Jacques alphonse doucet biography

  • Jacques Alphonse Doucet, an Acadian originally from Grosses Coques, NS, says he grew up being told by some teachers that he spoke poor French.
  • Paroles & Musique met with Gabriel Louis Bernard Malenfant and Jacques Alphonse Doucet – better known as the voices of Radio Radio – to.
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    Welcome to the latest in our series of stories on the creative meetings of songwriting duos. Paroles & Musique met with Gabriel Louis Bernard Malenfant and Jacques Alphonse Doucet – better known as the voices of Radio Radio – to discuss the state of exile required to create their special brand of debonair, tongue-in-cheek rap.

    Even though it’s a cloudy Tuesday afternoon in a Mile End café in Montréal, the guys are dressed to the nines, as always. “For Jacques, it comes naturally, he dresses like that every day,” whispers Gabriel Malenfant in my ear while we wait to order, staring his bearded acolyte (who’s wearing a navy pinstripe suit with a butter-coloured shirt and tie). We didn’t ask if they dress that way on days when they isolate themselves from the outside world to work on new tracks.

    Whatever the case may be, Light the Sky is the latest result of such sessions. It’s the duo’s fifth album, but their first without the help of the longtime sidekick, DJ Alexandre, who

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    CBC News from Nova Scotia: “For musician Jacques Alphonse Doucet, rapping in his Acadian accent all part of making authentic music.”

    Frenchpeople may think the Québecois accent uncomfortable (a priest once told the late Roy Wright, “Ah, mon pauvre, on ne doit pas parler comme ça!”), but Doucet tells this anecdote:

    Jacques Alphonse Doucet was in high school when he was at a Burger King in Quebec and ran into a language problem.

    Doucet, who fryst vatten originally from the Clare, N.S., area, was trying to beställning in French. But there was a problem. With Doucet’s Acadian accent, the employee requested he speak English instead.

    “I couldn’t understand a word she was saying in English and she couldn’t understand anything in French, so it was just a weird situation,” said the 41-year-old.

    It wasn’t the only time during the trip that people asked him to speak English.

    “But by …

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    Radio Radio

    Radio Radio (IPA: /ʁaˈdjo ʁaˈdjo/) est grex Canadensismusicae rapianae tres socios habens: Alexandre Arthur Bilodeau, Gabriel Louis Bernard Malenfant et Jacques Alphonse Doucet. Nomen gregis radiophoniam honorat, quae secundum gregem "stimulat et liberat imaginationem, opposita televisioni quae eam dominatur."[1]

    Discographia

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    1. Forme elliptique — 3:30
    2. Rum Runner — 3:11
    3. Cliché hot — 3:45
    4. Jacuzzi — 3:04
    5. Vuca vuca — 4:18
    6. On représente — 4:05
    7. Lève tes mains — 4:42
    8. Bingo — 4:45
    9. Radio au carré — 5:43
    10. Baisse les lights — 4:15
    11. Jacuzzi Afterparty — 4:55
    1. Cargué dans ma chaise — 3:49
    2. Je savais pas mieux — 4:29
    3. 9 piece luggage set — 3:18
    4. Dekshoo — 3:26
    5. Guess What? — 4:25
    6. Enfant spécial — 4:05
    7. Tômtôm — 3:20
    8. Sur la galavante — 4:47
    9. St-Pétersbourg — 4:10
    10. Kenny G Non-Stop — 4:17
    11. Hayo — 4:45
    12. L′Épopée de Belmundo — 3:51

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    Notae

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