Klô Pelgag is the stage name of Chloé Pelletier-Gagnon (born March 13, 1990 in

Sainte-Anne-des-Monts Sainte-Anne-des-Monts () is a city in the Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine region of the province of Quebec in Canada. Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, a small city between the Chic-Choc Mountains and sea, is on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence river ...

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), a Canadian singer-songwriter from Quebec. Beginning her career in 2009 as a performer at various festivals and music contests in Quebec, she released her self-titled debut EP in 2012. Her full-length album ''L'Alchimie des monstres'' followed in 2013. She won the

Félix Award The Félix Award (french: Trophée Félix or Prix Félix) is an award, given by the ''Association du disque, de l'industrie du spectacle québécois'' (ADISQ) on an annual basis to artists working in the music and humor industry in the Canadian p ...

for New Artist of the Year in 2014. She was a shortlisted nominee for the

SOCAN Songwriting Prize The SOCAN Songwriting Prize, formerly known as the ECHO Songwriting Prize, is an annual competition recognizing the best in Canadian emerging music, both anglophone and francophone. Established in 2006, the competition was designed to recognize som ...

in 2014 for her song "La fièvre des fleurs", and ''L'Alchimie des monstres'' was a nominee for Francophone Album of the Year at the

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. In December 2014, she won the

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Breakout Award at the Francophone SOCAN Awards in Montreal. She released a new album in November 2016, ''L'étoile thoracique''. At the Gala de l'ADISQ in 2018, she won the

Prix Félix Prix was an American power pop band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1975 by Tommy Hoehn and Jon Tiven. The group ended up primarily as a studio project. Its recordings were produced by Tiven along with former Big Star member Chris Bell, who als ...

for Female Singer of the Year. Her 2020 album '' Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs'' was shortlisted for the 2021 Polaris Music Prize. Her brother, Mathieu David Gagnon, is a composer and arranger most noted for the instrumental music project

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, although he has also composed orchestral arrangements for Pelgag's albums.

Discography

*''Klô Pelgag'' (EP; 2012) *''L'Alchimie des monstres'' (album; 2013) *''L'Étoile thoracique'' (album; 2016) *'' Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs'' (album; 2020)

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