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Les Colocs

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Les Colocs (The Room-mates) were a rock music group from Québec formed in 1990 in Montreal. [1]

34 relations: Album, AllMusic, Alternative rock, Élage Diouf, Blues, BMG Music Canada, Brass instrument, CKOI-FM, Compilation album, Country music, Cree, Dédé Fortin, Diouf, Discogs, HIV/AIDS, Joel Zifkin, List of bands from Canada, Montreal, Multiculturalism, Music of Africa, Music of Quebec, Music of Senegal, Northern Catalonia, Patrick Esposito Di Napoli, Quebec, Quebec referendum, 1995, Quebec sovereignty movement, Rock music, Rock music of Canada, Saskatchewan, Senegal, Serge Robert, Swing music, Swing revival.

Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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Élage Diouf

Élage Diouf (born El Hadji Fall Diouf) is a Senegalese-born musician, percussionnist, singer and songwriter who lives in Quebec.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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BMG Music Canada

BMG Music Canada was the Canadian division of BMG, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Brass instrument

A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of the player's lips.

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CKOI-FM

CKOI-FM is a French-language Canadian radio station located in Montreal, Quebec, airing a Contemporary Hits radio format.

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Compilation album

A compilation album comprises tracks, either previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers.

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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Cree

The Cree (script; Cri) are one of the largest groups of First Nations in North America, with over 200,000 members living in Canada.

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Dédé Fortin

André "Dédé" Fortin (17 November 1962 – 8 May 2000) was a founding member, frontman, and vocalist of the Québécois band Les Colocs, formed in 1990.

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Diouf

Diouf, (French spelling in Senegal) or "Joof" (English spelling in The Gambia) is a Serer surname carried by several personalities: People.

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Discogs

Discogs (short for discographies) is a website and crowdsourced database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases.

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HIV/AIDS

Human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) is a spectrum of conditions caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).

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Joel Zifkin

Joel Zifkin is a Canadian musician and songwriter born in Montreal on April 14, 1954.

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List of bands from Canada

This is a list of bands from Canada.

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Montreal

Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.

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Multiculturalism

Multiculturalism is a term with a range of meanings in the contexts of sociology, political philosophy, and in colloquial use.

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Music of Africa

The traditional music of Africa, given the vastness of the continent, is historically ancient, rich and diverse, with different regions and nations of Africa having many distinct musical traditions.

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Music of Quebec

Because it is a modern cosmopolitan society, in the present day all types of music can be found in the Canadian province of Quebec.

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Music of Senegal

Senegal's music is best known abroad due to the popularity of mbalax, a development of Serer sabar drumming popularized by Youssou N'Dour.

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Northern Catalonia

Northern Catalonia (Catalunya del Nord, also known as Catalunya Nord Catalogne Nord), French Catalonia or Roussillon refers to the Catalan-speaking and Catalan-culture territory ceded to France by Spain through the signing of the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659 in exchange of France's effective renunciation on the formal protection given to the recent founded Catalan Republic.

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Patrick Esposito Di Napoli

Patrick Esposito Di Napoli (January 18, 1964 – November 13, 1994) was a musician and member of the Quebec musical band Les Colocs, for which he played harmonica.

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Quebec

Quebec (Québec)According to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in English; the name is.

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Quebec referendum, 1995

The 1995 Quebec independence referendum was the second referendum to ask voters in the Canadian French-speaking province of Quebec whether Quebec should proclaim national sovereignty and become an independent country, with the condition precedent of offering a political and economic agreement to Canada.

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Quebec sovereignty movement

The Quebec sovereignty movement (Mouvement souverainiste du Québec) is a political movement as well as an ideology of values, concepts and ideas that advocates independence for the Canadian province of Quebec.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Rock music of Canada

Rock music of Canada is a wide and diverse part of the general music of Canada, beginning with American and British style rock and roll in the mid-20th century.

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Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan is a prairie and boreal province in western Canada, the only province without natural borders.

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Senegal

Senegal (Sénégal), officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country in West Africa.

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Serge Robert

Mononc' Serge (real name Serge Robert) is a Quebec musician and poet who sings in French.

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Swing music

Swing music, or simply swing, is a form of popular music developed in the United States that dominated in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Swing revival

The swing revival, also called retro swing and neo-swing, was a renewed interest in swing music, beginning in the 1990s.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Colocs

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