#Diane Dufresne

[pop-art-sixties-seventies]

Diane Dufresne, 1970.

[starmaniamania]

Luc Plamondon and notoriously Starmania-shy Diane Dufresne attending the Québec press premiere together (Aug 7, 2024)

[unknown171204]

Le 30ème anniversaire

Pour célébrer l'anniversaire de Starmania, le 24 avril 2009 sur France2 France Gall à animer une émission téléviser ou divers chanteurs français et trois anciens membres des diverses versions du spectacle ont rendu hommage à l’opéra rock :

Christophe Willem :

La troupe de Mozart l'opéra rock :

Jenifer :

Amel Bent :

Renaud Handson :

Julien Doré :

Diane Dufresne :

Maurane :

Lara Fabian :

Nolwenn Leroy :

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Pour plus de Starmania

ou pour découvrir d'autres comédie musical française :)

Lien Masterlist : https://www.tumblr.com/unknown171204/748996810302980096/masterlist?source=share

[ascle]

Félicitations à DIANE DUFRESNE pour son intronisation au Panthéon de la musique canadienne! 👏

Elle est la toute première interprète francophone à gagner cet honneur et la deuxième artiste francophone après Luc Plamondon en 1999.

[docwormie]

I don't even know what this is but I'm a gay nerd so !!! Some random thoughts that have been festering in my brain about Stella Spotlight's queerness:

So we all know how queercoded this whole show is, but my fav example of this is Stella and I don't see enough people talking about it !

Especially in the 2022 version but she always had this evelyn hugo vibe anyways !

Her story with Zéro Janvier is clearly devoid of any romantic interest on either part. Like sure, Ego Trip has some lyrics that imply feelings between them but each of these lyrics actually focuses more on loving themselves. Let's take a closer look: "Moi je suis avec toi parce que tu me fais du bien/toi tu te sers de moi pour arriver à tes fins" (btw the parallel between this and Johnny/Sadia !!!) is the whole message of the song: they're in that relationship for purely selfish reasons and there's no sign of affection at any point. "Un regard de toi me fait monter aux nues" is clearly about Zéro using Stella's fame to gain popularity, and even the proposal is staged as him wanting to gain possession over her (thus reinforcing the "golden cage" that's a leitmotiv with Stella's character).

I've seen people interpreting Zéro as queer too and him needing a wife to pursue his career because of homophobia or whatever. Idk if I support this theory because there are already 2 canon and out queer characters and their queerness doesn't seem like an actual issue in Monopolis, but I looove the idea of Zéro and Stella as a beard couple.

The same idea could apply to Stella: on top of her getting "old", she needs to maintain her image of purity and tradition ("symbole de la race blanche/de nos valeurs, et de nos libertés" implies she's already a right-wing symbol??)

Stella and her maid(s)... much to think about......

It's confirmed that she was inspired by Marlene Dietrich and Marylin Monroe, two notoriously queer actresses, c'mon guys ! (If I'm not mistaken)

The Tango de l'amour et de la Mort as an idea is so queer already and I'm mad it was deleted from every version post 1979. But can you imagine the lesbian energy radiating from a Sadia/Stella duet ? Maybe even with the choreography ??

Finally, in 2022, the Grand Gourou is played alternatively by a woman and a man, and Stella is as attracted to them no matter who the actor is. There's rainbow and bisexual lighting during the 0rgy. Idk what you want more from me !!! The story writes itself !! Stella is attracted in no way, shape or form to Zero but she sneaks out to see her "therapist" girlfriend ?? I'm gonna collapse

Fellas is it gay to throw yourself from the top of your husbands tower like 5 minutes after the wedding because you hate him ?

Anyways that's it for today but I will be back, the sapphic Stella Spotlight agenda will spread and there's nothing you can do to stop it !

