Culture and Communications Minister Mathieu Lacombe believes the Cowboys Fringants group is the largest in Quebec history.
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At least that’s what he said in an interview with Pierre-Olivier Zappa a few minutes before the honoring ceremony for Karl Tremblay.
In view of the group’s many fans from the provinces, but also from overseas, who traveled to the event, the moderator expressed the following reflection:
“We heard the comment that if there was an emblem of Quebec culture, Karl Tremblay embodied it,” emphasizes Pierre-Olivier Zappa.
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The Minister for Culture and Communications agreed.
“I have to be careful between my role as a minister and the 35-year-old young man that I am, who grew up with the Cowboys Fringants, but I agree with this because Karl Tremblay is the voice of the Cowboys Fringants, a group that 25 years after its creation is at the peak of its popularity. They marked [plus] a generation. I think that, weighing my words, makes them probably the most important group in the history of Quebec,” the minister says.
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