Marie Carmen is the stage name of Marie-Carmen Aubut (born August 24, 1959), a

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pop singer and musical theatre actress born in Sainte-Foy,

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. Associated with the bands Accident, Blood et Marie and

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in the early 1980s, she subsequently became a backing vocalist for

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and The Box, and was later selected by Luc Plamondon to play the role of Marie-Jeanne in a revival of '' Starmania''. She subsequently released her debut album as a solo artist, ''Dans la peau'', in 1988. She has since released four more studio albums and a greatest hits compilation, and participated in another production of ''Starmania'' in 2000, this time in the role of Sadia. In the early 2000s, she retired from the music business to do humanitarian work in

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. She returned to

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in 2005 to perform several benefit concerts to raise money for development projects in Peru. In 2020, Carmen,

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announced the joint concert tour ''Pour une histoire d'un soir'', although the tour was delayed by the

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and instead launched in 2022. The tour won the

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for Variety or Reinterpretation Concert of the Year at the

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.Louis-Philippe Labrèche
"Les résultats du Premier Gala de l’ADISQ 2022"
''Le Canal Auditif'', November 2, 2022.

Discography

* ''Dans la peau'' (1988) * ''Miel et venin'' (1992) * ''L'Une'' (1995) * ''Déshabillez-moi'' (1996) * ''Les grands succès'' (1997) * ''L'Autre'' (1998) * ''Le Diamant'' (2008)

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Marie Carmen
1954 births Canadian musical theatre actresses French-language singers of Canada Musicians from Quebec City People from Sainte-Foy, Quebec City Living people French Quebecers Canadian women pop singers 20th-century Canadian women singers 21st-century Canadian women singers Félix Award winners {{Canada-singer-stub