With a songbook dating back to the late 1940s, Raymond Lévesque is one of Quebec's most celebrated wordsmiths, revered as both a charismatic crooner of timeless chansons and a key player in the province's early-'70s sovereignty movement. His songs' comedic charm and casual, piano-bar spirit belie the politically charged atmosphere that spawned them, from the Algerian War-inspired "Quand les hommes vivront d'amour" to the FLQ crisis commentary “Bozo les culottes.” Lévesque's career was curtailed in the early '80s due to hearing issues, but his songs resound in Québécois culture.