Marie-Michèle Desrosiers (born March 6, 1950) is a

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pop and rock singer from

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."Marie-Michèle Desrosiers sous le choc"
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'', December 25, 2016. She is most noted as a former member of the influential rock group

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,"Beau Dommage to cut first album since 1978". ''

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'', May 28, 1994. and for her album ''Marie Michèle Desrosiers chante les classiques de Noël'', which won the

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for Francophone Album of the Year at the

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. Desrosiers studied piano at

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and acting at the

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before joining Beau Dommage as a singer and keyboardist."Desrosiers, Marie-Michèle"

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, July 17, 2007. She appeared on all of the band's four albums during its original run in the 1970s; on ', she received her first songwriting credit for "Le Coeur endormi". Following the band's breakup in the late 1970s, Desrosiers pursued a solo career, releasing her self-titled debut album in 1980. She released a second album, ''Plus fort'', in 1983 before participating in Beau Dommage's 1984 reunion concert. She followed up in 1985 with ''Aimer pour aimer'', and recorded vocals for

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, in November 1996."Sortie de l'album de Noël de Marie-Michèle Desrosiers"
''Bilan du siècle'' (

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). Her most commercially successful album, it sold over 100,000 copies in Quebec within just a few weeks of its release. In addition to the album's Juno Award win, it was a shortlisted finalist for Album of the Year, and Desrosiers for Female Singer of the Year, at the

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in 1997. In 2002, she followed up with ''Marie-Michèle Desrosiers chante Noël avec le choeur de l'Armée rouge'', an album recorded in

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with the Red Army Choir. Her other albums have included ''C'est ici que je veux vivre'' (2000), ''Mes mélodies du bonheur'' (2004) and ''Marie-Michèle se défrise'' (2008). She has had supporting roles in films, including

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'' and

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's '' Days of Darkness (L'Âge des ténèbres)''. More recently, she has continued to pursue a smaller-scale musical career, touring Quebec to perform Christmas music concerts with church and community choirs."Marie Michèle Desrosiers et le chœur Daveluy chantent Noël"
''La Nouvelle Union'', November 19, 2014.

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