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

Richard Desjardins
Background information
Born	(1948-03-16) March 16, 1948 (age 74) Rouyn, Quebec, Canada
Genres	Folk
Occupation(s)	Singer, film director
Years active	1981-present
Website	www.richarddesjardins.qc.ca

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 created the documentary film L'erreur boréale in 1999.[5] In 2007 Desjardins, along with Robert Monderie, created The Invisible People, 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

• 1981-Boom Town Café (with Abbittibbi)
• 1988-Les derniers humains
• 1989-Le trésor de la langue (with René Lussier)
• 1990-Tu m'aimes-tu
• 1992-Les derniers humains (new recording)
• 1994-Chaude était la nuit (with Abbittibbi)[11]
• 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 - Là où les diables vont danser (2005)

Filmography

• 1977 - A Raging Disaster (Comme des chiens en pacage) by Desjardins and Robert Monderie
• 1978 - Firefly (Mouche à feu), by Desjardins and Robert Monderie
• 1999 - Forest Alert (L'erreur boréale) by Desjardins and Robert Monderie
• 2007 - The Invisible Nation (Le peuple invisible) by Desjardins and Robert Monderie
• 2011 - The Hole Story (Trou story) by Desjardins and Robert Monderie

Music for films and theater

• À double tour (English title: Twice Convicted), by Marie Cadieux, 1994
• The Party (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
• Blue Winter (L'hiver bleu) by André Blanchard, 1978
• Beat by André Blanchard, 1976 (Desjardins and Abbittibbi as well as other musicians)
• Composed music for and was musical director of ”Têtes rondes et têtes pointues“ ("The Roundheads and the Peakheads") by Bertold Brecht, at the 1986 Brecht International Festival in Toronto.

Bibliography

• Carole Couture, "la parole est mine d’or", Éditions Tryptique, Montréal, 1999.

References

External links

• Desjardins' web site.
• Words to 59 of Desjardins' songs. (site down)
• Radio Canada (Documentary about Richard Desjardins) (in French)
• Radio France, France Blue (Interviews with Desjardins) (in French)
• Summary of Desjardins Life’s work (in French)

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- [en] Richard Desjardins

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[fr] Richard Desjardins

Richard Desjardins, né le 16 mars 1948 à Rouyn-Noranda, est un auteur-compositeur-interprète et cinéaste québécois.

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