The day before his childhood street in St. Vital was renamed in his honour, Ray St. Germain was fairly certain how he would react to the occasion.
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“Well, I’m going to start crying,” said the 83-year-old St. Germain, a Manitoban and Métis singer and guitarist who started his Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame career in 1956 with a performance of so skilful and precise that he came to be called “Winnipeg’s Elvis Presley.” In the nearly 70 years since, St.
Germain has carved out a singular career as a television host, radio impresario, voice actor and legend of country western music, earning membership to the Order of Manitoba and the Aboriginal Order of Canada. MIKE DEAL / FREE PRESS St. Michael Road will be known as Big Sky Country Way.
As a member of the travelling band of Hal Lone Pine, Betty Cody and Lenny Breau in the 1950s, St. Germain opened for the likes of Johnny Cash, George Jones, Johnny Horton and Porter Wagoner. His 1958 single was the first 45 RPM rock record produced locally to reach the national charts.
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