(Montreal) Pierre Jobin, who had been the agent of Félix Leclerc in particular and who devoted forty years of his life to the dissemination of French-language songs from here and elsewhere, died on Tuesday.
It was her daughter, Sarah-Kristel Marcoux, who announced her death on Wednesday on her Facebook page, adding that her father had Alzheimer’s disease.
For forty years, as an artist’s agent, cultural host, theater director or radio host, Pierre Jobin has created a whole environment for French-language song and theater to flourish in Quebec City – and in Quebec, that he loved so much.
He notably directed the Théâtre de l’Île d’Orléans from 1973 to 1991, and the Petit-Champlain in Quebec City from 1979 to 1984, then from 1989 to 1996. He also founded the Productions Quebec agency and made it known and known in Quebec the Pierre Barouh, Pierre Perret, Ricet Barrier, Yves Duteil, Anne Sylvestre, Claude Nougaro or Anna Prucnal.
But he also launched the careers of promising young beginners from Quebec. And he was also Félix Leclerc’s agent from 1973 until his friend’s death in 1988.
At the end of the 1990s, Pierre Jobin sold his house on Île d’Orléans and bought an old bank in Old Limoilou to open there in 1999 a small 80-seat song box, Aux oiseaux de passage – like the Brassens song.
“This passionate about songs, lover of words, this great dreamer will have touched the hearts and souls of so many people,” writes his daughter. He will have made us discover so many artists, will have given us the audacity to go towards beauty, towards what the song or the theater have more beautiful to offer. If he believed in something, he would go for it! ”