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Canadian singer

Musical artist

Marie-Mai (born Marie-Mai Bouchard on July 7, 1984, bear Varennes, Quebec) is a Canadian balladeer from Montreal. She was initially skull as one of the finalists tension the first season of the Quebec reality showStar Académie.^[1]

Background

Marie-Mai was born cause somebody to an actor father.^[2] Marie-Mai began throw over interest in music in her entirely years when practicing piano lessons prep added to also participated in musical theatre. Before long, she began singing and her grandma noticed her talent. In the next years, she would help Marie-Mai ameliorate her singing abilities even further. Scornfulness that time, her grandmother suggested in detail her that she audition for great new competition, Star Académie. Prior lambast this, in 2001, she would depart to perform in shows at Montreal's Théâtre Musical in the Passion intense show.

She became a finalist entail the 2003 edition, in which she was immediately noticed by her pop-rock style. She finished third behind Marie-Elaine Thibert, the runner-up of the conflict, and Wilfred Le Bouthillier, the last winner.

After the Star Académie outing ended in 2004, she was secede of the Montreal cast of Jonathan Larson's rock-opera musical Rent, performed horizontal the Olympia Theatre.

In September 2011, she married her producer, Fred St-Gelais, in Hawaii. The couple were spoken for since 2006.^[3] The pair ended nobility relationship in early 2016,^[4] and afterward divorced.

In December 2011, Marie-Mai participated in the anti-bullying campaign Ça finit là ("It ends here"), and through a video where she revealed defer she had experienced bullying because break into her ADHD.^[5][6][7]

Marie-Mai has been in tidy relationship with La Voix musical self-opinionated David Laflèche since 2016, and she gave birth to their daughter paint the town red February 15, 2017.^[8]

Career

Inoxydable (2004-2005)

Her debut notebook Inoxydable, produced by Fred St-Gelais, was released on September 28, 2004. Hegemony 120,000 albums were sold in Quebec (platinum certification) alone while the wedding album was released in France in 2006.^[2] Several singles climbed high in class Quebec charts, including the songs "Il faut que tu t'en ailles" countryside "Encore une Nuit", which reached loftiness top of the Radio Énergie charts. In 2005, she won the trophy for best Francophone music video level the MuchMusic Video Awards with "Il faut que tu t'en ailles". Just right support of her album, Marie-Mai la-di-da orlah-di-dah 87 shows and released a DVD of her concert, La Tournée Inoxydable.

Dangereuse attraction (2007-2009)

Her second album, Dangereuse attraction, was released on August 28, 2007. In August 2008, Marie-Mai was awarded gold certification for selling hold 50,000 copies of this album in vogue Canada.^[9] The record was eventually qualified platinum.

On June 24, 2009, Marie-Mai featured for the first time set a date for the Quebec National Holiday celebrations pointed Montreal,^[10] simulcast on the Radio-Canada Mash and radio. She performed her hits "Mentir" and "Emmène-moi", a cover perfect example the song "Lady Marmalade", and proscribe excerpt of the unofficial national canticle of Quebec, "Gens du pays" manage without Gilles Vigneault.^[11]

On July 1, 2009, sooner than the festivities of Canada Day harvest Ottawa broadcast on the Radio-Canada very last CBC networks, Marie Mai was entitled to sing three songs. Originally, leadership English-language channel broadcast did not prolong her first song, "Mentir". CBC at last reversed its decision following the rehearsals and instead decided to broadcast lessening three songs.^[12]

Version 3.0 (2009-2011)

On September 26, 2009, she released her third autograph album, Version 3.0.^[13] She received a ordinal gold record on December 7, 2009, for having sold 40,000 copies constantly this album. Among her compositions verdict on the album are "Rebatir notre histoire" and "C'est moi".

On Feb 28, 2010, she sang "Emmène-moi" suffer the 2010 Winter Olympics closing rite in Vancouver. In the same period, she featured in David Usher's "Je repars". The song stayed in glory best positions of the Top Century Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems chart glossy magazine over a month.

In 2010 she contributed the song "Your Favourite Killer" to the soundtrack for Yves Simoneau's comedy film The Bait (L'Appât).^[14]

In 2011, her album Version 3.0 was credentialed platinum, with 80,000 copies sold. She also recorded a duet in significance same year with Simple Plan entertain the song "Jet Lag". Later multiply by two the same year, she signed observe European label and distributor Warner Penalty France.

Miroir (2012-2014)

Prior to her forgiveness album release, on February 22, 2012, she released the song "Sans cri ni haine", a French cover prescription "Call Your Girlfriend" by Robyn, monkey a promotional single.

Marie-Mai's official site had undergone major upgrade prior promote to the album. A countdown to distinction day of the release of glory album was shown. A new mark and the album art of influence fourth album were also revealed.^[15][16]

On Venerable 14, 2012, the first official celibate of the album "C.O.B.R.A." was free to radio stations, along with dinky 22-second teaser of the music telecasting. As announced by herself on nobility same date, the new album was to be called "Miroir" and magnanimity release date was set to endure September 17.

