Alice Robitaille (born February 3, 1923) was the first international star from Quebec, under the stage name Alys Robi. February 3 is the 34th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article describes the Canadian province. ... A stage name, or a screen name for movie stars, is a pseudonym used by performers and actors. ...

Biography

Born in 1923 in the Quebec neighbourhood of Saint-Sauveur, Alice Robitaille displayed talent for singing and acting at a very young age. She first performed on-stage at the Capitol Theater at 7. At the same epoch she already sang on-air with the CHRC radio station and was a real phenomenon with the whole city. 1923 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Motto: Don de Dieu feray valoir (Gift of God shall make prosper) Area: 547. ...

At 12 she moved to the Théâtre National, on Montreal's Rue Sainte-Catherine. Under the direction of Rose Ouellet, she learned acting and singing during a 75-week engagement. She continued her career in the Montreal cabarets, making radio appearances. For a time during the war, she also hosted a French radio show named Tambour battant ("Rumbling drum"). Touring Canadian military bases propelled her career across Canada. {{Canadian City/Disable Field={{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: Concordia Salus (Salvation through harmony) Ville de Montréal, Québec, Canada Location. ... Rue Sainte-Catherine, also called Sainte-Catherine Street in English, is the primary commercial artery of downtown Montreal. ... Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue - a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting around the tables (often dining or drinking) watching the performance. ...

During the 1940s, she started producing 78s and she became renowned way beyond Canada. She captured popular imagination with Latin rhythms like Besame Mucho and Tico tico. She sang in chic New York cabarets by the mid forties and in 1947, she travelled to England where she made an appearance on the first regular BBC program. Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s Years: 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 Events and trends Technology First nuclear bomb First cruise missile, the V1 flying bomb and the first ballistic missile, the... Manufacturers put records inside protective and decorative cardboard jackets and an inner paper sleeve to protect the grooves from dust and scratches. ... Latin American music, or the music of Latin America, is sometimes called Latin music. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki Official languages None Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Royal motto: Dieu et mon droit (French: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area  - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population  - Total (2001)  - Density Ranked 1st UK 49,138,831 377/km² Religion... The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was formed in 1927 by means of a royal charter from the Crown. ... Program or Programme can refer to: a computer program a radio program, a television program a collection of managed projects a 12-step program one of the short films in The Animatrix series. ...

In 1948, while traveling by car to Hollywood, a crash caused her career to come to a screeching halt. After a series of unfortunate diagnoses, she suffered a mental breakdown and was interned for several years in a Quebec City asylum. She was at some point subjected to a lobotomy against her will. In 1952, she was released. The same year, she came back on stage at the Casa Loma and the Montmartre, but her efforts were impeded by the French-Canadian taboos on mental problems and she never regained the popularity she had attained. 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... For other uses, see Hollywood (disambiguation) Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the City of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that runs from about Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to... Although not a medical term, the phrase nervous breakdown is often used by laymen to describe a sudden and acute attack of mental illness clinical depression, anxiety disorder, in a previously outwardly healthy person. ... Psychosurgery is the practice of performing surgery on the brain to treat or alleviate severe mental disease. ... 1952 - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... A taboo is a strong social prohibition (or ban) relating to any area of human activity or social custom declared as sacred and forbidden; breaking of the taboo is usually considered objectionable or abhorrent by society. ...

Discography

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Legacy

In the early 1990s, Alys returned into the public eye after the massive success she had with a song written for her by Alain Morisod. Books, theses, plays and television series were written about her. A movie was released in December 2004: Alys Robi: Ma vie en cinémascope ("Alys Robi: My life on Cinemascope"), entitled Bittersweet Memories in English. Events and trends Technology Explosive growth of the Internet; decrease in the cost of computers and other technology Reduction in size and cost of mobile phones leads to a massive surge in their popularity Year 2000 problem (commonly known as Y2K) Microsoft Windows operating system becomes virtually ubiquitous on IBM... A thesis (literally: position from the Greek θέσις) is an intellectual proposition. ... A play (noun) is a common literary form, usually consisting chiefly of dialog between characters, and usually intended for performance rather than reading. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar and one of seven Gregorian months with the length of 31 days. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Alice Robitaille has published two autobiographies: Ma Carrière, ma vie ("My career, my life", 1980) and Long Cri dans la nuit: Cinq Années à l'Asile ("Long cry in the night: five years in the asylum", 1990). Autobiography (from the Greek auton, self, bios, life and graphein, write) is biography, the writing of a life story, from the viewpoint of the subject. ...

Several of Robi's songs have been used for publicity. Sico, notably, played on the similarity between its brand name and the title of "Tico Tico" to produce a very catchy campaign based on a spoof of the song. This article is about brands in marketing. ...