Boule Noire

Boule Noire was the recording and performing pseudonym of Quebec music star George Thurston, an abandoned child who overcame his harsh beginnings to become an international recording success. While not widely known to English-speaking audiences, he was such a significant artist in his native French language that upon his death, he was referred to as "the Quebecois Stevie Wonder" by Quebec's Minister of Culture, an accolade that he truly deserved. George Thurston was abandoned at birth; thought to be the child of a U.S. baseball player, he was adopted and raised in a small tow...