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| '''Réginald Charles Gagnon''' (7 January 1949 – 29 May 2024), known professionally as '''Cayouche''', was a Canadian singer-songwriter of [[Acadians|Acadian]] descent. Born in [[Moncton]], he created [[Acadian French]] [[country music]]. | | '''Réginald Charles Gagnon''' (7 January 1949 – 29 May 2024), '''Cayouche''', was a Canadian singer-songwriter of [[Acadians|Acadian]] descent. Born in [[Moncton]], he created [[Acadian French]] [[country music]]. |
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| == Early life ==
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| == Career ==
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| Gagnon's performance [[moniker]] Cayouche stems from the US, where he says that people would tell him "You're not Acadian, you're Acayouche.". "Acayouche" later became "Cayouche."
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| Even before the release of his first album, a Radio-Canada team had noticed that Cayouche was already popular in the Acadian Peninsula. Even 25 years later, most people there know of Cayouche.<ref name="birth-cbcradio"/> His first album, ''Un Vieux Hippy,'' released in 1994'','' sold more than 15,000 copies in a fairly small market, and songs such as "La chaîne de mon Tracteur", "Export A" and "L'alcool au volant" became popular.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cayouche Un Vieux Hippy |url=https://www.plages.net/?c=album&id=59 |website=Plages |publisher=Plages Distribution |accessdate=1 April 2020}}</ref>
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| Cayouche maintained constant popularity throughout Canada and Europe, and is among the few popular Acadian artists in history to have sold over 100,000 albums.<ref>{{cite web |title="Old Hippy" singer Cayouche to perform in Abram-Village May 21 |url=http://www.rdeeipe.net/english/press-releases/cayouche-abram-village/ |website=RDEE |publisher=RDÉE Île-du-Prince-Édouard |accessdate=1 April 2020}}</ref>
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| Among his biggest hits are Export A, La chaine de mon tracteur, L’alcool au volant, Fume Fume, C’est ça mon Acadie and La reine du bingo. Gagnon, who later came to live in [[Maisonnette, New Brunswick|Maisonnette]] on the [[Acadian Peninsula]], was the subject of the documentary film "Cayouche, Le Temps d'une bière" or in English: "Cayouche : Time for a beer” by Maurice André Aubin in 2009.<ref>{{cite web |title="Old Hippy" singer Cayouche to perform in Abram-Village May 21 |url=http://www.rdeeipe.net/english/press-releases/cayouche-abram-village/ |website=RDEE |publisher=RDÉE Île-du-Prince-Édouard |accessdate=1 April 2020}}</ref>
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| == Personal life and death ==
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| Gagnon [[motorcycling|motorcycled]] as a hobby. One of his songs, "L'Alcool au volant" (Drinking and driving) was created to warn others of [[drunk driving]]; in 2008, Gagnon was stopped by a Codiac [[RCMP]] officer and arrested and shortly released afterwards.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Babstock |first1=Craig |title=Cayouche charged with drunk driving; Moncton-born Acadian singer to stand trial in November |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/422974818/C7788E91AA5C45C3PQ/17 |access-date=29 May 2024 |work=[[Times & Transcript]] |date=25 July 2008}}</ref> The following year, he received charges of [[Impaired driving in Canada|impaired driving]] and driving with [[blood alcohol content]] over the legal limit, receiving a $2,000 fine for the incident.<ref>{{cite news |title=Cayouche fined for driving offence; Crown withdraws impaired charges laid against Acadian singer |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/423013348/C7788E91AA5C45C3PQ/15 |access-date=29 May 2024 |work=[[Times & Transcript]] |date=16 April 2009}}</ref>
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| Gagnon died from cancer in Maisonnette, on 29 May 2024, at the age of 75.<ref name="radiocanada-death">{{Cite web |last=ICI.Radio-Canada.ca |date=29 May 2024 |title=Le « vieux hippy » Cayouche meurt à l’âge de 75 ans |url=https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2075924/cayouche-mort-acadie-country-albums |access-date=29 May 2024 |website=[[Radio-Canada]] |language=fr-ca}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Dufour |first=Melbourne |date=29 May 2024 |title=Le chanteur Cayouche n’est plus |url=https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2024/05/29/le-chanteur-cayouche-nest-plus |access-date=29 May 2024 |website=[[TVA Nouvelles]]}}</ref>
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| == Discography == | | == Discography == |
| * ''Un Vieux Hippy'' (1994) | | * ''Un Vieux Hippy'' (1994) |
| | ** ''Un Vieux Hippy'' |
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| * ''Moitié-moitié'' (1996) | | * ''Moitié-moitié'' (1996) |
| * ''Roule, roule'' (1999) | | * ''Roule, roule'' (1999) |
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| * [https://cayouche.ca/ Official website] | | * [https://cayouche.ca/ Official website] |
| * {{discogs artist|Cayouche}} | | * {{discogs artist|Cayouche}} |
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| [[Category:1949 births]]
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| [[Category:2024 deaths]]
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| [[Category:Musicians from Moncton]]
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| [[Category:Acadian musicians]]
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| [[Category:French-language singers of Canada]]
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| [[Category:Canadian country singer-songwriters]]
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| [[Category:Canadian expatriates in the United States]]
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| [[Category:Singers from New Brunswick]]
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| [[Category:People from Gloucester County, New Brunswick]]
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