Richard Desjardins Explained

Richard Desjardins
Background:solo_singer
Birth Date:16 March 1948
Birth Place:Rouyn, Quebec, Canada
Genre:Folk
Occupation:Singer, film director
Years Active:1981–present

Richard Desjardins (born March 16, 1948) is a Québécois folk singer and film director.[1]

Career

Desjardins and his friends formed the country rock ensemble Abbitibbi in the 1970s; Desjardins played piano, guitar, and sang. When the group disbanded in 1982, Desjardins pursued a solo career. He released a number of solo albums, including Tu m'aimes-tu in 1990[2] and Boom Boom,[3] which appeared on the RPM 100 Top Albums list in 1998.[4]

Desjardins also found work scoring films, especially documentaries. This involvement in the Quebec film industry even led him to co-direct a number of feature-length documentaries. He was known for his environmental activism, especially with regards to protecting forests from over-exploitation, and to promote this he and Robert Monderie created the documentary film Forest Alert (L'erreur boréale) in 1999.[5] In 2007 Desjardins, again with Monderie, created The Invisible Nation (Le Peuple invisible), a documentary about the Algonquin nation in Quebec.[6]

Desjardins went on tour in 2013, promoting his album L'existoire; after that he made occasional live appearances, including the 2018 Festival guitares du monde in Abitibi.[7]

In 2017 a group of singers came together at Steve Jolin's Rouyn-Noranda record company to record Chanter Richard Desjardins, a tribute album of Desjardins' songs.[8] [9]

He was profiled in Lisette Marcotte's 2019 documentary film The Last Nataq (Le dernier Nataq).[10]

Discography

Albums

Live albums

Soundtrack

DVD

Filmography

Music for films and theater

Bibliography

External links

Notes and References

  1. Larry LeBlanc . The Fix on 96 . Billboard . 27 January 1996 . 0006-2510 . 75, 80.
  2. Colin Larkin. The encyclopedia of popular music. Oxford Univ.; 2000.. p. 865.
  3. Le nouvel observateur. 1998. p. 65.
  4. http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/item.aspx?IdNumber=4744& "Top Albums/CDs"
  5. The Canadian forum. Canadian Forum, Limited; March 1999. p. 37.
  6. https://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/vienne/commune/mouterre-silly/cousins-d-amerique-encore-deux-jours "Cousins d’Amérique : encore deux jours"
  7. https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/musique/201908/29/01-5239124-retrouver-richard-desjardins.php "Retrouver Richard Desjardins"
  8. https://www.ledevoir.com/culture/musique/496903/tu-nous-aimes-tu "Richard Desjardins, tu nous aimes-tu?"
  9. https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/musique/disques/201705/01/01-5093613-le-defi-richard-desjardins.php "Le défi Richard Desjardins"
  10. Manon Dumais, "«Le dernier Nataq»: Richard Desjardins, un homme et son territoire". Le Devoir, April 23, 2021.
  11. Landscapes and Landmarks of Canada: Real, Imagined, (Re)Viewed. Wilfrid Laurier University Press; 28 March 2017. . p. 173.
  12. Web site: Cormier . Sylvain . 2011-04-20 . Desjardins, le nouvel album - Pour ne pas désespérer tout seul . 2023-03-01 . Le Devoir . fr.

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