Pierre Lalonde, a singer and one of the few truly bilingual TV personalities in Quebec history, has died. He was 75.
The news was announced just after noon on Wednesday in a brief press release by his agency. It does not say how he died, but he had been suffering from Parkinson’s disease.
The official obituary notice is posted here.
Lalonde hosted series like Jeunesse d’Aujourd’hui, but anglophones might remember him more for his English series like Mad Dash and the Telethon of Stars. As part of its 50th anniversary in 2011, CFCF-12 posted a full episode of the Pierre Lalonde Show on its website.
Coverage from TVA Nouvelles, The Globe and Mail, CTV Montreal, La Presse and TC Media. The Gazette has a gallery of photos of Lalonde and his family.
The Journal de Montréal compiles reaction from the artistic community.
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