“We would have all liked to be your friend” writes the musician of the Fringent Cowboys Marie-Annick Lépine in her Facebook tribute to Dédé Fortin, the singer of the group Les Colocs who created the amazement and the sadness of all of Quebec by precipitating his departure on May 8, 2000, exactly 25 years ago.
The singer and musician remembered her meeting with André – dit Dédé – Fortin in April 2000, during the album release Motel Capri Freed cowboys.
“Dédé was present with Mara and Fred Fortin. We were really happy to meet them! The cowboys had to make the first parts of the roommates, in festivals, that summer … “, she recalls.
“The morning of May 8, 2000, I got up with The answering machine in the head. I sang my mother a bit. We were both crying and I told my mom: “To write a song like this, you have to feel very alone and sad”. A few hours later, we learned the appalling news, ”she notes, sharing a verse from this legendary song by Dédé Fortin.
“If I don’t want to go see you
You who dance like fire
-It’s not because I don’t like your stories
Ch’t’ a little jealous of seeing you happy “
André Fortin
The singer -songwriter specifies that we will be able to find her – in the company of her choir of the old Palais de l’Assomption – in the special program Hello roommates which will be broadcast at 9 p.m. Thursday evening on Télé-Québec.
Photo Les Archives Stevens Leblanc/Le Journal de Québec
“It is not easy to see and understand the distress of others. One of the best songwriters in the history of Quebec song spun us between our fingers. You were beautiful as a heart and intelligent, we would have all liked to be your friend, ”adds Marie-Annick Lépine who lost her lover and the father of her children, the singer of the Fringent Cowboys Karl Tremblay, on November 15, 2023.
