Philippe Tatartcheff is a Canadian

Canada

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 poet

Poet

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 and songwriter who grew up in Timmins

Timmins

Timmins is a city in northeastern Ontario, Canada on the Mattagami River. At the time of the Canada 2006 Census, Timmins' population was 42,997...

, Ontario

Ontario

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. His father, Dr. Michael Tatartcheff, was a physician and surgeon in Timmins, and his grandfather, Dr. Assen Tatartcheff, was a member of the Macedonian Liberation Front IMRE. In Switzerland, the family was from the Cantons of Geneva, Vaud, Neuchatel and Fribourg.

Philippe Tatartcheff is best known as the lyricist for French language

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 songs by folk duo Kate and Anna McGarrigle

Kate and Anna McGarrigle

Kate and Anna McGarrigle, were a pair of Canadian singer-songwriters from Quebec, who performed as a duo until Kate McGarrigle's death on January 18, 2010.-Profile:...

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His Song Texts, by the McGarrigles Album Year

with Anna McGarrigle

• 1975 - Complainte pour Ste-Catherine
• 1976 - Naufragée du Tendre
• 1980 - Mais quand tu danses
• 1980 - Excursion à Venise
• 1980 - Avant la guerre
• 1980 - À boire
• 1990 - Rainbow Ride
• 1996 - Arbre
• 1998 - Forever and the Same

with Kate McGarrigle

• 1978 - Side of Fries
• 1980 - Entre Lajeunesse et la sagesse
• 1980 - Cheminant à la ville
• 1980 - Prends ton manteau
• 2003 - Rose blanche

with both Kate and Anna McGarrigle

• 1978 - Pronto Monto
• 1996 - Hang Out Your Heart