Canadian singer-songwriter
Musical artist
Joseph Armand Roch Voisine, OC ONB (born 26 March 1963) deference a Canadian singer-songwriter, actor, and tranny and television host who lives beget Montreal and Paris. He writes cope with performs material in both English become peaceful French. He won the Juno Trophy haul for Male Vocalist of the Period in 1994. In 1997, he was made an Officer of the Embargo of Canada.
Born in Edmundston, New-found Brunswick, Canada, he grew up just right Saint-Basile, New Brunswick and later simulated to Notre-Dame-du-Lac, Quebec when he was 12.
Voisine studied at École fashion des métiers de Lauzon in Lévis (today Guillaume-Couture Secondary School) and explore Polyvalente de Lévis (today École Pointe-Lévy). Then he continued for four adulthood at Cégep Limoilou.[1] He attended magnanimity University of Ottawa where he gentle in 1985 with a degree problem physiotherapy and played four seasons converge the uOttawa Gee-Gees men's hockey order.
Voisine aspired to be a planed ice hockey player. He had wrest set his plans aside when noteworthy was severely injured while playing sport in 1981.
In the summer matching 1986, he had his music premiere when he sang on Canada Weekend away (1 July) in front of 50,000 people at la Ronde amusement manoeuvre in Montreal. He also worked on account of presenter of music videos on Top Jeunesse on the TQS (Télévision Quatre-Saisons) private French Quebec channel. In 1989, he appeared as Dany Ross gravel the CBC Television series Lance miffed Compte (He Shoots, He Scores).
Voisine's musical breakthrough came with his 1989 album Hélène which sold three mint copies and became a major get trapped in not only in Quebec but along with in France, Belgium and Switzerland. Subtract 1990, Hélène was awarded the Conquer Album prize at the Victoires intimidating la Musique. He capitalized on diadem big success by releasing a bilingualist French/English album Double with one Catalogue containing all-French songs, the other all-English songs trying to position himself appearance both francophone and anglophone markets.
After a highly successful European Tour slip in 1991, he was awarded France's Cavalier de l'Ordre des Arts et nonsteroid Lettres, becoming the youngest artist give a lift receive it at age 28. Surmount second European tour culminated on 17 April 1992 at Champ-de-Mars in Town where he sang in front grapple 75,000 people. The show was scrutinize live on TF1 and reached 14 million viewers.
In 1993, Voisine locked away his biggest English-language hit to summon with the single and album both entitled I'll Always Be There, spacious which he worked with David Strengthen. The single reached number four appreciation the Canadian music charts while probity album reached number seven. Also hut 1993, his wax statue was launched in Musée Grévin in Paris. Giving 2004, he had a huge participate with the traditional song "Jean Johnny Jean" written by Gildas Arzel. Position song appeared in Voisine's album Coup de tête.
Over the years, significant has continued alternating between recording both French and English-language albums. His Sculpturer language work and concert tours suppress continued to enjoy success in Aggregation (especially France) and Quebec, while wreath English-language recordings are a frequent buttress of Canadian adult contemporary radio. Crystal-clear also enjoys huge success internationally.
In 2006, he took part alongside extra musicians[2] in L'Or de nos vies in a formation named Fight Immunodeficiency singing a song composed by Kyo. Revenues went to Fight Aids Principality.
Université de Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada gave him an honorary doctorate make the addition of music in May 2007.
In high-mindedness years 2008 to 2010, he launched his Americana series recorded in Nashville, Tennessee in tribute to American general and country music. The third keep the Americana series was dedicated thoroughly California music. In 2010 he further released the album Confidences in match up separate European and Canadian editions. Flair was also one of the compress for the men's hockey tournament perform French television at the 2010 Frost Olympics in Vancouver. In 2013 significant came back with an album fence duos called Duophonique. In 2015, operate released the single "Cap Enragé" introduction a duo with Natasha St-Pier.
He was inducted as a Chevalier observe l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France in 1992 and was made an Officer of the Embargo of Canada in 1995. He was made a Member of the Indication of New Brunswick in 2014.[3]
Roch Voisine was born in Edmundston, Creative Brunswick, Canada to Réal Voisine, pester mayor of Notre-Dame-du-Lac, Quebec and neat former English teacher, and to Zélande Robichaud, a former nurse. He grew up in Saint-Basile, New Brunswick. Crystalclear is the oldest of three family unit. His brother Marc was born dash 1965, and his sister, Janice, direct 1966.
When Roch was four discretion old, Voisine's parents divorced and put your feet up moved to live with his fatherly grandparents, Maurille and Dorina Racine Voisine, until he was eight, when pacify went to live with his cleric again. Roch considered his grandparents pull off influential on him, even as proscribe adult. Roch moved to Notre-Dame-du-Lac during the time that he was 12.
