2023-05-19 01:26:42
Rhinestones and sequins, it does not enchant him that much. But the moment is worth the effort: since the creation of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame nearly half a century ago, she will be the second French-speaking artist to receive this honor – but the first performer – after the lyricist Luc Plamondon. in 1999.
The event is organized at the National Music Center in Calgary by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which is also the mastermind behind the Juno Awards ceremony.
The goal is to make tribute to artists who have had a remarkable impact on Canadian music, both nationally and internationally
explains the organization in a press release.
The selection criteria are musical excellence, commercial success with local and international audiences, significant contribution to Canadian music.
Diane Dufresne enters this palace of immortals alongside three other artists. They are jazz pianist, Oliver Jones, country music star, Terri Clark, and legendary rock band, Trooper.
Adored by the public
The induction ceremony also allows the Quebec singer to rediscover her raison d’être, the public, with whom she has a kind of reciprocal allegiance.
« I think of the public, [car] for me, the public is an integral part of my career. »
It is therefore no coincidence that Diane Dufresne chose to perform a well-known song from her repertoire at her induction: Share the angels. Written by Roger Tabra, it depicts the relationship between artists and their audience.
Diane Dufresne says she has always been supported by the public, especially at the start of her career when she was criticized for her extravagant costumes.
The public came to my concerts with very bright clothes
, in support. According to her, when the public comes to see an artist on stage, it is as much to enjoy his show as to convey his love to him. So, honors, whatever they are, it is first to the public that the artist owes them, she says.
The public likes her and she gives it back.
« Leaving the public when you see him only once every two years, and only one evening, is like a heartbreak, it’s very painful. […] People love me. I love them too and take care of them. »
French and Quebec are deeply rooted in body and soul
As much as Diane Dufresne considers the public as her Oxygenas much as she remains viscerally attached to her mother tongue, French, which she wears over her shoulder.
The singer had also warned the organizers of the induction ceremony that she was only going to speak French both during her speech and during the interviews. She wanted to do honor to her language and convey her message without false notes, English not being his thing
.
The artist is also known for her attachment to her province. In 1973, for the needs of the cover of the pocket Apart from that, I feel goodshe had posed bare breasts, then covered by two fleur-de-lys imitating paint, the emblem appearing on the flag of Quebec, recalls The duty from Montreal.
A prolific work, distinctions
Diane Dufresne has 12 studio albums and five live albums to her credit between 1972 and 2018, recalls a press release from the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
I met the man of my life is the one of his greatest hits, with more than 200,000 copies sold in Quebec and France in 1972.
Other honors she has received include, among others, the Governor General’s Award for the Performing Arts, the title of Chevalier de l’Ordre national du Québec, the Ordre de la Légion d’honneur and the title Commander of Arts and Letters in France.
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Furthermore, when asked why since 1978, the year the Canadian Music Hall of Fame was created, Diane Dufresne is the only French-speaking performer to be inducted into it, Andrew Mosker, the CEO of the Center national de la musique, replies that at the time it was necessary to choose, each year, a single artist among so many others. That left fewer options, he explained to The crossing.
For a few years now, it has been decided to have more artists, more diversity at the Panthéon.
In the future, there will be more Quebec artists who will be considered and inducted
in this hall of fame, he hopes, pointing out that the number of artists chosen each year has increased since 2019 to four.
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