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Originally Posted by BIMBAM
While the coverage is undoubtedly less as you say, I learned about Karl Tremblay passing from the English CBC website yesterday, and there is a second article about it on the website again today, so it is being covered. These two musical spheres are definitely real, but Les Cowboys Fringnants was definitely one of the Francophone bands even I sometimes listened to and new about as someone firmly entrenched on the Anglophone side of the musical divide, so they were at least somewhat known.
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I think they were so big that even many people who generally tune out francophone music at the very least couldn't help but know they existed.
Probably similar to Beau Dommage in the 70s which I think was a familiar name to many anglos in Montreal even if they didn't necessarily listen to them.
To be perfectly honest, even to many francophones Karl Tremblay wasn't really a household name, though he still was known to everyone as "le chanteur des Cowboys Fringants" so instantly recognizable by his picture and voice of course.
Note that the Vegas Golden Knights were in Montreal playing the Canadiens last night. Their social media account posted at least one obvious nod to the Cowboys (maybe more) during the course of the game. Not sure who was in on that and how they pulled it off as it was related to the action on the ice.