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Genres
  
Folk

Years active
  
1981-present

Role
  
Singer

Music group
  
Abbittibbi

Occupation(s)
  
Singer, film director

Name
  
Richard Desjardins

Movies
  
The Hole Story

Music director
  
Le Party, Welcome Yankee

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Born
  
March 16, 1948 (age 76) Rouyn, Quebec, Canada (
1948-03-16
)

Website
  
www.richarddesjardins.qc.ca

Albums
  
Les Derniers Humains, Au Club Soda

Similar People
  
Robert Monderie, Gilles Vigneault, Michel Rivard, Daniel Lavoie, Claude Dubois

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Richard Desjardins (born March 16, 1948 in Rouyn, Quebec, Canada) is a Quebecois folk singer and film director. He 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 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. As well as his singing career, he is well known for his environmental activism, especially with regards to protecting forests from over-exploitation.

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Biography

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In 1994 Desjardins realized an old dream, the reunion of Abbittibbi. He brought the group back together and they recorded an album called “Chaude etait la nuit” ("The night was hot"). In 1996 they put out "Desjardins - Abbittibbi Live ". His third solo album, entitled "Boom Boom", appeared in 1998. In 1999, “L’erreur boreale” was released.

In September 2003 the CD “Kanasuta” was released.

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On 25 February 2010, Richard Desjardins has signed, together with 500 artists, the call to support the international campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against alleged Israeli apartheid.

Discography

Albums


  • 1981-Boom Town Cafe (with Abbittibbi)
  • 1988-Les derniers humains
  • 1989-Le tresor de la langue (with Rene Lussier)
  • 1990-Tu m'aimes-tu
  • 1992-Les derniers humains (new recording)
  • 1994-Chaude etait la nuit (with Abbittibbi)
  • 1998-Boom Boom
  • 2003-Kanasuta
  • 2011-L'existoire

    • Live albums

  • 1993-Richard Desjardins au Club Soda
  • 1996-Desjardins Abbittibbi Live (with Abbittibbi)

    • Soundtrack

  • 1990-Le Party

    • DVD

  • Kanasuta - La ou les diables vont danser (2005)

    • Filmography

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  • 2011 Trou story (The Hole Story) by Desjardins and Robert Monderie
  • 2007 Le peuple invisible (The invisible nation) by Desjardins and Robert Monderie
  • 1999 L'erreur boreale (English title: Forest Alert) by Desjardins and Robert Monderie
  • 1978 Mouche a feu (Firefly), by Desjardins and Robert Monderie
  • 1977 Comme des chiens en pacage ("A raging Disaster") by Desjardins and Robert Monderie

    • Music for films and theater

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  • A double tour (English title: Twice Convicted), by Marie Cadieux, 1994
  • Le party, by Pierre Falardeau, 1990
  • La Nuit avec Hortense (The night with Hortense), by Jean Chabot, 1988
  • Noranda, by Robert Monderie and Daniel Corvec, 1984
  • Le doux partage (Soft Sharing) by Sylvie van Brabant, 1983
  • Depuis que le monde est monde (Since the world is world) by Sylvie van Brabant, 1981
  • L’hiver bleu (Blue winter) by Andre Blanchard, 1978
  • Beat by Andre Blanchard, 1976 (Desjardins and Abbittibbi as well as other musicians)

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  • Composed music for and was musical director of ”Tetes rondes et tetes pointues“ ("The Roundheads and the Peakheads") by Bertold Brecht, at the 1986 Brecht International Festival in Toronto.

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    Songs

    Le Coeur est un Oiseau
    Quand j'aime une fois - j'aime pour toujours
    Tu m'aimes-tu
    Nous aurons
    Va-t'en pas
    Jenny
    Les Bonriens
    Une chanson pomme
    Nataq
    Le Chant du bum
    Eh oui - c'est ca la vie
    Le reverbere
    Kooloo Kooloo
    La nuit avec Hortense
    Barati - baratin
    et j'ai couche dans mon char
    Le Bons Gars
    Un beau grand slow
    Ou as-tu mis ton coeur?
    Boomtown Cafe
    Sahara Lumber
    Migwetch
    Chaude etait la nuit
    La Porte du ciel
    L'Embaumeur Forestier
    Les Yankees
    Homme nouveau
    Le bum
    L'effet Lisa
    Un trou perdu
    Y va toujours y avoir
    L'engeoliere

    References

    Richard Desjardins Wikipedia
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