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Victor Courte Shares His Poetic World
Poets
and visual artists inspire each other, and music has inspired many
painters. Poets paint with words. Painters say it in colour, shape and
movement usually wordlessly. Admittedly, I usually seek the melody in
music rather than the words. However, recently, I was given a wonderful
opportunity to enjoy the poetic songs of Victor Courte and appreciate
the words.
Victor
started singing after a motorbike accident. He was not able to go to
work. He sat at home listening to the Radio. Then, he heard Leonard
Cohen and decided he also wants to write and sing songs. So he bought a
guitar and learnt how to play.
Victor
accepted my invitation to come the Mille Isles Community Hall, where I
have organized weekly painting sessions. He sang, while I took quick
sketches of him with his guitar and tried to capture the words of his
songs. Victor readily shares his music. In his song "Reflections", he
sings about growing up as a half French, half English Canadian. He
sings about the need for love, and about children of the world and their
problems. He sings poetry accompanied by the sound of a guitar. His
style is not exactly Folk music, nor Country. Victor does not care; he
rather likes not being classified. He just wants people to listen to
his songs, and sings only his own songs. His voice is warm and honestly
masculine, and he projects it well, hardly a need for a microphone.
What
impressed me most about Victor's music is that it made me listen to the
words. Words of hope: "when everything will be alright"...of
deliberation "I passed myself around...nobody even noticed"..."I just
can't seem to give up the fight and say it's over!" He sang of yearning
to be loved: “I used to think that love will never find me”…and of
finding love: "Your love is like the rain pouring down... You make it
easy to be me!”
This
was a beautiful experience. I was inspired and am really grateful to
Victor for sharing his poetic world. Victor has performed in Brownsburg
a while back, and may perform again in the Laurentians this year. He is
also planning to record his songs. Watch out for his next performance
in the pages of this paper.
Thank you Victor!
