Acadian singer Mario LeBlanc, better known as “Fayo”, died Monday morning at the age of 47.
Born in Dieppe, New Brunswick, the Acadian folk-rock singer-songwriter had lived on Prince Edward Island for around twenty years.
Son premier album Bean fever released in the early 2000s made him known and left his mark on Acadian music.
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Mario “Fayo” LeBlanc. on a shore in Summerside, Prince Edward Island where he resides. (Archive photo)
Photo : Radio-Canada / Ivanoh Demers
For Jac Gautreau, a musician who worked with Fayo on two of his albums, the news of his death comes as a shock. According to him, Fayo’s songs like My Summer or Fricot Song are part Acadian musical vocabulary, folklore almost
.
It’s one of the things I’ve done that I’m most proud of because he had an integrity and a simplicity in his way of wanting to express himself that resonated with people.
continues the artist.
Jac Gautreau believes that Mario Fitness
LeBlanc contributed to modern Acadian folklore
like the 1755 group.
With information from Ghislain Couture and Babatundé Taste it