About Yvan Dufresne
Lived 1930 – 2016 (aged 85–86). Yvan Dufresne was a record producer.
Yvan Dufresne (1930 – 13 November 2016) was a Canadian manager and producer from Quebec.
Biography Yvan Dufresne was born in 1930 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, son to the tenor singer Georges Dufresne.
Dufresne studied double bass at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal then singing with Bernard Diamant. He sang lieder on the radio shows Radio-Bigoudis and Au bord de la rivière, and in some television shows. Tasked with finding Canadian talents, he recruited Michel Louvain in 1957, and within a few months made him a great star. In 1961, he launched the career of Donald Lautrec, of whom he would be the manager during the 1960s.
He died on 13 November 2016 in Montreal.
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