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Les Colocs, the Glossary

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Les Colocs (The Roommates) were a rock music group from Québec formed in 1990 in Montreal.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 25 relations: Album, AllMusic, Alternative rock, Blues, BMG Music Canada, Brass instrument, Compilation album, Country music, Dédé Fortin, Diouf, Discogs, Joel Zifkin, List of bands from Canada, Montreal, Music of Africa, Music of Senegal, Patrick Esposito Di Napoli, Quebec, Quebec French, Rock music, Rock music of Canada, Senegal, Serge Robert, Swing music, Swing revival.

  2. 1990 establishments in Quebec
  3. 2000 disestablishments in Quebec

Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette), or digital.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also known as alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a category of rock music that evolved from the independent music underground of the 1970s.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s.

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BMG Music Canada

BMG Music Canada was the Canadian division of BMG, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Brass instrument

A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips.

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Compilation album

A compilation album comprises tracks, which may be previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one performer or by several performers.

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Country music

Country (also called country and western) is a music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and the Southwest.

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Dédé Fortin

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.

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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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Discogs

Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases.

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Joel Zifkin

Joel Zifkin (born April 14, 1954) is a Canadian musician and songwriter.

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List of bands from Canada

This is a list of bands from Canada.

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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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Music of Africa

Given the vastness of the African continent, its music is diverse, with regions and nations having many distinct musical traditions.

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Music of Senegal

Senegal's music is best known abroad due to the popularity of mbalax, a development of conservative music from different ethnic groups and sabar drumming popularized internationally by Youssou N'Dour.

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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.

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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 French

Quebec French (français québécois), also known as Québécois French, is the predominant variety of the French language spoken in Canada.

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Rock music

Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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Rock music of Canada

Rock music of Canada is a wide and diverse part of the general music of Canada, beginning with American and British style rock and roll in the mid-20th century.

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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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Serge Robert

Mononc' Serge (real name Serge Robert; born 1970) is a Québécois musician and poet who sings in French.

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Swing music

Swing music is a style of jazz that developed in the United States during the late 1920s and early 1930s.

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Swing revival

The swing revival, also called retro swing and neo-swing, was a renewed interest in swing music and Lindy Hop dance, beginning around 1989 and reaching a peak from the early/mid to late 1990s.

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See also

1990 establishments in Quebec

2000 disestablishments in Quebec

References

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

Also known as Colocs.