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The poet and writer Claude Péloquin, to whom we owe in particular the words of the mythical song "Lindbergh", popularized by Robert Charlebois and Louise Forestier, is dead.
Claude Péloquin died of widespread cancer Sunday evening at the palliative care wing of the Marie-Clarac Hospital in Montreal, announced Tuesday his liaison officer, René Corbeil, who also describes himself as his best friend and roommate.
The lyricist was 76 years old.
Claude Péloquin is also known for having pronounced the legendary sentence scandal "You're not sick of dying, band cellars?", Engraved by the sculptor Jordi Bonet on the mural of the Grand Theater of Quebec, in 1970, to invite the Quebeckers to take their destiny in hand.
Hidden disease
Étienne Poirier, executive director of Les Écrits des Forges, who worked closely with Claude Péloquin to publish his book "La Valse fatale", published in December 2017, mentioned that the poet hid his illness.
"I am in shock. With Claude, we had a beautiful relationship. I only had good contacts with him. I am shaken. He kept it secret from his publisher to the end, "he said in a telephone interview at QMI Agency on Tuesday.
Mr. Poirier mentioned that he had invited Claude Péloquin to the last Montreal Book Fair, which was held in mid-November, but that his agent had declined without providing details.
He is convinced, however, that the author knew that he was ill when he wrote this work of poetry published in the publishing house he directs.
"There was something of a poetic testament in this book," said Étienne Poirier.
"Osstidcho"
Claude Péloquin was born in Montreal, August 26, 1942. Poet, writer, singer-songwriter, screenwriter and director, he never feared to generate controversy with his writings and his words.
As an author, Claude Péloquin has written about thirty books during his career. The first, "Jericho", a collection of poems, was published in 1963. More recently, the artist launched "The poet on fire" (2014) and "The fatal waltz" (2017).
In 1964, he founded the improvisation group "L'Horloge", with Serge Lemoyne, Yves Hébert and Jean Gauguet-Larouche. A year later, he founded the Zirmate collective, which is dedicated to the search for a "total art", which is particularly worthy of Expo 67.
In 1968, he composed texts for "L'Osstidcho", with accomplices like Paul Buissonneau, Robert Charlebois, Yvon Deschamps, Louise Forestier, Mouffe, Michel Robidoux and Marcel Sabourin. In the process, he lays the hymn that will become "Lindbergh", which will then earn him the Félix-Leclerc prize for Canadian composition.
Claude Péloquin also wrote for Robert Charlebois in the 80s, among others for the album "Super Position" (1985), before moving to the Bahamas, where he lived for fifteen years. He returned to live in Quebec in the late 1990s.
On March 27, 1970, he participated in the Nuit de la Poésie, which marked Quebec's cultural history, and derived into a documentary by Jean-Claude Labrecque and Jean-Pierre Masse.
In 1975, he contributed to Claude Léveillée's album "Let's go back in love".
He scripted and directed, for the National Film Board (NFB), the documentary shorts "The New Man" (1969) and "Ball of Gin" (1970). In 1971, he won a Canadian Film Award, in Toronto, for the best non-dramatic scenario for a documentary film, for "The New Man", co-designed with Yves André, whose motto "You're not tired of dying cellar band? "is the driving force.
In the field of visual arts, he collaborated with some 25 painters and sculptors, including Alfred Pellan, Stanley Cosgrove, Marc Séguin and the Spanish painter Villalonga.
In music, Claude Péloquin offered the albums "Let us kiss you where you are hurting" (1972) – a collaboration with Jean Sauvageau, who has signed the ambient music, collection of titles such as "Mr. Indian "," Emiliano "and" The Great Silent "-" Pélo Krispé "(1973)," The Songs of Eternity "(1977)," The Opening of Paradise "(1979) and" Everyone in Heaven " (2000).
In 2009, Claude Péloquin wrote a poem that was to be read by businessman Guy Laliberté during his journey in space. However, a disagreement between the two men led Laliberte to turn around and cancel his collaboration with Péloquin. It was finally Yann Martel who offered the prose read by Laliberté during his journey in space. The case then gave rise to a public quarrel, through interposed media, between Robert Charlebois, who had spoken on the subject, and his former acolyte Claude Péloquin.
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