Daniel DeShaime

Daniel DeShaime

Daniel DeShaime, Cap-Chat, 2010
Background information
Birth name Jean-Marie Deschênes
Born (1946-08-02) 2 August 1946
Origin Saint-Octave-de-l'Avenir, Québec, Canada
Genres Pop music
Occupation(s) Author, composer, Singer
Years active 1965–present
Labels Trafic Music
Productions Guy Cloutier Inc.
Website Daniel DeShaime official site

Daniel DeShaime, born Jean-Marie Deschênes on 2 August 1946 in Saint-Octave-de-l'Avenir, Quebec is a francophone Canadian singer.

Biography

Daniel DeShaime was born in Saint-Octave-de-l'Avenir, a village founded in 1932 near the Monts Chic-Chocs mountains in Gaspésie and closed in 1971 by the government of Robert Bourassa. An author, composer and organist, he performed in Gaspésie, in the Magdalen Islands and New Brunswick before playing for artists including Édith Butler, Angèle Arsenault, and Jacques Michel.

1960s

In his childhood, Daniel DeShaime was known in his village for playing the accordion at dances and reunions. He studied classical studies at a seminary in Gaspé, then the Vincent d'Indy musical school and at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec. Then he travelled around Gaspésie, the Magdalen Islands and New Brunswick as an organist, pianist, performing for others and himself, singing poems he composed music for and songs from others like Claude Léveillée.

He was known in New Brunswick by playing the organ at the famous Père Galant Lobster-Diner of the St-Ann's room and in participating on radio and television shows of the Radio-Canada French network.

By the end of the sixties, he had accompanied artists like Danielle Oddera, Aimé Major, Raymond Breau, and Calixte Duguay, and had written and performed with Edith Butler and Angèle Arsenault, with whom he collaborated for many years.

1970

At the beginning of the seventies, he becomes the organist of the Menuet of Cap-Chat and at the Manor in Sainte-Anne-des-Monts. He also participates in a poetry tour organised be the Ministry of cultural affairs with Suzanne Paradis, Marie Laberge and Pierre Morency.

He performs on stage as a pianist for Édith Butler and Angèle Arsenault in all the French communities across Canada, in Europe and the United States and start writing for them and others like Denis Losier, Donat Lacroix, Calixte Duguay, Raymond Breau, Isabelle Aubret and Gérard Entremont.

He is the for a time the official arranger for the television show Chanson francophone of Radio-Canada in Moncton.

Following the closing of his village St-Octave-de-l'Avenir in 1971, he composes the song St-Octave-de-l'Avenir and sing it for the first time in public in 1976 at the folkloric festival organised on the site of what was once the village. This song and this moment will have a prominent effect throughout his career.

1980

After a year as the band leader for the television show Les Coqueluches and an incursion in theater as composer and pianist for the play 18 Ans et plus written by Jean Barbeau with Dorothée Berryman, Daniel DeShaime travels the province in 1982 as a pianist for John Littleton with George Angers and Claude Taillefer. He writes his first album C'est drôle comme la vie in 1983 with the label Trafic Music.

He participates to the arrangements and adapts in French the lyrics of Daniel Lavoie for the album Tension Attention. He'll spend many months with Daniel Lavoie in studio with first Jean-Jacques Bourdeau and later with John Eden, producer of the British version of Der Kommissar. His influence on the album and the use of uncommon instruments at the time like the Lynn Drum get him a reputation and invitations to participate in projects in England that he will decline, not wanting to be branded by a particular style.

Following the success of Tension Attention, he is sollicitated for many projects as an author, composer, arranger and producer. He worked with Belgazou, Louise Forestier, Marie-Claire Séguin, Michel Lalonde, Gérard Entremont, Gaston Mandeville, Marie Carmen and more.

He wrote and collaborated on the movies Anne Trister (Léa Pool) and Un zoo la nuit (Jean-Claude Lauzon.

In 1984, he wins with Daniel Lavoie the Félix award for Best Song of the year (Tension Attention).[1]

He also gave training courses in writing and became for many years the artistic director of the Festival international de la chanson de Granby.

In 1988, Daniel DeShaime publishes his second album Blanche Nuit including the song Un peu d'innocence for which he also won, in the same year, the Felix award for Best Author-Composer of the year.[2]

1990

In the nineties, Daniel DeShaime multiply collaborations with artists like Diane Dufresne, Mitsou, Mario Pelchat and Sylvie Bernard.

His third album Histoires d'hommes is published in 1991 and includes songs likes Je l'aime encore, winner of the Song of the year by SOCAN (ref) and Et mon cœur en prend plein la gueule later sang by Isabelle Boulay. In 1992 and 1993, he goes on tour around the province first under the ROSEQ organisation and then as a producer himself.

He composed for the inauguration of the newly restored Capitole de Québec in 1992, the music and the theme song.

In 1992, he is elected Vice-president of the SOCAN et keeps on giving formations in writing under the SOCAN's banner in Toronto for the Association of authors of Canada and at The Music Industry Weekend of Saskatoon (Ateliers Fransask'Art).

Around the same time, he takes the artistic direction of the Rencontres de la chanson de Régina and gives formations and a concert at the Rencontres de la chanson au Salon de Provence in France.

For his work with the French artists coming from outside of Québec, he is given the prize Cousins-Cousines for the personality from Québec who best understood the French communities of Canada.

While I was proud to receive this honor, I also asked myself why there was a prize dedicated to the sole fact that a french speaking personality from Québec " understood the french from Canada " even though we were the same and the pleasure of working together felt natural. But as a Gaspesian from Saint-Octave-de-l'Avenir, I was probably feeling as an outsider myself...
— Daniel DeShaime, Hommage à Angèle Arsenault

Daniel DeShaime also gives concerts, formations and act as the speakperson of the Rencontres internationales de la chanson au Mont Orford and at the Festival en chansons de Petite-Vallée.

