Canadian Music Legend Jean-Pierre Ferland, Dead At 89

MONTREAL (CelebrityAccess) — French-Canadian singer-songwriter Jean-Pierre Ferland, a prolific artist with an unlimited music catalog that included hits comparable to “Une probability qu’on s’a” has died. He was 89.

Based on the Canadian Press, Ferland died in Quebec on Saturday of pure causes following a hospitalization earlier this 12 months.

With a profession that spans six many years, Ferland wrote greater than 450 songs and recorded greater than 30 albums, placing his mark as one of the vital influential Canadian artists in historical past.

A Montreal native, Ferland started his profession at Radio Canada, writing songs in his off hours earlier than recording his first album, Jean-Pierre, in 1959.

Nevertheless, he didn’t handle to interrupt by for an additional two years with the discharge of his second album, Rendez-vous à La Coda, which propelled him to worldwide acclaim.

In 1976 Ferland joined different French-Canadian recording artists Claude Léveillée, Gilles Vigneault, and Robert Charlebois to carry out for the annual St. John’s Day live performance, an occasion which might tackle legendary standing in Montreal. Ferland commemorated the occasion with an album, Une Fois Cinq which was awarded the Académie Charles Cros Award the next 12 months.

Along with his personal work as a stay performer, Ferland was a prodigious songwriter, writing hits for artists comparable to Céline Dion, Félix Leclerc, Ginette Reno, and Nathalie Simard, amongst others.

He formally retired with well being points in 2006 however continued to carry out, together with in 2008 when he joined Celine Dion, Zachary Richard, Éric Lapointe, Claude Dubois, Jean-Pierre Ferland and Ginette Reno for a efficiency within the Plains of Abraham battlefield in Quebec to mark town’s four-hundredth anniversary.

He was made a Knight of the Nationwide Order of Quebec in 2003 and inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Corridor of Fame in 2007.