[lesser-known-composers]

Kurt Weill (1900-1950) - Je ne t'aime pas (I don't love you) ·

Diane Dufresne · Orchestre Métropolitain · Yannick Nézet-Séguin

[caleblandrybones]

Tagged by @chocopinda and @insanityofvaas my two hot vaas twins and @zurdoabsurdo who's also hot

rules: 🎧🎵 when you get this, you have to put in 5 songs you actually listen to at the moment. Then tag 5-10 followers to do the same 🎵🎧

Le Dernier Jour du Disco - Juliette Armanet

Et je l'appelle encore - Véronique Sanson

Le monde est stone - Fabienne Thibeault

Les adieux d'un sex symbol - Diane Dufresne

Babooshka - Kate Bush

by god these reek of french and 70s nostalgia

tagging @karlavhh @omtai @gonblin @aminta @abliafina-18782 @mpregspn @thebusylilbee @scabby-lasagne @baldrmani @kr4kvn and no pressure but tag games are for hot bloggers so

[super-powerful-queen-reyna]

Zéro Janvier président de l'Occident has no right to slap so much

[miss-starmania]

🌟Photos of Starmania stars: Diane Dufresne

Photo credit: Pierre Cote, January 10, 1974

Source: Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ)

[stillsweetandwild]

#homesweethomewithyou #Iloveyou ❤ @drstrange0064

Je t'ai rencontré, simplement

Et tu n'as rien fait, pour chercher à me plaire

Je t'aime pourtant d'un amour ardent

Dont rien je le sens, ne pourra me défaire

Tu seras toujours, mon amant

Et je crois à toi, comme au bonheur suprême

Je te fuis parfois mais je reviens, quand même

C'est plus fort que moi

Je t'aime

Lorsque je souffre, il me faut tes yeux

Profonds et joyeux

Afin que j'y meure

Et j'ai besoin pour revivre, amour

De t'avoir un jour

Rien qu'un jour, une heure

De me bercer un peu dans, tes bras

Quand mon coeur est las

Quand parfois je pleure

Ah! crois-le, bien, mon chéri, mon aimé, mon roi

Je n'ai de bonheur qu'avec toi

Tu seras toujours, mon amant

Et je crois à toi, comme au bonheur suprême

Je te fuis parfois mais je reviens, quand même

C'est plus fort que moi

Je t'aime

🍂🍁💐🍂🔶🔶🔶🔶🔸🔸🔸🔶🔶🔶🔶🍂💐🍁🍂

--Diane Dufresne--

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Au début des années 80, trois stars québécoises réunies Marjo, Ginette Reno et Nanette Workman. À elles trois, elles allaient populariser nombre d’incontournables de la musique pop et rock du Québec. Évidemment il y a d'autres à vous de compléter la liste Isabelle Boulay

Ariane Moffatt

Chloé Sainte-Marie

Céline Dion

Diane Tell

Diane Dufresne

Marie-Mai

Lynda Lemay

Luce Dufault

Laurence Jalbert

Marilou

Martine St-Clair

Marie Denise Pelletier

France D’Amour

Marie-Chantal Toupin

Térez Montcalm

[bamboomusiclist]

3/26 おはようございます。 Coleman Hawkins / Accent On Tenor Sax UJLP1201 等更新完了しました。

Diane Dufresne / Follement Votre CMT80014Roland Hanna / Easy to Love 33-121Sonny Stitt / at the DJ Lounge lp-683Metropolitan Jazz Quartet / TV Show E3729Coleman Hawkins / Accent On Tenor Sax UJLP1201Barney Kessel Shelly Manne Ray Brown / Poll Winners Three s7576Lester Young / Blue Lester mg120 mg12068Herbie Hancock / Succotash bnla152fClifford Jordan / Royal Ballads criss1025Thelonious Monk / In…

[starmaniamania]

The cast meeting OG Stella Diane Dufresne, on their last date of Paris Season 1 (Jan 29, 2023)

Apparently they didn't know until the very last second if she would come -- she has a complicated relationship with Starmania and famously won't talk about it in interviews 😅 -- but she ended up loving it!

[unknown171204]

Starmania 1979

The French singer, author and composer Michel Berger one day heard about a surprising news item . Patricia Campbell Hearst, the daughter of a billionaire, kidnapped by terrorists ended up joining their movement out of love for one of her kidnappers !

This true story will fascinate him, to the point of starting an album inspired by this story :

This will be the “Angelina Dumas” project .

Ultimately the album never saw the light of day and only one song that remained of Berger's work remained that he recorded as a duet with his wife France Gall :

Frustrated by what he considers to be a failure, Michel will not let go of what he thinks (rightly) is a good artistic vein

thanks to his wife who will make him meet the Canadian singer Diane Dufresne, Michel will work with his lyricist Luc Plamondon with whom he created the most famous rock opera in France :

The story takes place in an undated future (despite a now outdated reference to the year 2000 and the 80s) Humans now live in underground galleries redeveloped into a huge city called Monopolis. The only mirage of happiness for ordinary citizens is the number 1 television show "Starmania" where everyone can become a star for one night .

