He’s just past 80, and over the years, he’s seen his younger and younger artist friends leave him; Robert Charlebois says he’s lucky to have good health and a passion that allows him to proliferate projects. “This is what keeps me young,” the singer said in a lengthy interview spanning a career spanning more than 50 years. The Journal.
An essential figure of song in Quebec, Robert Charlebois has released more than 30 albums and given thousands of concerts throughout the French-speaking world. Winner of numerous awards and distinctions (including Canada’s Governor General’s Award for the Arts, ADISQ’s Félix Homage for all his work, and the Order of Arts and Sciences in France). A part of many historical events including 1 time 5 (with Jean-Pierre Ferland, Claude Léveillée, Yvon Deschamps and Gilles Vigneault) and I saw a wolf, a fox, a lion Fifty years ago with his friends Félix Leclerc and Gilles Vigneault.
Final performance of Dashing Cowboys
Most recently, singer Carl Tremblay had the final Cowboys Fringes performance before his death. Robert Charlebois played the opening act. “It isn’t programIt is an event and a real ceremony,” says the artist in one breath. “Every time I go to the plains, I have real and intense emotions. That’s really how it started,” he continues.
Other excerpts from the interview
Interest in changing jobs
“When we’re lucky enough to have a passion in life, whatever that may be, the word ‘work’ seems to drop out of our vocabulary,” he says. This is why the singer-songwriter felt nothing but joy while recording the show Plain of Songs July 26 in Quebec. “There was an unusual crowd on the plains. I made small pieces My countrymen With everyone, but I don’t want to say too much to keep the surprise [rires]… explains the artist who was part of the first SuperFrancoFête in 1974.
Celebrating living singers
“Life, you don’t have time to say, ‘Buy!’ We have to appreciate living treasures, tell artists we love them while they’re still alive,” he says, referring to friends like Claude Dubois and Gilles Vigneault who are still very much in this world. “Jean -I have many friends, including Pierre Ferland, who left a great career behind him. The last time I saw him, he had lost his part, the witty joke; I saw that he was no longer the same. I laughed a lot with him. He was a poet with a very beautiful pen.
Celine’s best class
As part of the Paralympic Games in Paris on August 29, a piano soloist will sing on a Seine boat. He apparently saw Celine Dion’s big comeback during the opening ceremony of the Olympics. “I was watching the artists rehearse on the plains in Quebec and I saw my wife in tears. I saw her performance, it was classy, elegant, effortless. It was unanimous! It’s the most beautiful song ever written. What a beautiful tribute to Edith Piaf!”
Symphonic Charlebois, Quite a challenge
On August 22nd, 23rd and 24th, the artist will take to the Maison Symphonic stage in the company of 88 musicians, singers and percussionists of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra to deliver an outstanding performance. Symphonic Charlebois. “It’s like an apotheosis, a climax. When I hear these majestic arrangements, I tell myself that directors like Denis Villeneuve or Federico Fellini would be envious. It’s a more serious job than I thought, it’s more challenging. I’m going to take people back 50 years. , we don’t do it half-heartedly, I feel like an athlete without protective gear!”
– Symphonic Charlebois Presented at Maison symphonique de Montreal on August 22, 23 and 24, 2024.
– Robert Charlebois will tour Quebec with his show in October and November Charlebois, Ducharme et al.
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