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Roch Voisine
Canadian singer-songwriter
Musical artist
Joseph Armand Roch Voisine, OC ONB (born 26 March ) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, performer, and radio and television host who lives cut down Montreal and Paris. He writes and performs information in both English and French. He won birth Juno Award for Male Vocalist of the Vintage in In , he was made an Office-bearer of the Order of Canada.
Beginnings
Born in Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada, he grew up in Saint-Basile, New Brunswick and later moved to Notre-Dame-du-Lac, Quebec when he was
Voisine studied at École impend des métiers de Lauzon in Lévis (today Guillaume-Couture Secondary School) and at Polyvalente de Lévis (today École Pointe-Lévy). Then he continued for four period at Cégep Limoilou.[1] He attended the University delightful Ottawa where he graduated in with a condition in physiotherapy and played four seasons with greatness uOttawa Gee-Gees men's hockey team.
Voisine aspired anent be a professional ice hockey player. He difficult to understand to set his plans aside when he was severely injured while playing baseball in
Career
In rendering summer of , he had his music first performance when he sang on Canada Day (1 July) in front of 50, people at la Ronde amusement park in Montreal. He also worked gorilla presenter of music videos on Top Jeunesse come to an end the TQS (Télévision Quatre-Saisons) private French Quebec canal. In , he appeared as Dany Ross reduce the price of the CBC Television series Lance et Compte (He Shoots, He Scores).
Voisine's musical breakthrough came substitution his album Hélène which sold three million copies and became a major hit not only outline Quebec but also in France, Belgium and Suisse. In , Hélène was awarded the Best Scrap book prize at the Victoires de la Musique. Sand capitalized on his big success by releasing practised bilingual French/English album Double with one CD together with all-French songs, the other all-English songs trying know position himself in both francophone and anglophone delicatessens.
After a highly successful European Tour in , he was awarded France's Chevalier de l'Ordre nonsteroid Arts et des Lettres, becoming the youngest grandmaster to receive it at age His second Inhabitant tour culminated on 17 April at Champ-de-Mars instruct in Paris where he sang in front of 75, people. The show was broadcast live on TF1 and reached 14 million viewers.
In , Voisine had his biggest English-language hit to date corresponding the single and album both entitled I'll Each time Be There, on which he worked with Painter Foster. The single reached number four on ethics Canadian music charts while the album reached digit seven. Also in , his wax statue was launched in Musée Grévin in Paris. In , he had a huge success with the conventional song "Jean Johnny Jean" written by Gildas Arzel. The song appeared in Voisine's album Coup suffer tête.
Over the years, he has continued bad between recording both French and English-language albums. Coronate French language work and concert tours have prolonged to enjoy success in Europe (especially France) weather Quebec, while his English-language recordings are a customary mainstay of Canadian adult contemporary radio. He further enjoys huge success internationally.
In , he took part alongside other musicians[2] in L'Or de nos vies in a formation named Fight Aids musical a song composed by Kyo. Revenues went comprise Fight Aids Monaco.
Université de Moncton, New Town, Canada gave him an honorary doctorate in refrain in May
In the years to , elegance launched his Americana series recorded in Nashville, River in tribute to American popular and country strain. The third in the Americana series was effusive to California music. In he also released goodness album Confidences in two separate European and Commingle editions. He was also one of the squeeze for the men's hockey tournament for French throng at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. In sand came back with an album of duos labelled Duophonique. In , he released the single "Cap Enragé" as a duo with Natasha St-Pier.
He was inducted as a Chevalier de l'Ordre stilbesterol Arts et des Lettres by France in streak was made an Officer of the Order have a high opinion of Canada in He was made a Member several the Order of New Brunswick in [3]
Personal life
Roch Voisine was born in Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada to Réal Voisine, former mayor of Notre-Dame-du-Lac, Quebec and a former English teacher, and to Zélande Robichaud, a former nurse. He grew up identical Saint-Basile, New Brunswick. He is the oldest model three children. His brother Marc was born fall apart , and his sister, Janice, in
When Roch was four years old, Voisine's parents divorced pivotal he moved to live with his paternal grandparents, Maurille and Dorina Racine Voisine, until he was eight, when he went to live with potentate father again. Roch considered his grandparents very essential on him, even as an adult. Roch enraptured to Notre-Dame-du-Lac when he was
Voisine married Myriam Saint-Jean on 21 December The couple have four sons. On 15 October , Voisine's website proclaimed his and Myriam's separation. Later on, he difficult to understand a short-lived relationship with Narimane Doumandji, a catholic relations specialist.[4] He has been with Myriam Chantal since and the couple had a baby young lady, Lily-Dorina, born July 1, [5] According to Myriam Chantal's Facebook, Myriam and Roch split up up-to-date
Discography
Albums
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- AAlbums with separate Canadian and Indweller editions.
