Marie Denise Furrier

Biography

Whereas it was interested in arts, it improves its technique of song with Mrs. Lucille Dumont. Marie Denise Pelletier made besides, simultaneously with the lessons, her studies in literature and cinema with CÉGEP of Rosemont.

She gained, in 1982, the price of interpretation of the Festival of the song of Granby and the first place with a contest CKMF-FM intended to discover the future craftsmen of the changing in Québécois song. In 1985, it recorded a first 45 turns on vinyl entitled Échec and Chechmate before going to study with the Berkeley College of Boston.

Returned in Quebec, one proposed to him the character of Stella Spotlight in the Québécois 2nd edition of the rock opera Starmania. In 1986, Marie Denise Pelletier composed and interpreted its first album, “ First Contact ” which was nominated with the Official reception of the ADISQ in the Découverte category of the year. In 1987, it recorded then the album of Starmania and connects a second microgroove in October, “ In a pure state ”. This album probably generated two greater successes of the interpreter: “ For a one evening history ” and “ All cries, S.O.S. ”, composed by Balavoine. Some 150 spectacles and some videos clip cemented the reputation and the career of Marie Denise Pelletier like a large Québécois artist.

She took again the ball with the jump in 1990 with the album “ Survivre ” and the following year with “the appointment”, a opus taking again some songs of the Québécois artistic inheritance. The round of the same name gave more than 200 representations. The extract “To invent the ground” succeeded the others in 1993 before the exit of its fifth album: “ Between the head and the heart ”. May 1994, the Théâtre Saint-Denis of Montreal is the place where the kickoff is given to a new round. Besides the Québécois press noticed its service for its elegance and its professionalism. The same year, it belonged to the spectacle of the national Festival from Quebec in Quebec. The Official reception of the ADISQ, with the autumn, crowned the album “ Between the head and the heart ” as being the “best popular album of the year”.

A sixth opus, “the sixth day” was launched in 1996 and in 1997 it took part in the first Festival of arts of the Francophonie, with Hanoi. It was invited to celebrate the National Festival of Quebec with Laval, at the summer of the same year. Then, at the end of the years 1990, several rounds followed of which one in company of Bruno Pelletier and Nathalie Choquette. The author, type-setter, interpreter even had to imply itself in the defense of the interests of the Québécois artists via the Union of the Artists. 1999 was the year when Marie Denise Pelletier flew away towards Africa where several representations were offered to the sides of local French-speaking high-speed motorboats: Meiway, Baited Koné and the Brothers Own way.

“ Pleasure of love ”, an album launched in the year 2000, preceded another round which will finish only in 2002 whereas one recruited it for the musical comedy Romeo and Juliette. A homage to Queen, British the rock'n'roll group, encased the step the same year. “ words of Marnay ”, an album taking again the songs written by Eddy Marnay, French author recently deceased, published in 2003. A compilation entitled “Its more beautiful songs” was published in 2004. Several spectacles are with the schedule for 2006.

Discography

First contact (1986)
In a pure state (1987)
To survive (1989)
the appointment (1991)
Between the head and the heart (1993)
the sixth day (1996)
Its greater ballades ( compilation ) (1997)
Pleasure of love (2000)
words of Marnay (2003)
Its more beautiful songs ( compilation ) (2004)
Christmas, speaks to me (2005)

External bond

Official site

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