Gilles Vigneault (born 27 October 1928) is a Canadian poet, publisher, singer-songwriter, and Quebec nationalist and sovereigntist. Two of his songs are ...

Vigneault was born in 1928 in the remote fishing village of Natashquan on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River. His first record came out in 1962, at the dawn of Quebec’s Quiet Revolution.

Gilles Vigneault was born in the remote fishing village of Natashquan on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River. His first record came out in 1962, at the dawn of The Quiet Revolution.

Penned almost 50 years ago by songwriter Gilles Vigneault, Mon pays is a song of love and longing that became the anthem of the movement for Quebec independence. Now, in the wake of the stunning ...