Julie Arel

Julie Arel is a Chanteuse (auteure, compositrice and interpret) born with Quebec in 1947.

Biography

Julie Arel begins young person in the Québécois entertainment world. She is not twenty years old, in 1967, when she launches out in the trade, while passing initially by the hard school of the cabarets for then undertaking the interminable rounds in the large hotels of the Quebec, and that in order to make known itself of more many people. The singer will have this chance later two years, in 1969, in particular thanks to the organizer Jacques Normand which accepts the candidature of the young lady who wishes to take part in the contest of songs of the emission " The curtain ouvre". Helped by her talent and her determination, Julie Arel takes down finally the palm of gold of the emission, which enables him to be from now on more present than before on television. On scene, it continues to give many recitals, and it also takes part in the review " Frissons" of Muriel Millard. It is however long in being made known on disc and its first 45 turns, appeared at Polydor in 1971 and entitled " The time of aimer" , passes practically unperceived. Moreover, in 1972, the singer, who lives with a musician of her orchestra, is found pregnant. Happy to have Justine, her daughter, but being found only to raise it, it takes again during one year the way of the piano-bars in order to gain its crust.

The year 1973 will be the year awaited so much for Julie Arel, the year of the second breath, the pivotal year too. It takes part initially in the Festival of Athens where it gains the great honors with its first real success, the splendid song " Kamouraska" of Michel Tells, song based on the film " Kamouraska" according to the work of Anne Hébert. Proud of this price, Julie Arel made on her return to the Quebec the meeting of Diane Juster, then young unknown auteure-compositrice of the public. Juster thus proposes several songs with Julie Arel, who accepts them and records them to include them with its first album. This last, which is entitled simply " Julie Arel" , with the autumn 1973 appears finally and comprises the following titles, all resulting from the feather of Diane Juster: " Sun, soleil" , " What arrives to me? " , " To like for vivre" , " From now on God me aidera" and " When you partiras". Julie sings also Eddy Marnay (" Sun which danse") and Julien Clerc (" It is not rien"), and the songs " It is too facile" and " Better than personne" are also of good radiophonic successes for the singer with the major, powerful and moderate voice.

In 1974, Julie Arel starts a long round with the Quebec and goes up on the scene of the Place of Arts of Montreal, then sings in several cities of the Canada, and goes to the Festival of Spa in Belgium in order to represent the Société Radio-Canada there. Two years later, in 1976, it is again member elect of a first price to the International festival of the Orphée song of gold with Sofia, in Bulgaria. This year, Julie Arel signs a contract with the recording company Capitol and it launches back-to-back three albums which are a very good popular success. She works then with Claude Léveillée which signs the song " to him; Thank you with toi" , Luc Plamondon which writes " to him; To live large a amour" and Yves Lapierre which composes two titles to him: " The afternoon " and " In your auto". She sings also Jacques Michel (" For toi") and Beautiful Marie-Paule (" Wolfgang and moi"), then interprets Barbra Streisand in French (" Dreams in rêveries" and " With us deux" , two songs of the film " With Star is Born"). Between 1976 and 1979, its principal successes on disc are " It is bon" , " When you are là" , " Fortunately that I aime" , " With you my amour" , " Us, your father and moi" , " Your love fou" , " If you you me aimes" , " My sun with moi" , " One always finishes by rejoindre" and disco music " tubes it; When one is amoureux".

The arrival of the Eighties brings change in the life like in the career of Julie Arel. After the launching of two compilations in 1981 and 1982, the singer is withdrawn during two years, and the Québécois artistic medium believes that she forsook the trade for good, without however knowing why. Then, in 1984, it remakes surface with an album entirely written and composed by itself and entitled " Darkness with the lumière". Julie Arel takes everyone by surprise then! The album entirely consists of songs of religious inspiration and Julie affirms itself that after having taken stock on its life and after intense and long personal advance, its career from now on will be tinted of spirituality. She thus puts herself to sing God, Jesus and the Bible, as well as the universal and fraternal love (" Nothing is more important than a ami"), but the media make fun of it, and one goes even until treating it " Jesus Freak" , which causes that the singer loses the major part of her public of origin. Boycotted by television and the radio, Julie Arel must find another way of presenting her new songs to the general public. She thus decides to occur itself, and launches many years later of the collections of hymns which she sells at the time of her recitals in the churches. Its many rounds will bring it until in Florida to the year 2000 and it records even some English titles of which the song " Listen to the silence" who proves well that Julie did not lose anything of her beautiful and powerful voice. Whereas it is said, the interpreter of " Kamouraska" will never return, and the news Julie Arel seems happy in this lifestyle choice. It any more but does not remain to hope now than the house Capitol decides to republish out of CD successes of the artist, which is still not made to date (September 2006)…

Discography - Albums

  • 1973 : Julie Arel (Fleur Discs)

  • 1976: Thank you with you (Capitol)
  • 1977: I love us (Capitol)
  • 1978: With you my love (Capitol)
  • 1981: Greatest successes of Julie Arel (Chris Records)
  • 1982: My more beautiful songs (Boîtadisc)
  • 1984: Darkness with the light (Boîtadisc)
  • 1998: It is too easy (Compilation CD of the first titles) (Fonodor)

Participations in other albums

  • 1979 : Quebec, child of water (Topic of the startup of Stopping LG2)

  • 1990: Repentance (Collection of songs of religious inspiration)

Books

  • 1983 : Marie-Odile Vézina and Edward Rémy, “Heads of poster” (Editions of Spring)

  • 1992: Robert Thérien and Isabelle D' Amours, “Dictionary of the popular music in Quebec of 1955 to 1992” (Québécois Institute of research on the culture)
  • 1999: Marcel Fog, “the song in heritage” (the Québécor Editions)
  • 1999: Julie Arel, “a predestined life I want to live” (Biography, Éditions Open Heart)

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