Claude André Dubois (born 24 April 1947) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Dubois was an early star of the

Francophone French became an international language in the Middle Ages, when the power of the Kingdom of France made it the second international language, alongside Latin. This status continued to grow into the 18th century, by which time French was the l ...

musical '' Starmania''. He was a vocalist in the Canadian famine relief song "

Tears Are Not Enough "Tears Are Not Enough" is a 1985 charity single recorded by a supergroup of Canadian artists, under the name Northern Lights, to raise funds for relief of the 1983–85 famine in Ethiopia. It was one of a number of such supergroup singles reco ...

" and was nominated Most Promising Male Vocalist at the

Juno Awards of 1985 The Juno Awards of 1985, representing Canadian music industry achievements of the previous year, were awarded on 4 November 1985 in Toronto. The ceremony was hosted by Andrea Martin and Martin Short at the Harbour Castle Hilton Hotel. New categ ...

. In 2001, Dubois was the recipient of the National Achievement Award at the annual Francophone

SOCAN The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN) is a Canadian performance rights organization that represents the performing rights of more than 135,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers. The organization collects ...

Awards held in Montreal. More recently, Dubois accused the

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of "racism" and "insulting Quebecers" after chopping all of the Quebec artists from the televised version of the 2008

Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame (''Panthéon des Auteurs et Compositeurs canadiens'') is a Canadian non-profit organization, founded in 1998 by Frank Davies, that inducts Canadians into their ''Hall of Fame'' within three different categori ...

gala in

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* * 1947 births Living people Canadian pop singers Canadian male musical theatre actors Canadian male singer-songwriters French-language singers of Canada French Quebecers Singers from Montreal Songwriters from Quebec Writers from Montreal {{Canada-singer-stub