“I am honored that I am still considered sufficiently Quebecois” – Daniel Lavoie

Installed in Europe for several years, Daniel Lavoie, who still shoots in Notre Dame de Parissaid he was honored Thursday morning during rehearsals for the Grand spectacle de la Fête nationale, which will take place Monday evening, to have been invited to participate in this umpteenth celebration of Saint-Jean-Baptiste.

The singer who returns to Quebec as often as possible to visit family has performed as well on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec as in Montreal over the course of his 55-year career.

“I am always honored to be invited, honored that I am still considered Quebecois enough to participate in the national holiday,” he said, specifying that he now resided in Paris, after having lived for some time in Italy .

The 75-year-old singer-songwriter will cover several of his hits on Monday evening at Maisonneuve Park, in addition to participating in a few group numbers.

“We never get tired of singing a song. It’s like saying, “are you tired of eating hot dogs”. It is, for me, something that I happily return to. A song that carried us and brought us fame that allowed us to live in this environment, it’s always a joy and when we feel that people like hearing it, it takes on another life. As if she didn’t belong to me,” underlined the singer who hopes to die on stage or at least continue to perform until he becomes incapacitated.

“I’m going to die on stage as much as possible. But if that doesn’t happen, unfortunately, it will be because I am no longer able to sing,” said the Franco-Manitoban singer.

Daniel Lavoie will release a new album in the fall, recorded at Abbey Road, which he describes as halfway between a musical audiobook of his book Finutility and a slam album.

“I took the texts that are read, with the strings, and it’s like a record, no slam, but almost,” he said.

The Great National Day Show, entitled A chance we havewill take place Monday evening at Maisonneuve Park and will be broadcast on TVA starting at 8:30 p.m., simultaneously on Cogeco Media music stations.