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"Les deux aspects de Iris Robin": une pochette double avec textes dans les deux langues.

Le premier long-jeu, "Les deux aspects de Iris Robin", est sorti en 1962 et le second, "Avec toi... ", en 1964.

Pas d'avis de décès trouvé en français.

(Alma Pichette)

Vivacious Montreal chanteuse

Recorded bilingual double album

Montreal Gazette16 Nov 2007ALAN HUSTAK THE GAZETTE

Iris Robin, the vivacious Montreal chanteuse thought to have recorded the first bilingual double album in Canada in 1962, singing versions of each song in French and in English, died of cancer Wednesday at the Hôpital du Haut Richelieu in St. Jean sur Richelieu. She was 76.

“She was a big name on the club circuit at one time,” said journalist and singer Roger Sylvain, a longtime friend.

“She was important in the 1950s. She was beautiful, she was talented and people lined up to see her. But she didn’t pursue a career after she got married in the 1960s.”

Born Alma Pichette in Montreal on Jan. 27, 1931, she started out as a child star on French-language radio and changed her name to Iris Robin in the early 1950s when she moved on to some of the top night clubs in Canada and the United States.

She alternated with U.S. singer Buddy Greco at Chary’s in Miami Beach, Fla., sang in English for CBC radio in Toronto, and between 1954 and 1959 was a major headliner at Montreal’s fashionable El Morocco nightclub.

In the ’60s, she appeared at the Salle Bonaventure in the Queen Elizabeth Hotel.

She had a five-year recording contract with RCA Victor, but only recorded the one album and about a dozen singles. Among her signature tunes were Maman éteins la lumière, Paradiso and Copain, copain.

Her husband, Gaston Lupien, whom she married in 1966, died four years ago.

They had no children. In keeping with her wishes, there will be no funeral.

Télé-Radiomonde, 5 juin 1969