Kevin Parent
{{Short description|Canadian musician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=July 2012}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1972|12|12}}
| birth_place =Greenfield Park, Quebec, Canada
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| years_active = 1993–present
| label = Audiogram
| website = {{URL|kevinparent.com}}
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Kevin Parent (born 12 December 1972) is a Canadian singer-songwriter from Quebec.{{cite book|author=Elaine Keillor|title=Music in Canada: Capturing Landscape and Diversity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P4rf9W02vv0C&pg=PT296|date=18 March 2008|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press – MQUP|isbn=978-0-7735-3391-2|page=296}} He is fluent in both English and French.
Early life
Although his first language is English,{{cite news | url=http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/arts/story.html?id=d6a04f78-1a68-407a-8fd2-473d57342e1f&k=33771 | accessdate=17 May 2009 | title=Comedy awards gala yields gales of groans instead of guffaws | first=Gaetan L. | last=Charlebois | newspaper=The Gazette (Montreal) | date=3 June 2007 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090406235813/http://www2.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/arts/story.html?id=d6a04f78-1a68-407a-8fd2-473d57342e1f&k=33771 | archivedate=6 April 2009 | df=dmy-all }} he was born in Greenfield Park, Quebec (now a borough of the city of Longueuil), and was raised and educated in the French-speaking area of Bay of Chaleur (Gaspé Peninsula) in the municipality of Nouvelle during his childhood and attended high school at the École Antoine-Bernard in Carleton-sur-Mer.
Career
In 1993, Parent participated in a songwriting competition, and was consequently signed to Tacca Musique shortly thereafter. His first album, "Pigeon d'argile" sold over 360,000 copies,{{cite magazine|author=Bettsy Powell|title=There's no place like home|magazine=Billboard|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TQ0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA58|date=1999|publisher=Nielsen Business Media, Inc.|page=58|issn=0006-2510}} making it one of the greatest Québécois album sales successes of the decade.
Hit singles "Nomade sedentaire", "Seigneur" and "Boomerang", made Parent become well known in Quebec music in the 1990s, winning a number of Felix Awards in the province and touring on both sides of the Atlantic. Two years later, Kevin released "Grand Parleur, Petit Faiseur", which also sold more than 350,000 copies and earned him the Felix Award for Rock Album of the Year in 1998. His follow-up albums, Les Vents ont changé (2001) and Retrouvailles (2003), which featured collaborations with Claire Pelletier, Catherine Durand, among others, both achieved multi-platinum status and earned him Juno Award nominations (including a win for the best selling Francophone album of 2002) and Felix Awards.{{citation needed|date=June 2022}}
Parent has also worked as an actor, with acting roles including in Jean-Marc Vallée's 2011 film Café de Flore and Sonia Boileau's 2019 film Rustic Oracle.{{citation needed|date=June 2022}} In 2015 he appeared in and narrated the documentary film L'Or du golfe.Suzanne Dansereau, "Quebec artists versus the oilpatch; Manifesto calls for ban on development". National Post, April 18, 2015.
He now lives in the town of Miguasha.{{cite news| url=http://www2.canoe.com/infos/societe/archives/2007/10/20071010-094205.html | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130119002429/http://www2.canoe.com/infos/societe/archives/2007/10/20071010-094205.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=19 January 2013 | title=À Pinel à cause de son béguin pour Kevin Parent | language=French | date=10 October 2007 | newspaper=Le Journal de Québec}} Miguasha is also the title of one album he published in 2009.{{citation needed|date=June 2022}}
Discography
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- 1995: Pigeon d'argile
- 1998: Grand parleur, petit faiseur
- 2001: Les vents ont changé
- 2003: Retrouvailles
- 2007: Fangless Wolf Facing Winter – English album
- 2009: Miguasha
- 2014: Face à l'ouest
- 2016: Kanji – English album
= Compilation =
- 2006: Kevin Parent Compilation
References
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- Kevin Parent discography: https://www.discogs.com/fr/artist/1132259-Kevin-Parent
External links
- {{official website|http://www.kevinparent.com/}}
- {{in lang|fr}} [http://www.qim.com/artistes/biographie.asp?artistid=88 Quebec Info Musique: Kevin Parent]
- {{in lang|fr}} [http://www.tqs.ca/showbiz/vedettes/KEVIN-PARENT-bio.html TQS: Kevin Parent profile]
- [http://www.canadianencyclopedia.ca/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0009114 The Canadian Encyclopedia: Kevin Parent]
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Category:Canadian rock singers
Category:Canadian male film actors
Category:Juno Award for Francophone Album of the Year winners
Category:People from Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine
Category:People from Longueuil
Category:Anglophone Quebec people
Category:Audiogram (label) artists
Category:French-language singers of Canada
Category:21st-century Canadian male singers