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Stevie Wonder ((Castor music).)

By Frédéric Adrian. 2016

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Music biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

" Un panorama de toute la vie et la carrière de Stevie Wonder, avec un zoom sur les années porteuses…

d'albums considérés comme classiques . Un accent mis sur la musique, sans négliger pour autant la vie intime et les engagements politiques de l'artiste (lutte pour les droits civiques, contre l'apartheid...) . Un regard juste et critique, qui ne passe pas sous silence les côtés moins sympathiques de la personnalité (caprices de star, relations avec ses anciens collaborateurs...). " -- 4e de couv.

Stormy weather: the life of Lena Horne

By James Gavin. 2009

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Arts and entertainment, Biography, Actors biography, Music biography, Women biography, Lifestyle, Music
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

Biography of African American singer/actress Lena Horne, born in 1917 Brooklyn, who first performed at Harlem's Cotton Club at age…

sixteen. Interprets Horne's multiracial family background in the pre-civil rights era as the reason for emotional conflicts in both her personal and professional lives. Some strong language and some descriptions of sex. c2009.

Sir Ernest MacMillan: the importance of being Canadian

By Ezra Schabas. 1994

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Music biography, Canadian non-fiction
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille

A biography of the famous Canadian conductor, composer, and organist, Sir Ernest MacMillan. MacMillan conducted the Toronto Symphony Orchestra from…

1931-1956, and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir from 1942-1957. Schabas traces MacMillan's continued commitment to his country and music throughout his life. c1994.

Rien n'est grave dans les aigus (Collection "Documents" (Cherche midi éditeur)

By Michel Legrand, Stéphane Lerouge. 2013

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Music biography
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

Michel Legrand est l'un des compositeurs français les plus célèbres au monde. Pour la première fois, il se raconte. Avec…

humour, gravité et liberté. Entremêlant présent et passé, il réveille des souvenirs enfouis, des images intimes : l'enfance, la guerre, le Conservatoire, la révolution du be-bop, les débuts chez Philips, la Nouvelle Vague, Hollywood. Au détour du récit, des invités surgissent : Maurice Chevalier, Jacques Brel, Bill Evans, Jacques Demy, Louis Aragon, Françoise Sagan, Steve McQueen, Natalie Dessay... Tous prennent part au destin d'un créateur avide de musique au pluriel, dont l'identité doit autant à Bach, à Stravinski qu'à Dizzy Gillespie. Entre swing, lyrisme et comédie musicale, entrez dans l'univers d'un pulvérisateur de frontières, d'un monstre sacré qui a réussi, selon le mot de Malraux, à être plusieurs dans une même existence. 2013.

Randy Bachman: takin' care of business

By John Einarson, Randy Bachman. 2000

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Music biography, Canadian non-fiction, Music
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille

A biography of rock guitarist Randy Bachman, from his early days in Winnipeg, to his years with the Guess Who…

and BTO. A songwriter, producer, guitarist, and session player, Bachman has played an integral role in the evolution and growth of the Canadian music industry. Some strong language. 2000.

La sœur de: La Sur De...

By Jean-Yves Girard, Claudette Dion. 2017

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Music biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

Ce livre donne la parole à une femme authentique, sereine, pétillante et attachante qui sait son privilège de s'appeler Dion,…

tout en portant fièrement son prénom. Avec humour et tendresse, elle révèle ce que c'est que d'être la soeur de... Entre une mère très médiatisée et une petite soeur devenue mégastar, au milieu de treize frères et soeurs, Claudette a su trouver sa place au soleil. 2017.

