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“Nothing better baby,” said DeYoung, in a phone interview Friday morning from his home in Chicago. “I’m going to be 73 by the time I get to Montreal next year (for a sold-out concert at Théâtre St. Denis on May 2) and I can’t believe it. You never ever banked on this happening in your life. You start this as a young man and you think it’s finite and there’s a time limit on it. This is not false humility. I shake my head and say ‘how did this happen?’ Tell the kids they did a beautiful job. It brought a tear to my eye and I thought ‘look at the joy here’. This is the magic of music. Music is magic. Nobody can figure out why it does what it does to human beings. But there is no other art form greater than music.”

DeYoung liked the video of Les Petits Chanteurs de Laval so much that he posted it on his Facebook account with the following message: