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Dédé Fortin, the Glossary

André "Dédé" Fortin (17 November 1962 – 8 May 2000) was a founding member, frontman, and guitarist of the Québécois band Les Colocs, formed in 1990.^[1]

27 relations: Beat (music), Blues rock, Culture of Quebec, Diouf, Félix Award, Folk rock, Genre, La Presse (Canadian newspaper), Le Plateau-Mont-Royal, Lead vocalist, Les Colocs, Montreal, Normandin, Quebec, Patrick Esposito Di Napoli, Quebec, Quebec sovereignty movement, Reggae, Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Saint-Thomas-Didyme, Sébastien Ricard, Senegal, Ska, Tassez-vous de d'là, The Gazette (Montreal), Through the Mist, Université de Montréal, 1995 Quebec referendum.
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Beat (music)

In music and music theory, the beat is the basic unit of time, the pulse (regularly repeating event), of the mensural level (or beat level).

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Blues rock

Blues rock is a fusion genre and form of rock music that relies on the chords/scales and instrumental improvisation of blues.

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Culture of Quebec

The culture of Quebec emerged over the last few hundred years, resulting predominantly from the shared history of the French-speaking North American majority in Quebec.

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Diouf

Diouf (French spelling in Senegal) or "Joof" (English spelling in The Gambia) is a Serer surname.

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The Félix Award (Trophée Félix or Prix Félix) is an award, given by the Association du disque, de l'industrie du spectacle québécois (ADISQ) on an annual basis to artists working in the music and humor industry in the Canadian province of Quebec.

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Folk rock

Folk rock is a fusion genre of rock music with heavy influences from pop, English and American folk music.

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Genre

Genre (kind, sort) is any style or form of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially agreed-upon conventions developed over time.

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La Presse (Canadian newspaper)

, founded in 1884, is a federalist, left-wing French-language online newspaper published daily in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Le Plateau-Mont-Royal

Le Plateau-Mont-Royal is a borough (arrondissement) of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Lead vocalist

The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard.

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Les Colocs

Les Colocs (The Roommates) were a rock music group from Québec formed in 1990 in Montreal.

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Montreal

Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.

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Normandin, Quebec

Normandin is a city located on the west side of Lac Saint-Jean in the Canadian province of Quebec.

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Patrick Esposito Di Napoli

Patrick Esposito Di Napoli (January 18, 1964 – November 13, 1994) was a musician and member of the Quebec musical band Les Colocs, for which he played harmonica. Dédé Fortin and Patrick Esposito Di Napoli are les Colocs members.

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Quebec

QuebecAccording to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Quebec sovereignty movement

The Quebec sovereignty movement (mouvement souverainiste du Québec) is a political movement whose objective is to achieve the independence of Quebec from Canada.

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Reggae

Reggae is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

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Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean

Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean is a region in Quebec, Canada.

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Saint-Thomas-Didyme

Saint-Thomas-Didyme is a municipality in Maria-Chapdelaine Regional County Municipality in the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec, Canada.

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Sébastien Ricard

Sébastien Ricard (born May 25, 1972) is a Canadian musician and actor from Quebec, most noted as a member of the hip hop band Loco Locass.

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Senegal

Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country.

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Ska

Ska (skia) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.

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Tassez-vous de d'là

"Tassez-vous de d'là" is a song by the Quebec band Les Colocs.

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The Gazette (Montreal)

The Gazette, also known as the Montreal Gazette, is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper which is owned by Postmedia Network.

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Through the Mist

Through the Mist (Dédé, à travers les brumes) is a Canadian drama film, directed by Jean-Philippe Duval and released in 2009.

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Université de Montréal

The (UdeM;; translates to University of Montreal) is a French-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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1995 Quebec referendum

The 1995 Quebec referendum was the second referendum to ask voters in the predominantly French-speaking Canadian province of Quebec whether Quebec should proclaim sovereignty and become an independent country, with the condition precedent of offering a political and economic agreement to Canada.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dédé_Fortin