Ginette Reno: biographie

By Michelle Chanonat. 2013

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Music biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

Ginette Reno est l'une des plus grandes chanteuses de toute l'histoire du Québec. C'est aussi la personnalité dont on a…

le plus parlé au cours des cinquante dernières années. Ses deux mille chansons, ses trente-huit albums et ses rôles au cinéma et à la télévision ont fait d'elle une véritable icône. Le légendaire Johny Carson l'a invitée sur son plateau en Californie, et Michel Drucker a fait de même à Paris. Elle aurait pu faire carrière aux États-Unis ou en France, mais c'est ici qu'elle a brillé de tous ses feux. Ginette Reno est l'artiste qui incarne le plus le Québec et on peut ainsi dire qu'elle fait partie de la famille. Elle a marqué notre époque grâce à des prestations inoubliables, comme son interprétation de la chanson de Jean-Pierre Ferland, Un peu plus haut, un peu plus loin, sur le mont Royal, à Montréal, en 1975 et avec Céline Dion sur les plaines d'Abraham, à Québec, en 2008. 2013.

Claude Dubois: biographie

By Gabrielle Lebeau. 2017

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Music biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

Cette biographie vous invite à la découverte du petit bum de la rue Sanguinet, fasciné par Anthony Quinn et le…

docteur Chénier, qui décide à sept ans d'être chanteur. Ces pages vous entraînent sous les néons de la polyvalente Gérard-Filion, où la créativité de l'adolescent se déploie, puis au Patriote, dont il devient le chansonnier attitré à dix-sept ans. A Paris avec ses chansonniers, à Los Angeles et ses couleurs psychédéliques, à Londres et ses Wailers, où le hippie aux cheveux longs vit, intense et libre, au rythme de ses rêves, mais longtemps déchiré entre partir et rester, révolte et amour, poésie et rock. Ce livre est un hymne au " réchappé " du Bas de la ville, au " Ti-Claude " du trucker, au Dubois de tous les Québécois. 2017.

Félix Leclerc, le roi heureux: biographie (Compact Ser. #No. 4)

By Jacques Bertin. 1987

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Music biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

Biographie de Félix Leclerc: sa vie, sa carrière. Pionnier chez nous, il fut avec Charles Trenet le premier auteur-compositeur-interprète en…

France. Premier écrivain québécois à vivre de sa plume, il fut le héraut de l'indépendance, le père de la nation pour un pays qui n'est pas né. 1987.

My life on earth & elsewhere

By R. Murray Schafer. 2012

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Music biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

A memoir by the internationally-acclaimed Canadian composer, music educator and writer R. Murray Schafer, traces the author's life and growth…

as an artist from his earliest memories to the present. Scenes from his youth as an aspiring painter, a music student at the University of Toronto and a sailor on a Great Lakes freighter give way to memories of his several years of work and wandering in Europe, where he gained a deeper understanding of his vocation, and found, especially in Greece, the inspiration for much of the astonishing music he would create after his return to Canada. 2012.

Lightfoot

By Nicholas Jennings. 2017

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Bestsellers (Non-fiction), Biography, Music biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

Takes us deep inside Gordon Lightfoot’s world, from his idyllic childhood in Orillia, the wild sixties, and his canoe trips…

into Canada’s North to his heady times atop the music world. Jennings explores the toll that success took on his personal life - including his troubled relationships, his battle with alcohol and his near-death experiences - and the extraordinary drive and tenacity that pulled him through it all. Rich in voices from fellow musicians, close friends, Lightfoot’s family and the singer’s own reminiscences, the biography tells the stories behind some of his best-known love songs, including “Beautiful” and “Song for a Winter’s Night,” as well as the infidelity and divorce that resulted in classics like “Sundown” and “If You Could Read My Mind.” Bestseller. 2017.

Le temps des seigneurs (Biographie)

By Dan Bigras. 2017

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Music biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

Avec 'Le Temps des seigneurs', Dan Bigras offre le récit cru, touchant et passionnant de ces vues sur le monde…

qui ont fait de lui le porte-parole des oubliés, des brisés. Façonné dans la violence et la douleur, mais aussi dans l'amour, c'est avec tendresse qu'il retrace le fil de son long chemin vers la réconciliation. 2017.

