Diane Dufresne

Person · Open Library

Works

2

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Film & TV

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Diane Dufresne (born 30 September 1944) is a French Canadian singer and painter, and is known for singing a large repertoire of popular Quebec songs. Dufresne was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She lived in Paris from 1965 to 1967 where she studied voice with Jean Lumière and dramatic art with Françoise Rosay. While there, she performed in noted boîte à chansons such as l'Écluse, l'Échelle de…

Known for

• Le grand concert de la SuperFrancoFête — Self - Guest2024
• Le Grand spectacle de la Fête nationale du Québec 2020 — Self2020
• Deschampsons — Self2015
• Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui2014
• Ensemble pour Haïti — Self2010
• Diane Dufresne vous fait une scene — Self2005
• Tout le monde en parle — Self2004
• Belle et Bum — Self2003
• A Girl at the Window — Madame Hélary2002
• Le Grand spectacle de la Fête nationale dans la Capitale — Self1998

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

Québec

Active from

1944-09-30

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

15,444

Total plays

138,354

Diane Dufresne was born in a working class suburb of Montreal on September 30th 1944. Her mother died when she was 12 years old and she left school to take care of her brother and sister. Early on she had developed a taste for dressing up and performing, and a few years later a job as a nurse allowed her to pay for singing lessons. Her first professional engagement in a bar in the Montreal suburbs, where she sang standards by French and Quebec artists such as Ferré, Brel and Vigneault. <a href

via Last.fm · Diane Dufresne

Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Diane

Gender

female

Citizenship

Canada

Place of birth

Montreal

Instrument

voice

Official website

www.dianedufresne.com

Image

Sinequanone K.jpg

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