Feb 23 2019
Winnipeg March 5 & 6
First time in that part of my country, I will stay in hotel downtown Winnipeg and looking forward to visit Saint-Boniface, the French quarter, I will feel just right home! It’s the province of one of my favorite singer : Daniel Lavoie, from Dunrea. His song was first written in English, but it’s singing it in French that got him “out there” and was translated after in Spanish, Portuguese and Russia.
«This album was my last chance, because I could not earn for a living, all that I earned just went back into the circulation. I began to feel dissatisfied, I was 34-35 years old, and then I said: «I do not want to live all my life like this»… Because I really earned at the very poor people level. And I remember the day when I wrote this song. I was working as usual, composing songs… At noon I made a break to prepare myself a sandwich, went home, turned on the TV, listened to daily news… And there was a report from Beirut, because it was 1983.
Beirut was in fire, covered with blood and destroyed. In that report I saw two teenagers, holding their hands at the ruins, and it really shocked and impressed me at the same time. Such a things make you smile in a surrounding darkness. It pushed me back into my studio where I wrote «Ils s’aiment» in 15 minutes. I sing this song so far, and I always feel the same emotions, because it feels like I am in Jerusalem, in Baghdad at the moment… This song is always truthful, awfully truthful…»
This is not the original one, (original one is much better) but I posted it because it is subtitled in English and he is so sexy with those big brown eyes that you can’t see on this video! 😆
