HOME

TheInfoList



Click Here for Items Related To - Georges Dor
OR:
Georges Dor on:   [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Amazon]

Georges Dor (March 10, 1931 – July 24, 2001) was a '' Québécois'' author, composer, playwright, singer, poet, translator, and theatrical producer and director.


Early life

Dor was born Georges-Henri Dore in
Drummondville Drummondville is a city in the Centre-du-Québec region of Quebec, located east of Montreal on the Saint-François River. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 79,258. The mayor of Drummondville is Stéphanie Lacoste. Drummondville is ...
into a large family. As a young man he worked in a factory, and studied at the École du Théâtre du Nouveau Monde in Montréal.


Career

Dor undertook a career in radio as a disk jockey and news director. In the 1950s he worked at CHLN in Trois-Rivières. Beginning in 1957, he worked for
Radio-Canada The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (french: Société Radio-Canada), branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian public broadcaster for both radio and television. It is a federal Crown corporation that receives funding from the government. ...
where he became a director for the Evening News."Georges Dor n'est plus"
''TVA Nouvelles'', 24 July 2001 Dor wrote poems for many years; in 1964 he was encouraged by friends to compete in an amateur singing competition. He began singing professionally in early 1965, and released his first album in 1966. One of the songs from this album, his composition "La Manic", whose lyrics were a love letter written by a construction worker on the Manicouagan power project, became the most popular recording ever by a
Quebec Quebec ( ; )According 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 thirtee ...
chansonnier A chansonnier ( ca, cançoner, oc, cançonièr, Galician and pt, cancioneiro, it, canzoniere or ''canzoniéro'', es, cancionero) is a manuscript or printed book which contains a collection of chansons, or polyphonic and monophonic settings o ...
, winning the Felix Leclerc award at the 1968 Festival du Disques. Other songs of his had success, most notably "Une boîte à chanson" (A Music Box)"Georges Dor "
biography by Claude Morin, Musée des Grands Québécois website and "Pour la musique" (For Music). He continued to perform as a singer until 1972, and to record until 1978. After that he worked mainly in the theatre and in television, producing and writing plays and
téléroman A téléroman ("telenovel" or ''annual drama series'') is a genre of French-language drama television series in Canada, similar to a soap opera or a Spanish language telenovela. In France, the ''téléroman'' genre is known as feuilleton télévi ...
s. He also wrote two novels and published several collections of poetry."L'angle mort du français québécois"
''La Presse'', March 24, 2015. by Gérard Bouchard


See also

*
List of Quebec musicians This is a list of singers, bands, composers and other musicians from the province of Quebec. Blues * Garou – also pop * Okoumé – also néo-trad, rock and electronica * Roxanne Potvin – singer, guitarist * David Wilcox Chanson * D ...
*
Music of Quebec Like many cosmopolitan cities, Quebec is a home for all genres of music. From folk music to hip hop music, hip hop, music has always played an important role in Quebecer culture. In the 1920s and '30s singer/songwriter La Bolduc, Madam Bolduc pe ...
*
Television of Quebec Television in Quebec is a part of the culture of Quebec, with over 99% of households owning a television in Quebec. Long a preferred medium of many of Quebec's actors, artists, and writers, television has been one of the important forces in Quebec s ...
*
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. Québécois culture, as a whole, constitutes all distinctive traits – spiri ...


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dor, Georges 1931 births 2001 deaths People from Drummondville Musicians from Quebec Songwriters from Quebec French Quebecers Canadian writers in French Place of death missing 20th-century Canadian male singers