Catherine Major
Catherine Major (born February 18, 1980) is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter from Quebec. She is most noted for her 2011 album Le désert des solitudes, which was a Juno Award nominee for Francophone Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2012. Originally from Outremont, she studied piano in childhood.
Catherine Major
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- Name
- Catherine Major
- Born
- 18 February 1980
- Birthplace
- Outremont, Quebec, Canada
- Occupation
- Singer
- Nationality
- Canada
- Fields
- pop music
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She released her debut album Par-dessus bord, in 2004 and toured to support the album as an opening act for Richard Desjardins. In 2007 she composed music for Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette's film The Ring (Le Ring), for which she won the Jutra Award for Best Original Music at the 10th Jutra Awards. The following year she released her second album, Rose sang. Le désert des solitudes was released in 2011. In 2012, she received a second Jutra nomination for Best Original Music, for her work on Micheline Lanctôt's film For the Love of God (Pour l'amour de Dieu). Her fourth album, La maison du monde, followed in 2015. In 2019, she participated alongside Ginette Reno, Diane Dufresne, Céline Dion, Isabelle Boulay, Luce Dufault, Louise Forestier, Laurence Jalbert, Ariane Moffatt, Marie Denise Pelletier and Marie-Élaine Thibert in a supergroup recording of Renée Claude's "Tu trouveras la paix", as a charitable fundraiser for Alzheimer's disease research after Claude's diagnosis with Alzheimer's was announced. Later the same year she performed a show with the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, premiering several new songs from her forthcoming fifth album. The album, Carte mère, was released in 2020.
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The period of activity is recorded as 2010.
« Bunker à ciel ouvert »: Catherine Major et Jeff Moran en formule duo Major-Moran. Ils sont amoureux, parents et collaborateurs. Elle compose des musiques, il écrit des paroles.
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« Bunker à ciel ouvert »: Catherine Major et Jeff Moran en formule duo Major-Moran. Ils sont amoureux, parents et collaborateurs. Elle compose des musiques, il écrit des paroles.
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• Name — Catherine Major • Born — 18 February 1980 • Birthplace — Outremont, Quebec, Canada • Genre — Chanson, pop • Occupation — Singer • Instrument — Vocals • Years Active — 2010s-present
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Catherine Major, a musician, was born in 1980. The birth is recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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- 1.Élise Jetté, "Catherine Major within herself". Words and Music, May 15, 2020.
- 2.Nick Patch, "Quatre Québécois triomphent aux Juno". Métro, April 1, 2012.
- 3.Ralph Boncy, "Catherine Major: Par-dessus bord". Voir, March 4, 2004.
- 4.Luc Proulx, "Catherine Major: Rose sang". L'actualité, December 2, 2008.
- 5.Geneviève Bouchard, "Catherine Major : entre confiance et fébrilité". Le Soleil, September 10, 2011.
- 6.Charles-Henri Ramond, "Prix Jutra 2012: voilà les nominations". Films du Québec, January 31, 2012.
- 7.Daniel Lemay, "Catherine Major: Bien du monde dans la maison". La Presse, September 18, 2015.
- 8."La chanson pour Renée Claude en tête du palmarès iTunes Canada". Ici Radio-Canada, March 11, 2019.
- 9.Josianne Desloges, "Catherine Major et l'OSQ: le vertige de l'ivresse". Le Soleil, May 23, 2019.
- 10.Valérie Cloutier, "Carte mère, le cinquième album de Catherine Major". Ici Radio-Canada Quebec City, May 11, 2020.
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