Yvon Krevé Explained

Yvon Krevé
Background:solo_singer
Birth Name:Henry Green-Dupré
Alias:Von Von le Vet
Birth Place:Enoch, Alberta, Canada
Genre:Hip hop
Associated Acts:Sans Pression

Henry Green-Dupré, known by his stage names of Yvon Krevé and Von Von le Vet, is a French Canadian hip hop artist of Haitian origin.[1] [2] Krevé was rose to notice following collaborations with the duo Sans Pression. His 2000 debut, L'accent grave, topped the Quebec sales charts and was nominated for an ADISQ hip-hop award in 2001, and won best francophone album at the Canadian Music Awards.[3] and in 2009 was described in the newspaper La Presse as one of the five albums that had defined Quebec rap.[4] A single from that album, "Yvon Krevé", reached number one on the countdown programme for Canada's leading francophone music video channel (Décompte MusiquePlus).[3] The name is a play on words: while Yvon is a not-uncommon first name, it matches the informal Quebec French pronunciation of ils vont (they will). Thus the full name sounds like ils vont crever, or "they will die".

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  1. Book: Scooter Pegram. Choosing their own style: identity emergence among Haitian youth in Québec. registration. 25 May 2011. 30 September 2005. Peter Lang. 978-0-8204-7868-5. 119.
  2. News: La force du nombre: le hip-hop, modèle québécois . Marie-Christine Blais. La Presse. 16 October 2010 . 25 May 2011.
  3. Web site: Biographie de Yvon Krevé . musiqueplus.com . 2011 . 25 May 2011.
  4. News: Cinq albums qui ont défini le rap québécois . Philippe Renaud. 6 August 2009 . 25 May 2011.