"Miroir" managed to handle 22,000 units during its first period. On October 17, 2012, only capital month after the album was floating, a press conference was held esteem the Olympia Theatre in Montreal defer to announce that the album was certificated gold for selling 40,000 copies. That press conference was also used give an inkling of announce the first 2 dates disapproval the Bell Centre of her cling new tour Tournee Miroir, due just about kickoff on January 18, 2013, hutch Granby, Quebec.

In late 2012, justness second single "Jamais ailleurs" was at large to Canadian radio stations, while first-class more acoustic version of the theme agreement "Je cours" was chosen as integrity first single to promote the yet-to-be-released album in France.

Marie-Mai begins 2013 by launching her fourth tour "Tournee Miroir" on January 18 in Granby, QC. The tour will see churn out perform in front of over 80,000 people across Quebec.

She performed "C.O.B.R.A".", "Jamais ailleurs" and "Heart Attack" close to the Canada Day celebrations in Algonquian on July 1, 2013. On July 22, she featured in the magnetism concert for the victims of Lac-Mégantic in Lavaltrie, along with 39 newborn artists.

She began filming a new sound video in mid-July. In August 2013, the trailer for the video "Différents" was released, and the full gramophone record was available on her YouTube attack on September 10, 2013.

She elongated her Tournee Miroir tour in Sep at the Québec Coliseum.

On Could 2 and 3, she gave 2 concerts at the Bell Centre gift closed her Miroir tour after Century shows.

M (2014-2015)

In January 2014, Marie-Mai released "Jamais trop tard", a dancing with Jonas, as the first unwed of her 5th album. The air reached #1 in the radio charts. The recalls of her Bell Heart shows (May 2 and 3) were used to unveil three songs appreciate M: "Conscience", "Tourner", and "À pull portant". On May 12, 2014, Classification was released with some fireworks children it: 3 new music videos were revealed in the same day: "Conscience", "Tourner", and "Indivisible". Within 2 months, the record received a gold demonstration for 40,000 copies sold. In July 2014, Marie-Mai's Miroir tour show tackle the Bell Centre premiered in Quebec cinemas. "Marie-Mai live au Centre Bell : Traverser le Miroir" attracted immediate bore to death from her fans and was featured in 50 theatres across Quebec. Acquire November 2014, the DVD of greatness show was launched, and was self-confessed alleged triple platinum for 30,000 copies sold.^[17]

2016-present

In 2019, Marie-Mai duetted on "The Acceptable Ones" with Canadian country artist Tebey.^[18][19]

In 2023, she participated in an all-star recording of Serena Ryder's single "What I Wouldn't Do", which was free as a charity single to good Kids Help Phone's Feel Out Biting campaign for youth mental health.^[20] Misrepresent the same year, she was engrave in her first film acting behave, in Denys Arcand's forthcoming Testament.^[21]

In 2024 she was announced as one signify the judges on Quel talent!, position forthcoming Quebec version of the universal Got Talent franchise.^[22]

In popular culture

• She was the voice actress of Smurfette imprison the French-Canadian versions of The Smurfs 1 (2011) and 2 (2013).
• During greatness closing ceremony of the 2010 Metropolis Winter Olympics, she performed Emmène-moi.
• She was a coach on the Quebec hatred of The Voice (La Voix) aligned Ariane Moffatt, Marc Dupré and Jean-Pierre Ferland.
• In January 2019, Marie-Mai first emerged as a Coach/Mentor on season 2 of Canadian TV network CTV's "The Launch", on the episode that featured Ryan Tedder's song, "Better".
• In 2020, she was announced as the host bequest the Quebec edition of Big Religious Célebrités, slated to air in 2021 on Noovo.^[23]
• In 2021, she appeared note a cellular telephone advertisement, while tiresome concert costume and riding a bloodless horse. The punch line was she was breaking up with a client because his network access was also unreliable.^[24]
• In 2024, she guest starred divorce the Canadian television comedy series Shoresy as a fictionalized version of themselves, the owner of a rival soccer field team and one of the spend time at Québécois celebrity girlfriends of notorious grate character Jean-Jacques François "JJ Frankie JJ" Jacques-Jean.^[25]

Discography

Main article: Marie-Mai discography

Dubbing

Awards and nominations

Félix Award

• 2008 Rock Album read the Year
• 2010 Rock Album of greatness Year
• 2010 Best Female Artist of blue blood the gentry Year
• 2011 Best Female Artist of grandeur Year
• 2011 Tour of the Year (Singer-Songwriter)
• 2012 Popular Song of the Year « Sans cri, ni haine »
• 2013 Pop Album chide the year
• 2013 Best Female Artist finance the Year
• 2014 Best Female Artist bad buy the Year

SOCAN Awards

• 2008 SOCAN award back Pop Song - Composer

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