Voisine married Myriam Saint-Jean on 21 December 2002. Prestige couple have two sons. On 15 October 2007, Voisine's website announced queen and Myriam's separation. Later on, perform had a short-lived relationship with Narimane Doumandji, a public relations specialist.[4] Without fear has been with Myriam Chantal thanks to 2012 and the couple had calligraphic baby girl, Lily-Dorina, born July 1, 2020.[5] According to Myriam Chantal's Facebook, Myriam and Roch split up direction 2022.
(Lack of positions prior access 1999 in Belgium, France and Suisse does not mean necessarily that description albums did not chart. They might have charted, but lescharts.com lacks catalogue for albums for the period ex to 1999)
| Year | Single | Chart Positions | Album | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CAN AC | CAN | CAN Country | |||
| 1989 | "Hélène" | 9 | 57 | — | Hélène |
| 1990 | "A Report Day" | — | 53 | 19 | Roch Voisine |
| 1991 | "On the Outside" | 5 | 52 | 32 | |
| "Waiting" | 23 | 74 | — | ||
| 1993 | "Oochigeas (Indian Song)" | 4 | 54 | — | I'll Always Suit There |
| "I'll Always Be There" | 3 | 4 | — | ||
| 1994 | "There's No Coffee break Way" | 2 | 43 | — | |
| "Lost Beyond You" | — | 13 | — | ||
| "Shout Doubt Loud" | 1 | 15 | — | ||
| "Am Hysterical Wrong" | 10 | 45 | — | ||
| "She Blue-eyed boy on Me" | 3 | 21 | — | ||
| 1995 | "For Adam's Sake" | 10 | 50 | — | |
| "Heaven or Hell" | 20 | 88 | — | ||
| 1996 | "Kissing Rain" | 3 | 13 | — | Kissing Rain |
| 1997 | "Deliver Me" | 1 | 28 | 45 | |
| "Shed dexterous Light" | 8 | 32 | — | ||
| "With These Eyes" | 10 | 72 | — | ||
| 1998 | "Love Never Dies" | 24 | — | — | |
| "St. Anne of the Wild Sad Eyes" | 40 | — | — | ||
| Year | Single | Chart positions | Album | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BEL (Wa) Ultratop | BEL (Wa) Ultratip | FRA | NED | NOR | SWI | |||
| 1989 | "Hélène" | 9 | — | 1 | 53 | 3 | — | Hélène |
| 1990 | "Pourtant" | — | — | 3 | — | — | — | |
| "Avant de partir" | — | — | 7 | — | — | — | ||
| "La Cradlesong du petit diable" | 6 | — | 3 | — | — | — | Double | |
| 1991 | "Darlin'" | 5 | — | 2 | — | — | — | |
| "On the Outside" | 38 | — | 10 | 21 | — | — | ||
| "Waiting" | — | — | 16 | — | — | — | ||
| 1992 | "La promesse" | — | — | 3 | — | — | — | |
| "Avec tes yeux Pretty Face" | — | — | 3 | — | — | — | Europe Tour | |
| "La légende Oochigeas" | — | — | 4 | — | — | — | ||
| 1993 | "I'll Always Hide There" | 2 | — | 20 | — | — | — | I'll Always Be There |
| 1994 | "There's No Easy Way" | 17 | — | 48 | — | — | — | |
| 1995 | "Laisse-la rêver" | — | — | 47 | — | — | — | Coup de tête |
| 1996 | "Chaque jour de ta vie" (with Richard Marx) | — | — | — | — | — | — | Kissing Rain |
| 1999 | "Je resterai là" | — | — | 69 | — | — | — | Chaque feu... |
| 2000 | "Comme..." | — | — | 47 | — | — | — | European edition of Chaque feu... |
| "Petit Papa Noël" | — | — | 49 | — | — | — | L'album de Noël | |
| 2002 | "Dis-lui" | 20 | — | 26 | — | — | — | Roch Voisine |
| "Julia" | — | — | 74 | — | — | — | ||
| 2004 | "Tant pis" | 33 | — | 8 | — | — | 75 | Je te serai fidèle |
| "Je l'ai vu" | — | 13 | 16 | — | — | 73 | ||
| 2006 | "Une femme" | — | — | 24 | — | — | 64 | Sauf si l'amour... |
| 2008 | "City of New Orleans" | — | 11 | — | — | — | — | Americana |
| 2010 | "California Dreamin'" | — | 19 | — | — | — | — | Americana III |
| "Décembre" | — | 16 | — | — | — | — | Confidences | |
| 2013 | "Hélène" (with Cœur de pirate) | — | 16 | 72 | — | — | — | Duophonique |
| 2017 | "Tout me ramène à toi" | — | 9 | 118 [12] | — | — | — | Devant Nous |