ON THIS DAY

January 20, 1941

Beloved Québec crooner and television personality Pierre Lalonde was born at Montréal. Lalonde began his singing career at age four and started releasing music in the early 1960s. Having mastered English during his studies in the United States as a teen, he achieved success in Canada and across the border, where he performed under the name Peter Martin. In 2011, he was awarded the Québec National Assembly’s

Medal of Honour.