Jordan Lévesque Returns to Baie-Comeau After Performing With Céline Dion
Jordan Lévesque returned to Baie-Comeau on Friday following his stint as a backing vocalist for Céline Dion during her Paris comeback concerts.
After a two-year absence from his home region, the singer joined the interactive show C’est quoi ta toune?, directed by Joël Legendre, according to ici.radio-canada.ca. He told the outlet that the crowd’s reaction caught him by surprise when audience members stood up to cheer and applaud at the start of the performance.
“It was completely magical, I’m still on a cloud. I received a welcome like I didn’t expect to receive. Right from the start of the show, we had tears in our eyes because it hit us so hard,” Lévesque told ici.radio-canada.ca the day after the show.
He attributed the reception to his summer performances at Paris’s Plenitude Arena, where he sang the duet J’irai où tu iras alongside Dion.
“I think it’s the fact of having seen a little guy from Baie-Comeau perform in Paris, with the icon that Céline Dion represents,” Lévesque said, as reported by ici.radio-canada.ca. “That seems to have marked a lot of people in the region.”
Describing the collaboration as the pinnacle of his career, Lévesque said that working with the headliner offered a unique vantage point.
“In my head, nobody matches Céline. Nobody equals this prestige, the scale of this project. I felt like a spectator every night, I had the best seats for all the performances, it’s a huge privilege,” he told ici.radio-canada.ca.
He highlighted Dion’s work ethic during sound checks and rehearsals with her 15 musicians, observing that she approaches practice with the same focus she brings to sold-out venues.
Next on Lévesque’s schedule are appearances in the Québec Issime show Décembre and the neo-country tribute tour Northern Trails. Regarding whether he will rejoin Dion for her newly announced series of 10 additional concerts in Paris next May, he told ici.radio-canada.ca that he has not yet signed anything and declined to speculate.