Catherine Major (born February 18, 1980) is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter from
Quebec
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. She is most noted for her 2011 album ''Le désert des solitudes'', which was a
Juno Award
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Juno Awards of 2012
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.
Originally from
Outremont
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, she studied piano in childhood. She released her debut album ''Par-dessus bord'', in 2004, and toured to support the album as an opening act for
Richard Desjardins
Richard Desjardins (born March 16, 1948) is a Québécois folk singer and film director.
Career
Desjardins and his friends formed the country rock ensemble Abbitibbi in the 1970s; Desjardins played piano, guitar, and sang. When the group disban ...
L'actualité
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'', December 2, 2008. In 2007 she composed music for
Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
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's film '' The Ring (Le Ring)'', for which she won the
Jutra Award
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. The following year she released her second album, ''Rose sang''.
''Le désert des solitudes'' was released in 2011. The following year she received a second Jutra nomination for Best Original Music, for her work on
Micheline Lanctôt
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Biography
Lanctôt was born in Frelighsburg, Quebec. Her post-secondary education was in music, fine arts, and theatre at École de musique ...
's film ''
For the Love of God
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(Pour l'amour de Dieu)''.
Her fourth album, ''La maison du monde'', followed in 2015.
In 2019, she participated alongside
Ginette Reno
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,
Diane Dufresne
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Dufresne was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She lived in Paris from 1965 to 1967 where s ...
,
Céline Dion
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,
Isabelle Boulay
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Biography
Born in Sainte-Félicité, Quebec, where her parents owned a restaurant, Boulay moved to the nearby city of Matane at the start of her adolescence, and studied litera ...
,
Luce Dufault
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,
Louise Forestier
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Biography
Born in Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada, Forestier was trained in acting at the National Theatre School in Montreal, but it was as a s ...
,
Laurence Jalbert
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Background
She began her career with the band Volt in 1985."Quebec singer's struggle pays off". '' Edmonton Jou ...
,
Ariane Moffatt
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,
Marie Denise Pelletier
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Biography
While studying literature and ...
and
Marie-Élaine Thibert
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in a
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recording of
Renée Claude
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's "Tu trouveras la paix", as a charitable fundraiser for
Alzheimer's disease
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research after Claude's diagnosis with Alzheimer's was announced. Later the same year she performed a show with the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, premiering several new songs from her forthcoming fifth album. The album, ''Carte mère'', was released in 2020.Valérie Cloutier "Carte mère, le cinquième album de Catherine Major"
Ici Radio-Canada
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