We simultaneously follow the lives and actions of several characters :

Johnny Rockfort : A young anarchist leader of the terrorist group " les étoiles noires " ( the black stars )

Sadia : A transvestite student co-creator of " les étoiles noires "

Marie Jeanne : The depressed waitress who works at the " Underground café "

Ziggy : A mythomaniac and ambitious homosexual record store owner

Cristal : The host of Starmania

Stella Spotlight : A sex symbol on the decline

Zéro Janvier : An extremist politician running for became president

Gourou Marabout : An extremist politician also competing in the presidential election

Roger-Roger : the TV presenter

Brilliantly the duo Berger / Plamondon went out of their way to organize the broadcast of a special television program in 1978 in order to present the songs to as many people as possible :

The show was performed for a short month for 33 performances at the Palais des Congrès , but it is considered one of the greatest French musicals

DISTRIBUTION :

Daniel Balavoine : Johnny Rockfort

France Gall : Cristal

Fabienne Thibeault : Marie-Jeanne

Étienne Chicot : Zéro Janvier

Diane Dufresne : Stella Spotlight

Grégory Ken : Ziggy

Nanette Workman : Sadia

Roddy Julienne : le Gourou

René Joly : Roger-Roger

Due to his short presence on stage, the show unfortunately did not have the right to a complete recording but fortunately the audio of the show has available in its entirety !

To get an idea of ​​the visual identity of the show I had to dig into the TV archives :

The repetitions :

Full live audio of the show :

Single :

Monopolis / Quand on arrive en ville / Le blues du business man / La complainte de la serveuse automate / Ziggy / Le monde est stone

But the most memorable song is " SOS d'un terrien en détresse "

A song renowned for its difficulty and which launched the career of Daniel Balavoine then, years later, that of Star Academy 2004 winner Grégory Lemarchal :

ANECDOTES :

The original album contains two songs missing from the final show :

Petite Musique terrienne Part 2

L'air de l'extraterrestre

This extraterrestrial is a deleted character who only appeared physically in two production ( Francis Martin in 1980 and Marc Gabriel in 1986 , in this last version we discovered that Roger-Roger was in reality an alien ) the song, or rather its theme, will be recycled in several subsequent versions .

The show also contains several unreleased and missing songs from the album that will never be reused !!

La serveuse et les clients

Jingle de Stella

Sex shops , cinéma porno

Les parents de Cristal

Le tango de l'amour et de la mort

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Claude Dubois (the original voice of Zéro Janvier) is the only one of the singers present on the album who did not reprise the role on stage, unfortunately it was because of his drug addiction, he took his revenge in 1989 when he replaced Richard Groulx on stage ( thanks to miss-starmania for the archive picture and additional information )

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Michel Berger abandons his role of Grand Gourou to Roddy Julienne without any explanation ?!

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In this version, in addition to randomly attacking wealthy people in the street, scratching their cars and raping girls in parking lots, les étoiles noires of 79 are a bit more extreme than in the other versions … Roger Roger specifies that the terrorists deliberately disconnected the oxygen ventilation of an entire neighborhood, killing all the residents ! This free murder will be deleted from other versions

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The name Johnnie Rockfort (a complicated pun to translate which can mean "strong rock'n'roll " or just the cheese of the same name ? ) is perhaps not a coincidence , the producer of the show Roland Hubert, not being convinced by Balavoine, completely unknown at the time, he fought (in vain) with Berger so that the role was offered to the rocker Johnny Halliday

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According to the memories of France Gall, during one of the performances a disgruntled spectator had fun whistling throughout the show exhausting Daniel Balavoine who patiently waited for the curtain call to jump into the audience to beat him up while he was still wearing his bulky costume ( the one below )

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France Gall speaks with emotion about the show (not subtitled) :

For more Starmania or to discover other French musicals I invite you to follow the path of my main masterlist to learn more about French musicals and their stories :

[karaoketracks]

La vie en rose by Diane Dufresne Custom Mix Backing Track