In 1993, Isabelle Boulay wins the Truffe d'Or and a festival in Périgueux with the song Les canards (later named Il fallait pas). They work together to record her first album Fallait Pas, a selection of covers (Un peu d'innocence, T'es en amour, Qu'ils s'envolent, Et mon cœur en prend plein la gueule, Il fallait pas) and new songs (La Vie devant toi, J'enrage, Sur le tapis vert, Pour demain, pour hier, Un monde à refaire) all from Daniel DeShaime.

Passionate about computers, he creates for himself a software to manage his royalties. He is introduced by Daniel Lafrance (who becomes his associate) into the music publishing industry and creates Ze Publisher Inc.. By the end of 1996, he moves to France and officially comes back to Canada thirteen years later.

2000

Daniel Lavoie and Daniel DeShaime, 2006

Daniel DeShaime manages his company Ze Publisher in Paris while developping tools for music publishers. He acts as a consultant for the Chambre Syndicale des Éditeurs with SACEM and in the royalty management domain for SACEM, SOCAN and other Collection societies around the world.

He is recognised at the 2000 Gala of SOCAN for Un peu d'innocence and in 2006 for Fouquet's and Roule ta boule with Daniel Lavoie.

In 2006, asked by the owner of the castle Château du Rivau, he composes variations based on an old folkloric theme from France J'ai descendu dans mon jardin. The various themes can be heard while visiting the gardens of the castle.

In 2008, while in Québec, Daniel DeShaime gives his first concert in 15 years in the church of Saint-Octave-de-l'Avenir as part of a reunion of the inhabitants of the ancien village. After the concert, the management and the public named after him the concert hall of the church. By the end of 2009, he comes from France definitely.

In 2009, he starts writing in collaboration with the author Georges Guy and Réjean Bernier a book St-Octave-de-l'Avenir, 1932-1971... dedicated to the memory of the inhabitants of the village closed in 1971.

2010

In 2010, Daniel DeShaime gives a concert in Sainte-Anne-des-Monts and publishes as co-author and editor the book St-Octave-de-l'Avenir, 1932-1971.... He also announced the creation of the Fondation du Patrimoine de St-Octave-de-l'Avenir whose goal is to preserve the patrimonial nature of Saint-Octave-de-l'Avenir.

He also creates the Chœurs de Haute-Gaspésie composed of people of his region and for wich he work for specific projects.

At the summer 2012, he gives a concert for the 80th anniversary of the foundation of St-Octave-de-l'Avenir. Edith Butler participes as a guest.

For the festivities of the 2012 edition of the Fête des bois flottés of Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, he arranges Lisette, fais-moi un bouquet, a song from the Canadian Romancero.

In December 2012, he gives a concert in the church of Cap-Chat titled Daniel DeShaime et les Chœurs de Haute-Gaspésie chantent Noël (Daniel DeShaime and the Haute-Gaspésie choir sing Christmas) wich includes rearranged traditional Christmas songs and some new songs. Two years later, he'll reprise this concert under the name Les Noëls de mon enfance in Rimouski, Val-Brillant and Cap-Chat with voices from Haute-Gaspésie and from the Matapedia Valley. Lucie Gendron and Claud Michaud participate as special guests.

The non-profit organisation Village Grande-Nature in charge of the territory where Saint-Octave-de-l'Avenir was file for bankruptcy. With an associate, Daniel DeShaime tries to buy the village but the project doesn't work. The village will eventually be sold to Gérald Pelletier.

He is invited in 2013 as a speaker to the annual Conseil de la Culture of Gaspésie and to the Salon du Livre of Sayabec.

Daniel DeShaime produces in 2013 the song Le 31 de Février from lyrics written by Sylvain Rivière and music from Lawrence Lepage who died in December 2012.[3][4]

Still in 2013, Calixte Duguay who is preparing a compilation of his songs asks Daniel DeShaime to rearrange two of his most popular songs Pierre à Jean-Louis and Les Aboiteaux. Instead of recreating the tracks, Calixte Duguay used the ones given as is on his album (the music for Pierre à Jean-Louis, the music and the voice for Les Aboiteaux).

2014 marked the 125th birthday of the foundation of the municipality of Val-Brillant in the Matapédia Valley. The organisation responsible for the festivities asked Daniel DeShaime to write a song. He writes Une fleur dans la Vallée and the title became part of the town emblem.

In 2015, he self-produces two albums. The first one, St-Octave 2015 - Ailleurs c'est trop loin d'ici contains reprises and original songs including the title song with lyrics by Georges Guy and a rare recording of St-Octave-de-l'Avenir when it was first created in 1977. The album was presented on July 25 in Saint-Octave-de-l'Avenir where he received an hommage.

The second album En attendant Noël was presented in late December and includes 4 original songs and 3 traditional songs rearranged.

Discography

Studio albums

Songs written/produced and albums produced for other artists

Filmography

Musical Theater

Theater

Television

Books

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Felix Awards – Winners 1984".
  2. ↑ "Felix Awards – Winners 1988".
  3. ↑ "Lawrence Lepage 1931–2012 – Décès d'un artiste culte".
  4. ↑ "Le 31 de Février – Sylvain Rivière – Lawrence Lepage".
  5. ↑ "Félix award for Song of the year 1984".
  6. ↑ "Best Original Song 1988".
  7. ↑ "Félix award for Author-Composer of the year 1988".
  8. ↑ "Gala SOCAN 1993".

External links

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