Jeanick Fournier is a Canadian singer from Saguenay,

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, most noted as the winner of the second season of '' Canada's Got Talent''. Fournier, who works as a

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attendant in Saguenay and is the adoptive mother of two children with

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, grew up in the small town of Dolbeau-Mistassini and later moved to the Saguenay borough of Chicoutimi in adulthood. She has performed in Quebec for a number of years, most notably in a Céline Dion tribute show. In 2012, Jeanick Fournier was approached to participate in the french show's second season '' The Voice: la plus belle voix''. She has been on tour since 2006 with a show entirely devoted to Celine Dion. Fournier is directly selected to be one of the 140 finalists. Having revealed her selection to the press, her audition was canceled the next day. In 2019, she also launched ''Cinq divas'', a show in which her Dion repertoire was supplemented with songs by Ginette Reno,

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and

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. She released the album ''Mes coups de cœur'', a collection of covers of some of her favourite songs which included one original song written by Fournier and Véronique Gagné, in 2015.

''Canada's Got Talent''

In her first ''Canada's Got Talent'' appearance, she auditioned with Dion's " I Surrender", and was given the golden buzzer by host

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. On her first day back at her job in palliative care after the appearance, she sang Dion's "

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" for one of her patients, attracting additional media attention when the patient's daughter uploaded a video of the performance to social media; a few days later, her first musical performance since the television appearance, at the Calypso club in the Saguenay borough of Jonquière, attracted a record audience, with fully 40 per cent of the patrons indicating that they had bought tickets to the show after seeing her ''Canada's Got Talent'' performance. In the semifinals she performed the song "Never Enough" from the film '' The Greatest Showman'', and in the finale she performed

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". She was announced the final winner, over dance troupe The Renegades in third place and singer-songwriter

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in second place.

Performances and results

Post-''Talent''

After her appearances on ''Canada's Got Talent'', Fournier signed with the record company

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. Her self-titled major label debut album was released in October 2022, and debuted at #13 on the

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.Luc Weil-Brenner
"Jeanick Fournier au sommet des ventes d’albums au Québec"
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'', October 19, 2022. The album includes duets with Ell on a cover of Faith Hill's song "Paris", and Maxime Landry on a cover of Daniel Balavoine's "Tous les cris, les S.O.S.", as well as "I Surrender" and songs first recorded by

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, Sam Brown,

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and Cyndi Lauper. In November 2022, it was confirmed that Fournier will be a competitor in the 2023 season of '' America's Got Talent: All-Stars''. In 2023, she participated in an all-star recording of

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", which was released as a charity single to benefit

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's Feel Out Loud campaign for youth mental health. Her second major-label album, ''Vivante'', is slated for release in May 2023.Cédric Bélanger
"Jeanick Fournier, gagnante de Canada's Got Talent 2022, lance déjà un deuxième album en mai"
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'', April 26, 2023.

Discography

Albums

Singles

References

External links

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