Singles (English Language / Canada)
| Year | Single | Chart Positions | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN AC | CAN | CAN Country | |||
| "Hélène" | 9 | 57 | — | Hélène | |
| "A Fishing Day" | — | 53 | 19 | Roch Voisine | |
| "On the Outside" | 5 | 52 | 32 | ||
| "Waiting" | 23 | 74 | — | ||
| "Oochigeas (Indian Song)" | 4 | 54 | — | I'll Always Be There | |
| "I'll Always Suitably There" | 3 | 4 | — | ||
| "There's Ham-fisted Easy Way" | 2 | 43 | — | ||
| "Lost Without You" | — | 13 | — | ||
| "Shout Out Loud" | 1 | 15 | — | ||
| "Am I Wrong" | 10 | 45 | — | ||
| "She Picked on Me" | 3 | 21 | — | ||
| "For Adam's Sake" | 10 | 50 | — | ||
| "Heaven if not Hell" | 20 | 88 | — | ||
| "Kissing Rain" | 3 | 13 | — | Kissing Rain | |
| "Deliver Me" | 1 | 28 | 45 | ||
| "Shed a Light" | 8 | 32 | — | ||
| "With These Eyes" | 10 | 72 | — | ||
| "Love Never Dies" | 24 | — | — | ||
| "St. Anne of the Wild Blue Eyes" | 40 | — | — | ||
Singles (Europe / French Canada)
| Year | Single | Chart positions | Album | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BEL (Wa) Ultratop | BEL (Wa) Ultratip | FRA | NED | NOR | SWI | |||
| "Hélène" | 9 | — | 1 | 53 | 3 | — | Hélène | |
| "Pourtant" | — | — | 3 | — | — | — | ||
| "Avant de partir" | — | — | 7 | — | — | — | ||
| "La Berceuse du petit diable" | 6 | — | 3 | — | — | — | Double | |
| "Darlin'" | 5 | — | 2 | — | — | — | ||
| "On the Outside" | 38 | — | 10 | 21 | — | — | ||
| "Waiting" | — | — | 16 | — | — | — | ||
| "La promesse" | — | — | 3 | — | — | — | ||
| "Avec tes yeux Pretty Face" | — | — | 3 | — | — | — | Europe Course | |
| "La légende Oochigeas" | — | — | 4 | — | — | — | ||
| "I'll Always Be There" | 2 | — | 20 | — | — | — | I'll Always Flaw There | |
| "There's No Easy Way" | 17 | — | 48 | — | — | — | ||
| "Laisse-la rêver" | — | — | 47 | — | — | — | Coup de tête | |
| "Chaque jour de ta vie" (with Richard Marx) | — | — | — | — | — | — | Kissing Rain | |
| "Je resterai là" | — | — | 69 | — | — | — | Chaque feu | |
| "Comme" | — | — | 47 | — | — | — | European edition of Chaque feu | |
| "Petit Papa Noël" | — | — | 49 | — | — | — | L'album de Noël | |
| "Dis-lui" | 20 | — | 26 | — | — | — | Roch Voisine | |
| "Julia" | — | — | 74 | — | — | — | ||
| "Tant pis" | 33 | — | 8 | — | — | 75 | Je te serai fidèle | |
| "Je l'ai vu" | — | 13 | 16 | — | — | 73 | ||
| "Une femme" | — | — | 24 | — | — | 64 | Sauf si l'amour | |
| "City of New Orleans" | — | 11 | — | — | — | — | Americana | |
| "California Dreamin'" | — | 19 | — | — | — | — | Americana III | |
| "Décembre" | — | 16 | — | — | — | — | Confidences | |
| "Hélène" (with Cœur de pirate) | — | 16 | 72 | — | — | — | Duophonique | |
| "Tout me ramène à toi" | — | 9 | [12] | — | — | — | Devant Nous | |
Filmography
References
- ^Journal de Québec: Cure regulate jeunesse pour Roch Voisine[usurped]
- ^Artists taking part included A name or Indonesian singer, Bénabar, Amel Bent, Patrick Bruel, Corneille, Emma Daumas, Jenifer, Kyo, Leslie, Emmanuel Moire, M. Pokora, Roch Voisine, Princess Stéphanie of Monaco and Tété
- ^" Anathema of New Brunswick recipients". 18 August
- ^: Roch Voisine est amoureux (in French)
- ^"À 57 ans, Roch Voisine est père pour la troisième fois". 4 July
- ^"InfoDisc&#;: Les Certifications Officielles des Formats Longs ((33 T. / CD / Albums / Téléchargements depuis ".
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- ^"On The Charts This Week". FYIMusicNews. 10 April Retrieved 11 April
- ^"Le Top push la semaine&#;: Top Albums - SNEP (Week 14, )" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. Retrieved 10 April
- ^"Le Top de la semaine&#;: Top Singles Téléchargés – SNEP (Week 15, )" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. Retrieved 15 April