Bon vivint roch voisine biography

He writes and performs material in both English and French. In , he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Voisine aspired to be a professional ice hockey player. He had to set his plans aside when he was severely injured while playing baseball in In the summer of , he had his music debut when he sang on Canada Day 1 July in front of 50, people at la Ronde amusement park in Montreal.

After a highly successful European Tour in , he was awarded France's Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres , becoming the youngest artist to receive it at age His second European tour culminated on 17 April at Champ-de-Mars 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 with the single and album both entitled I'll Always Be There , on which he worked with David Foster.

The single reached number four on the Canadian music charts while the album reached number seven. In , he had a huge success with the traditional song " Jean Johnny Jean " written by Gildas Arzel. Over the years, he has continued alternating between recording both French and English-language albums.

This thesis explores the nature and the mechanisms of change of language prestige and language attitudes in two neighbouring Romance languages: Occitan and.

His French language work and concert tours have continued to enjoy success in Europe especially France and Quebec, while his English-language recordings are a frequent mainstay of Canadian adult contemporary radio. He also enjoys huge success internationally. In , he took part alongside other musicians [ 2 ] in L'Or de nos vies in a formation named Fight Aids singing a song composed by Kyo.

Revenues went to Fight Aids Monaco. In the years to , he launched his Americana series recorded in Nashville , Tennessee in tribute to American popular and country music.