Le roman de Renée Martel

By Danielle Laurin. 2014

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Music biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

Renée Martel est l'une des grandes stars du Québec. Chantant depuis l'enfance avec son père, Marcel Martel, l'un des pionniers…

du western, elle s'impose dans les années 1960 comme icône de la pop avec les hits Liverpool et Je vais à Londres. Elle reviendra ensuite à ses racines country avec Un amour qui ne veut pas mourir et, en 1983, son album C'est mon histoire lui vaudra un premier Félix. Depuis, la cowgirl dorée accumule les récompenses les plus prestigieuses, et elle a été célébrée par un Félix hommage qui soulignait ses soixante ans de carrière en 2012. Derrière la star : la femme. Son courage et sa force, sa vulnérabilité et sa fragilité. Elle a mené plusieurs combats dans sa vie. Contre l'alcoolisme, la dépression, contre une grave maladie pulmonaire, un cancer du foie. À l'image du phénix qui renaît de ses cendres, Renée Martel porte sa vie à bout de bras. Comment, jusquà quel point sa sensibilité exacerbée fait d'elle l'artiste quelle est? La femme et la star, des vases communicants ou pas? C'est le point de départ du Roman de Renée Martel. 2014.

Franz Schubert: petit lexique amoureux (Classica)

By Philippe Cassard. 2008

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Music biography
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille
Le mystère schubertien intimement exploré à travers l'étude des lieder du compositeur viennois, par un de ses interprètes les plus reconnus, le pianiste Philippe Cassard. 2008.

Learning to fly: the autobiography

By Victoria Beckham. 2002

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Music biography, Women biography
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille
Since she was eight years old Victoria Beckham wanted to be a star. This autobiography covers her childhood, marriage and motherhood, the Spice Girls and her current career. c2002.

Jean Langlais: the man and his music (Amadeus Ser.)

By Ann Labounsky. 2000

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Music biography
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille

Authorized biography of blind twentieth-century organist/composer Jean Langlais (1907-1991) by organist/music scholar Labounsky. Discusses Langlais's training at France's National Institute…

for the Blind, his subsequent organist position at Paris's Sainte-Clotilde, his American tours, and his instrumental, choral, and vocal compositions. Some descriptions of sex. 2000.

In my own key: my life in love and music

By Liona Boyd. 1998

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Music biography, Women biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille

Boyd tells of her glamourous life as a world-renowned classical guitarist. She travels around the world and spends time with…

the leaders of the world's most powerful countries. She also has an affair with former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau before she finally settles down to enjoy married life. 1998.

Catch a wave: the rise, fall & redemption of the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson

By Peter Ames Carlin. 2006

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Music biography
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

Using first-person interviews and unreleased recording-session transcriptions, former People magazine writer analyzes the life of Beach Boys songwriter Brian Wilson.…

Describes the Wilson brothers' emotional abuse at the hands of their father, Brian's descent into depression, and his comeback with the 2004 album Smile. Some strong language. 2006.

Cigar box banjo: notes on music and life

By Paul Quarrington. 2010

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Music biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
Human-narrated audio, Human-transcribed braille

Paul Quarrington had a favourite recording as a kid: a boy fashions a banjo from a cigar box, sets off…

for a contest in the next town, and wins with a song that weaves in the sounds he hears along the way. As a grown-up writer and musician, Quarrington still loved the tale. And after he learned he had stage IV lung cancer, the story took on a whole new meaning for him. Cigar Box Banjo tracks a life lived in music and words. Some people with a terminal illness find mountains to climb; Quarrington decides to go out singing. 2010.

Ghost rider: travels on the healing road

By Neil Peart. 2002

Braille (Contracted), Electronic braille (Contracted), DAISY audio (CD), DAISY audio (Direct to player), DAISY audio (Zip)
Biography, Music biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
Human-narrated audio, Automated braille

After the deaths of his daughter and then his common-law wife, musician Neil Peart got on his motorcycle and drove…

for over a year, traveling Canada, the U.S. and Central America. The need to do something, to move, kept Neil going and pushed him toward healing. 2002.

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