Natalie Choquette (born 1959) is a French Canadian

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Life

Choquette was born in

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. She grew up in

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. Choquette studied at Institut Saint-Dominique. She graduated from

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, and from

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, where she studied with Roland Richard. She has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Ottawa. She won four

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 ...

s, in classical music and has sold over 100,000 albums. Covering the following styles: Opera, Classical, Sacred Music, New Age as well as Popular. She has three daughters. She has performed all over the world. Choquette has recorded in over a dozen languages including Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Yiddish, Portuguese, Japanese, Greek and more; she also speaks several languages fluently including French, English, Spanish, Italian as well as functional German, Arabic and Russian. Since 2011 Choquette has performed as Mimi in ''La Diva Malbouffa'', a children's show which has toured in several hundred schools across Canada. The show was also presented in St Petersburg in the Russian language. In 2011, she appeared with the Belgian Royal Air Force Band.

Personal life

She is the mother of Florence Khoriaty, a singer known as Florence K,"Le dur apprentissage de Florence K"
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'', June 12, 2015. through her past relationship with the musician Hany Khoriaty. She is also the mother of Ariane and Éléonore born through a relationship with Eric Lagacé. She is a cousin of the politician

Jérôme Choquette Jérôme Choquette (; January 25, 1928 – September 1, 2017) was a lawyer and politician in Quebec, Canada. Choquette ran a private law practice, representing various claimants in a wide range of cases from his office on ''Avenue du Parc'', down ...

. Choquette is heavily involved in charity causes representing several prestigious organizations. She was the official spokesperson for La Fondation Québécoise du Cancer, helping the foundation raise over $30,000 for their cancer centres in Quebec. In the course of her duties, she appeared on several television shows featuring cooking and healthy eating habits with famed Quebec physician Dr. Marcel Béliveau and Swiss author (''Anticancer'') and cancer researcher Dr Servan Schreiber. Choquette is also associated with the Quebec chapter of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.

Discography

;CDs *''La Diva'' (1995) *''Diva II'' (1997) *''Diva Luna'' (1998) *''Le Noël de la Diva'' (2002) *''La Diva et Le Maestro'' (2002) *''Aeterna'' (2004) *''Aeterna Celesta'' (2006) *''Romantica'' (2007) *''Aterna - Romantica'' (2007) *''Terra Mia'' (2008) *''Lux Aeterna: La Trilogie'' (2008) *''Terra Bella'' (2009) *''La Diva Malbouffa'' (2011) ;DVDs *''Natalie Choquette: La Diva'' (2006)

References

External links

* *https://web.archive.org/web/20130130040736/http://www.caline.com/index.php?p=1_8_Natalie-Choquette *https://web.archive.org/web/20100121060813/http://www.quillsquotesandnotes.com/wr_natalie_choquette.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Choquette, Natalie Living people Canadian sopranos French-language singers of Canada Francophone Quebec people Université de Montréal alumni Félix Award winners New-age musicians 1959 births Singers from Tokyo 20th-century Canadian women singers 21st-century Canadian women singers