{"id":1834,"date":"2020-05-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2020-06-12T14:51:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:51:27","slug":"renee-claude-cm-actress-singer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=1834","title":{"rendered":"Ren\u00e9e Claude CM, actress & singer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ren\u00e9e Claude CM \u2011 a Canadian actress and singer from Quebec \u2011 died on May 12, 2020 due to COVID-19.<\/p>\n

She was best known as an interpretive singer, particularly of songs by St\u00e9phane Venne, Michel Conte, Georges Brassens and L\u00e9o Ferr\u00e9.<\/p>\n

She was born Ren\u00e9e B\u00e9langer, in Montreal. She studied piano at the \u00c9cole de musique Vincent-d’Indy, took singing lessons from Alphonse Ledoux, and won a music competition on CKVL radio program D\u00e9couvertes de Billy Munro in 1955.<\/p>\n

In 1960 she made her first major television appearance on Cl\u00e9mence DesRochers’s T\u00e9l\u00e9vision de Radio-Canada variety show Chez Cl\u00e9mence. Around the same era she began performing in Quebec City’s bo\u00eetes \u00e0 chanson, specializing in the songs of Ferr\u00e9, Brassens and Jean-Pierre Ferland. She released her self-titled first album on Distribution Select in 1963, and followed up with three more albums on the label by 1966.<\/p>\n

In 1967 she made an appearance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and performed at Expo 67 in Montreal. In the same year she moved to Columbia Records and released her breakthrough album Shippagan; the album’s title track was her first major hit single in Quebec, and she won the award for best singer at the Gala des artistes in 1968. However, Shippagan was her sole album for Columbia, as she moved to Barclay for her 1969 album C’est notre f\u00eate aujourd’hui.<\/p>\n

She released five further albums on Barclay between 1969 and 1973, and scored popular hits in this era with the songs “C’est notre f\u00eate aujourd’hui”, “Le Tour de la terre”, “La Rue de la Montagne”, “Tu trouveras la paix”, “Le D\u00e9but d’un temps nouveau”, “C’est toi, c’est moi, c’est lui, c’est nous autres”, “Quand le temps tournera au beau”, “T’oublier, t’oublier” and “Sais-tu que je t’aime depuis longtemps”.<\/p>\n

She then moved to London Records, for whom she released two albums in 1975 and 1976, and then to Solset Records, releasing an album in 1979.<\/p>\n

In the 1980s, with pop tastes changing, Claude began creating shows and albums that paid tribute to specific artists who had inspired her, including DesRochers, Brassens and Ferr\u00e9. She won the Grand Prix du Disque for French Song from the Acad\u00e9mie Charles Cros in 1996 for her Ferr\u00e9 album On a march\u00e9 sur l’amour.<\/p>\n

In the 1990s she began taking acting roles, appearing in stage productions of Nelligan, Tu faisais comme un appel and Marcel poursuivi par les chiens, in the television series Avec un grand A, Lance et compte and Triplex, and in the films It’s Your Turn, Laura Cadieux (C’t’\u00e0 ton tour, Laura Cadieux) and Station Nord.<\/p>\n

She was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 2009.<\/p>\n

In February 2019, it was announced that Claude had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Following the announcement, singers Ginette Reno, Diane Dufresne, C\u00e9line Dion, Isabelle Boulay, Luce Dufault, Louise Forestier, Laurence Jalbert, Catherine Major, Ariane Moffatt, Marie Denise Pelletier and Marie-\u00c9laine Thibert participated in a supergroup recording of “Tu trouveras la paix” as a charitable fundraiser for Alzheimer’s research.<\/p>\n

Some of the same artists, as well as Cl\u00e9mence DesRochers and Kathleen Fortin, performed at a fundraising benefit concert on November 15, 2019 at Montreal Symphony House.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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