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Host Stéphane Leclair and singer Richard Desjardins in Val-d’Or.PHOTO: Radio-CanadaPublished October 12, 2023
Singer-songwriter Richard Desjardins is one of the most assertive Quebec artists. He was born in 1948 in Rouyn-Noranda, a few streets from the Horne Foundry, one of the largest copper factories in the world, and also one of the most polluting. His life near this factory, but also near the superb lakes and forests of Abitibi, inspired his art. His songs Do you love me, When I love once, I love forever et The good guy have become essential. “Writing a song, psychologically, is very demanding,” he said, among other things, during this intimate discussion with host Stéphane Leclair.
Richard Desjardins also recounts the circumstances in which he gave his first solo concert, in Val-d’Or, where his interest in poetry and in Frédéric Chopin comes from, and why he wrote an open letter to the government of François Legault asking the closure of the Horne Foundry. “The relationship we have with the forest must change, it must return to what it was originally,” says the co-director of the documentaries The boreal error, The invisible people et Trou Story.
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