Quebec language madly and will have succeeded all his life in saying profound things subtly with a broad smile. An infinite smile that will never fade…
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