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Louise Forestier

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Louise Forestier (born Louise Belhumeur on August 10, 1942) is a Canadian singer, songwriter and actress.

Born in Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada, Forestier was trained in acting at the National Theatre School in Montreal, but it was as a singer that she first became known in 1966, when she received the Renée Claude Trophy from Le Patriote, a boîte à chansons in east-end Montreal, and was named Discovery of the Year on the Radio-Canada TV program Jeunesse Oblige.

In 1968 she was part of the extraordinarily successful revue L'Osstidcho, followed the next year by L'Osstidchomeurt with Robert Charlebois, Yvon Deschamps and Mouffe. She and Charlebois recorded the landmark song "Lindberg'" and toured France in 1969.

In April 1970 Forestier starred in the Michel Tremblay, François Dompierre musical, Demain matin Montréal m'attend. She continued with acting, appearing in Jacques Godbout's 1972 film IXE-13, singing on the original film score.

Forestier topped the Quebec charts in 1973 with a version of the folk song "La Prison de Londres", performed with guitarist Claude Lafrance, and pianist Jacques Perron. With this song Forestier started to turn away from the hard rock of her early career to a repertoire largely inspired by Quebec folk music, and to a more personal style, which she continued through the 1970s.

In 1980 Forestier played Marie-Jeanne, the robot waitress in the Montreal production Luc Plamondon, Michel Berger rock opera Starmania. Two years later, with Plamondon as producer, she staged the hit show Je suis au rendez-vous. This was the first of a series of shows in the 1980s, culminating in an appearance with Belgian singer Maurane as part of the Francofolies de Montréal in 1989.

In 1990 she appeared at the Place-des-Arts in Montreal as Émilie Nelligan, the mother of the poet in the romantic opera Nelligan by Michel Tremblay and André Gagnon.

Forestier defended Yann Martel's novel Histoire de Pi in the French version of Canada Reads, which was broadcast on Radio-Canada in 2004.

In March 2019, she was one of 11 singers from Quebec, alongside Ginette Reno, Diane Dufresne, Céline Dion, Isabelle Boulay, Luce Dufault, Laurence Jalbert, Catherine Major, Ariane Moffatt, Marie Denise Pelletier and Marie-Élaine Thibert, who participated in a supergroup recording of Renée Claude's 1971 single "Tu trouveras la paix" after Claude's diagnosis with Alzheimer's disease was announced.

Source: Article "Louise Forestier" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Louise Forestier (née Louise Belhumeur le 10 août 1942 à Shawinigan) est une chanteuse et comédienne québécoise.

Née à Shawinigan, elle étudie à l'École nationale de théâtre de Montréal, et obtient son diplôme en 1964.

Louise chante en duo avec Robert Charlebois, elle réalise alors avec lui ce qui deviendra le quatrième album du chanteur, intitulé tout simplement Robert Charlebois avec Louise Forestier en 1968. Il contient les chansons California, La Marche du président, Lindberg et CPR Blues qu'elle chante en duo avec Robert, le reste de l'album contient des pièces sur lesquelles Charlebois chante seul. Elle participe aussi à l'Osstidcho avec Charlebois, Yvon Deschamps, Mouffe, le Quatuor du nouveau jazz libre du Québec et Paul Buissonneau en cette même année '68.

Deux ans plus tard, elle participe au Bye Bye 1970 avec Olivier Guimond et Denis Drouin entre autres. Elle connaît du succès surtout dans les années soixante-dix, en chantant notamment en duo avec Renée Claude (L'amante et l'épouse) puis plus tard en animant quelques variétés pour la télévision. En 1971, elle est de la distribution du film IXE 13 avec Les Cyniques, Carole Laure, Louisette Dussault et Jean-Guy Moreau, réalisé par Jacques Godbout. En 1983, elle collabore avec Francine Ruel (paroles) et Pierre Flynn (refrain, musique) pour la chanson Prince Arthur qu'elle interprète par la suite, puis en 1990 elle incarne Émilie Nelligan, la mère du poète Émile Nelligan sur des textes de Michel Tremblay et des musiques d'André Gagnon.

Source: Article "Louise Forestier" de Wikipédia en français, soumis à la licence CC-BY-SA 3.0.

French (fr-CA)

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Louise Forestier

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