Catherine Major (born February 18, 1980) is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter from Quebec.[1] 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.[2]
Originally from Outremont, she studied piano in childhood. She released her debut album Par-dessus bord, in 2004[3] and toured to support the album as an opening act for Richard Desjardins.[4] 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.[4] The following year she released her second album, Rose sang.[4]
Le désert des solitudes was released in 2011.[5] 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).[6]
Her fourth album, La maison du monde, followed in 2015.[7]
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.[8] Later the same year she performed a show with the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, premiering several new songs from her forthcoming fifth album.[9] The album, Carte mère, was released in 2020.[10]
^Élise Jetté, "Catherine Major within herself". Words and Music, May 15, 2020.
^Nick Patch, "Quatre Québécois triomphent aux Juno". Métro, April 1, 2012.
^Ralph Boncy, "Catherine Major: Par-dessus bord". Voir, March 4, 2004.
^ abcLuc Proulx, "Catherine Major: Rose sang". L'actualité, December 2, 2008.
^Geneviève Bouchard, "Catherine Major : entre confiance et fébrilité". Le Soleil, September 10, 2011.
^Charles-Henri Ramond, "Prix Jutra 2012: voilà les nominations". Films du Québec, January 31, 2012.
^Daniel Lemay, "Catherine Major: Bien du monde dans la maison". La Presse, September 18, 2015.
^"La chanson pour Renée Claude en tête du palmarès iTunes Canada". Ici Radio-Canada, March 11, 2019.
^Josianne Desloges, "Catherine Major et l'OSQ: le vertige de l'ivresse". Le Soleil, May 23, 2019.
^Valérie Cloutier, "Carte mère, le cinquième album de Catherine Major". Ici Radio-Canada Quebec City, May 11, 2020.
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