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Artist
Diane Dufresne
12+ albums
Canadianquebecquebecoismontrealchanson francophone
about
Diane Dufresne was born in a working class suburb of Montreal on September 30th 1944. Her mother died when she was 12 years old and she left school to take care of her brother and sister. Early on she had developed a taste for dressing up and performing, and a few years later a job as a nurse allowed her to pay for singing lessons. Her first professional engagement in a bar in the Montreal suburbs, where she sang standards by French and Quebec artists such as Ferré, Brel and Vigneault. Her meeting with lyric writer Luc Plamondon in 1965 enabled her to work on more personal material. In 1966, still unknown in Quebec, she left for France. Quebec-Paris-Quebec In contrast to her repertoire in Canada, in France she sang songs by Quebec songwriters such as Jean-Pierre Ferland, Claude Léveillée and Félix Leclerc. She performed in the principal cabarets in vogue, including L’Ecluse and L’Echelle de Jacob. She took singing lessons at the Jean Lumière school, studied drama with actress Françoise Rosay, but she had little more success than in Quebec. A journalist who saw her perform in Paris wrote a glowing article about her, thanks to which, after returning to Quebec in 68, she released her first single, "Mon Cœur est fou". Canadians gave the disc a warm reception and Diane worked harder and developed her incredible talent as a live performer. In 1969, the Quebec public got their first taste of that characteristic Dufresne craziness in the revue, "Les Girls", in which she bo
top songs
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Oxygène
2,9542J'ai rencontré l'homme de ma vie
2,3903Le Rêve De Stella Spotlight - remastered
1,2414Le Rêve de Stella Spotlight
1,1475Les Adieux D'Un Sex-Symbol - remastered
1,1466Un souvenir heureux
1,1217Le parc Belmont
8358Les Adieux D'un Sex Symbol
8069Le rêve de Stella Spotlight - Remasterisé en 2009
78310Les adieux d'un sex-symbol - Remasterisé en 2009
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