At 61 and after forty years of shining on stages around the world, Bruno Pelletier has proven to his hometown that he still has the voice and charisma to dazzle audiences.
The legendary artist from Charlesbourg took the stage at the Capitole on Friday with a smile on his face, handing out covers of his 1997 album Miserere, to which his current tour is dedicated.
The one who embodied Gringoire in Notre-Dame-de-Paris wasted no time and put the audience in his pocket by offering them Aime, one of the classics from his album Miserere, with the same divine voice as there. is 27 years old.
Even though it wasn't the kind of night where admirers stood up and sang loudly, we sensed from the head movements and applause that Bruno Pelletier's voice and presence on stage was synonymous with “a good moment.”
The great singer and Juno Award winner Kim Richardson began her performance as the evening's headliner for the group Tears for Fears' rendition of Woman in Chains. His powerful voice and beautiful energy on stage accompanied Bruno Pelletier throughout the entire show.
The time of cathedrals
“Wait, it's coming,” the singer with the graying mane said to his fans at the beginning of the evening about the legendary Le temps des Cathedrals.
These words were anything but empty promises; Bruno Pelletier launched this track with the same passion and vocal crescendo as when he first played it on the 1997 album Notre-Dame-de-Paris. The audience seemed eager to sing along with their favorite, she who recited every word religiously as the singer pointed the microphone at them.
Nostalgia upon nostalgia
While lovers of Bruno Pelletiers nostalgically recalled his successes from the 1990s such as Ma vie, Coriace and J'oubli ma Folie, which were also performed with the same passion and vocal precision as on their debut, the star of the evening added their own touch of nostalgia.
During a medley with rock and metal influences from the years that formed Bruno Pelletier in his early days in the bars, all the musicians, even Kim Richardson, wore Black Sabbath, Möthley Crüe and Journey-style wigs; a moment that brought the crowd to its feet.
With two standing ovations – one before the break and one at the end of the evening – we can rightly say that Bruno Pelletier won over the audience in his hometown.
►The 25th anniversary tour of his album Miserere will also return to Quebec on November 1st and 2nd and perform at the Théâtre Maisonneuve in Montreal on March 2nd.