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Hélène (song)

"Hélène"
Hélène (Roch Voisine single - cover art).jpg
Single by Roch Voisine
from the album Hélène
B-side "Ton Blues"
Released November 1989
Format CD single, CD maxi,
12" maxi
Recorded 1989
Genre Pop
Length 3:42
Label Ariola
Songwriter(s) Stéphane Lessard
Roch Voisine
Producer(s) Georges Mary
Roch Voisine singles chronology
"Hélène"
(1989)
"Pourtant"
(1990)
"Hélène"
(1989)
"Pourtant"
(1990)

"Hélène" is a 1989 pop song recorded by the Canadian singer Roch Voisine. It was the first single from his first studio album Hélène, and was released in November 1989. This song allowed the singer to launch his career and achieved great success in France.

The song was recorded at the Intercession studio. The guitars are played by Carl Katz, and the keyboards by Luc Gilbert.

The cover for the CD maxi used the same photograph as that of the album Hélène : Roch Voisine's face with a black background. The song is mainly in French-language, but contains a line in English as follows: "Hélène things you do / Make me crazy about you".

The music video features the singer and an air hostess who are in love, but who are forced to separate because of professional reasons. She may be French because when, in the video, she writes her name on a mirror with her lipstick, she does end it with an 'e' ('Helene'), as on the single cover. The model who plays the role of Hélène is Ariane Cordeau.

The song is also available on the Roch collection (2007), also known as Best of.

Voisine also recorded the song wholly in English as "Helen" and included this version on the English portion of his bilingual album Double in 1990 (which was in turn released separately as a full-length English album titled Roch Voisine the same year).

"Hélène" was also recorded in an acoustic version on his 2003 album Je te serai fidèle, which appeared as the second track on CD maxi for "Tant pis", released in February 2004. In 2013, he recorded a duet wersion with Coeur de Pirate, which features on his album Duophonique.


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