If I would like to make the best compliment to the singer, it would be: he has his own style.
You hear him singing, and you do not even to know the song - it's Daniel Lavoie.
Bruno Pelletier
Poetry
2005 Nelligan
«Nelligan» - the symphonic opera - poetic tragedy about life and work of the Quebec poet Emile Nelligan (1879 - 1941)
Music - Andre Gagnon
Libretto - Michel Tremblay
Orchesrta - Gilles Ouellet
Artists: Orchestre symphonique de Montreal (dir. Jacques Lacombe)
Singers: Daniel Lavoie, Kathleen Fortin, Dominique Cote, Richard Seguin, Pierre Flynn, Sylvie Tremblay, Daniel Belanger
The abridged version of the original, included 23 songs instead of 35, was published in 2005. It was recorded with Montreal symphonic orchestra.
Daniel played elder Emile Nelligan.
http://www.radio-canada.ca/radio2/quoideneuf/15293.shtml