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The writer Claude Péloquin, to whom we owe in particular the words of the mythical song "Lindbergh", popularized by Robert Charlebois and Louise Forestier, is deceased.
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 poet was 76 years old.
Claude Péloquin is also known for having uttered the legendary sentence "You're not sick of dying, band of cellars?", Engraved by the sculptor Jordi Bonet on the mural of the Grand Théâtre de Québec, in 1970, to invite Quebecers to take their destiny into their own hands.
"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 composes texts for "L'Osstidcho" and lays in the wake the hymn that will become "Lindbergh", which will then earn him the Félix-Leclerc prize for the 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.
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 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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