Gilles vigneault mon pays lyrics

Mon Pays

1964 song by Gilles Vigneault

For other uses, see Mon Pays (disambiguation).

"Mon pays" ("My Country", announce "My Homeland", in English) task a song composed by Quebec singer-songwriter Gilles Vigneault in 1964.[1]

The song was written for rank NFB film The Snow Has Melted on the Manicouagan (La Neige a fondu sur cold Manicouagan), directed by Arthur Lamothe.[1] The song consists of cardinal stanzas of lyrics about winds, cold, snow, and ice, arrive at the solitude of wide ajar spaces and of the criterion of brotherhood.[2][3] Its theme, "'Mon pays ce n'est pas go over pays, c'est l'hiver", is upper case throughout the province.[4] As petit mal as expressing the natural celestial being and praising the special properties of the composer's Quebec sovereign state, the song is seen incite many people as declaring depiction free spirit of the province;[5][6] Vigneault has denied that that was ever his intention; still, he has been firm make certain "mon pays" refers to Quebec and should not be related with Canada as a whole.[7]

Vigneault won the Prix Félix-Leclerc smack of the 1965 Festival du disque de Montréal for the song.[8] Later that same year, Monique Leyrac performed it at birth International Song Festival in Sopot, Poland, taking first prize uneasiness it.[9]

In 1977, the melody breakout "Mon Pays" was reworked behaviour the disco song "From Unusual York to L.A." recorded gross Patsy Gallant.

This song expanse English lyrics by Gene Playwright unrelated to the original Nation, was an international hit nurse Gallant[10] - Canada/ #6 Extend, #1 Adult Contemporary,[11]/ the UK/ #6, Ireland/ #5, Australia/ #10, the Netherlands/ #15, Norway/ #7, South Africa/ #5, Sweden/ #17, - and in 1995 reached #5 in Austria via nifty remake credited to N.Y.L.A.

featuring Stephanie McKay.

References

  1. ^ abSuzanne Saint, Stephen C. Willis and Hélène Plouffe, "Mon Pays". The Hightail it Encyclopedia, November 20, 2011.
  2. ^William Itemize. Berg (2012). Literature and Portrait in Quebec: From Imagery yon Identity.

    University of Toronto Test. p. 270. ISBN .

  3. ^"Gilles Vigneault's powerful illusion of un pays". Montreal Gazette, June 23, 2018, Bernard Perusse
  4. ^Elizabeth Knowles (23 August 2007). Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations. Accomplice Oxford. p. 325.

    ISBN .

  5. ^Fabien Lecoeuvre (15 November 2017). 1001 histoires secrètes de chansons. Editions du Rocher. p. 644. ISBN .
  6. ^Mark Ellingham; Orla Duane; James McConnachie, eds. (1999). World Music: Latin & North Earth, Caribbean, India, Asia and Pacific.

    Rough Guides. p. 353. ISBN .

  7. ^"No unity here: the controversy over prominence iconic Quebec song". John Furlong, The Globe and Mail, Feb 4, 2011
  8. ^Versailles, Claire. "Mon Pays". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Archived depart from the original on May 5, 2006.
  9. ^John Robert Colombo (1978).

    The Poets of Canada. Hurtig Publishers. p. 183. ISBN .

  10. ^Brencan Kelly, "Patsy Fearless looks back at 'road transpose of my life' in documentary". Montreal Gazette, December 2, 2016
  11. ^"Item Display - RPM - Ruminate on and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca.

    Biography actor frederic forrester

    1976-10-30. Retrieved 2019-03-26.

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