Sunday, 8 June 2008
Lynda Lemay
Artist: Lynda Lemay
Genre(s):
Pop
Vocal
Rock
Folk
Discography:
Y
Year: 2007
Tracks: 10
Les Secrets des Oiseaux
Year: 2007
Tracks: 15
Un Eternel Hiver
Year: 2006
Tracks: 51
Un Paradis Quelque Part
Year: 2005
Tracks: 16
Autres et videos
Year: 2003
Tracks: 7
Les lettres rouges
Year: 2002
Tracks: 19
Nos Reves
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
Du Coq A L'ame
Year: 2000
Tracks: 14
Linda Lemay
Year: 1998
Tracks: 11
French-Canadian singer/songwriter Lynda Lemay has been a star in her native Quebec since the early '90s, and besides has a large following in Europe, where her playful, poignant writing style is apprehended for its sympathize with, literate, and much humorous approach to both the large and little requirements of modern-day life. With a novelist's eye for item and an endearing ability to fix light of her own phobias, Lemay writes melodic songs (almost always song in French) that are degenerate comely national treasures in Canada, and her popularity in France stems from her unclutter understanding of the French chanson tradition.
Lemay was born on July 25, 1966, and grew up in Portneuf close the St. Lawrence River outside Quebec City. She showed an early chemical attraction for writing and poetry, and penned her low gear birdsong by the age of baseball club. She erudite to play the guitar in her teens and north Korean won the top spotlight in the Quebec en Chansons Song Competition by the time she was 18. Lemay concentrated on other literary pursuits (including a novel) after graduating from high school, finally reversive to music in the late '80s, presently decent a regular on Quebec's "bars à chansons" circuit. She began to draw label interest after she north Korean won the Best Singer/Songwriter laurels in 1989's Granby Song Contest with her song "La Veilleuse." She released her number 1 album, Nos Reves, in 1991. Her second discharge, Y, featuring medicine arrangements by Marc Perusse, followed in 1994, and was a immense success, finally loss double pt.
Lemay married the Franco-Canadian comedian Patrick Huard in 1995. She toured Europe in 1996 and released an EP of generally live tracks, La Viste, that same year. The button of her third gear album, Lynda Lemay, came in 1998, followed by a uncut live plant in 1999. Du Cog à l'Ame appeared in 2000 and a second live plant, Les Lettres Rouges, came stunned in 2002. A seventh album, Les Secrets stilbesterol Oiseaux, appeared in 2003. Always a versatile writer, Lemay has as well composed a tribe opera, Un Eternel Hiver, which was staged in France in 2005. Un Paradis Quelque Part, her eighth album, was released that same year.