During a gathering that brought together several thousand people at L’Assomption on Thursday evening, Cowboys Fringants guitarist Jean-François Pauzé and Karl Tremblay’s wife, Marie-Annick Lépine, addressed the crowd.
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With moving voices, they wanted to thank the group’s admirers, who were numerous in Quebec and throughout the French-speaking world to show their support and pay tribute to the singer.
“Thank you very much on behalf of Karl,” says guitarist Jean-François Pauzé. He was an extremely humble and humble person. He never had a big head. I think he would be the first to be surprised by all the love that we feel here tonight and that we have seen sprouting since yesterday throughout Quebec and the French-speaking world.
“I think that would be too much for him,” he continues. Even us in the band are a little overwhelmed by it all. It is very nice. That touches us very much.”
For her part, Marie-Annick Lépine, Karl Tremblay’s wife and violinist in the group, remembered what kind of person Karl Tremblay was.
“My husband, Karl Tremblay, our great Karl Tremblay, was a person of extreme kindness,” she said. He was someone who thought of others, who was always in a good mood. He was good to us, to his Cowboys family, to me, to his daughters, to his parents. He had good relationships with everyone because he was an exceptional person.”
“The Cowboys, we have lived in L’Assomption for several years, I am a local,” she adds. Karl would like to be buried here in his final wishes because these were his best years at L’Assomption.”
She also stated that she had composed a Christmas carol for a group of choristers she teaches, the profits of which she would like to donate to research into a cancer treatment.
“The last tear he shed for beauty was for his wife, for me,” she said. Because on Monday evening, while he was in great pain, I played him the song I had composed. Karl was crying and I asked him why. He told me it was because it was the most beautiful Christmas song he had heard in his life.
They left the stage in the public square of L’Assomption to the generous applause of the crowd in attendance.
Watch her living testimony in full in the video above