Yvon Krevé | |
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Birth name | Henry Green-Dupré |
Also known as | Von Von le Vet |
Born | Enoch, Alberta, Canada |
Genres | Hip hop |
Henry Green-Dupré, known by his stage names of Yvon Krevé and Von Von le Vet, is a French Canadian hip hop artist of Haitian origin. [1] [2] Krevé was rose to notice following collaborations with the duo Sans Pression. [3] His 2000 debut, L'accent grave, topped the Quebec sales charts and was nominated for an ADISQ hip-hop award in 2001, and won best francophone album at the Canadian Music Awards. [4] and in 2009 was described in the newspaper La Presse as one of the five albums that had defined Quebec rap. [3] A single from that album, "Yvon Krevé", reached number one on the countdown programme for Canada's leading francophone music video channel ( Décompte MusiquePlus). [4] The name is a play on words: while Yvon is a not-uncommon first name, it matches the informal Quebec French pronunciation of ils vont (they will). Thus the full name sounds like ils vont crever, or "they will die".