Nicole Martin
Nicole Martin | |
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| Birth name | Nicole Martin |
| Born | September 29, 1949 Quebec City (Donnacona), Quebec, Canada |
| Died | February 19, 2019 (aged 69) Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Genres | Chanson, pop |
| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 1963 – 2019 |
| Labels | Disques Révolution (1969 - 1970) Disques Campus (1971 - 1975) Disques Martin (1976 - 1979) Disques Nicole Martin et Kébec-Disque (1980 - 1987) Disques Diva (1988 - 2019) |
| Website | www.nicolemartin.ca |
Nicole Martin (Donnacona, September 29, 1949 - Montreal, February 19, 2019.[1]) is a Quebec singer-songwriter, television presenter, director and producer. A Quebec singer, she is first and foremost a performer, but she also sometimes turns into an author, composer, television host, as well as director or producer, for herself as well as for other artists[2].
Early life[edit]
Nicole Martin was born on September 29, 1949 in Donnacona, near Quebec City. Her parents, Simone Brousseau and Joseph Martin, later raised their small family in the Old Capital. Initiated very early in music and singing by her mother who already works herself as a singer at Château Frontenac as well as in parish halls for weddings, the young Nicole also decides to try her luck in the profession. After studying the piano, accordion, percussion and other musical instruments for ten years, she began in 1963, at the age of 14, as a singer and as a presenter in clubs in Quebec City. Being a minor and wanting to be hired, she did not hesitate, with the complicity of her mother as chaperone, to make up and dress so as to pass quite naturally for an 18 year old girl.
Musical career[edit]
From 1965, Nicole Martin joined forces with singer Frédéric Boudreau and vibraphonist Louis McKinley and together they toured Quebec, performing in all cabarets. This is the time of the duo Nicole and Frédéric, and the latter is also the singer's first great love. They work together with the musical group Les Sages for five years, and will endorse a series of 45 rpm in 1967 and 1968, and a full album in 1969. The couple separated in 1970. This same year, Nicole Martin meets singer and producer Tony Roman who turns her into Zerra, a strange character who sings Janis Joplin-style rock. Zerra sang, on the stages of arenas and at the Autostade of Montréal, titles of Robert Charlebois (California), Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker and Julie Driscoll... this in the first part of, in particular, Johnny Winter, Procol Harum, Jethro Tull and Chicago. Zerra becomes, with Robert Charlebois, the only Quebec artist to step onto the stage of the legendary Esquire Show Bar in Montreal, Quebec. But after a year in the shoes of this character, she becomes Nicole Martin again, and in 1971, she meets producer Yves Martin (no family ties), which will bring her success.
Between 1971 and 1991, she recorded a large number of albums and 45 rpm and worked with the greatest lyricists and composers of the French-speaking world. In France, she worked in particular with Francis Lai, Jean Musy and Eddy Marnay, then in Quebec, with Stéphane Venne, André Gagnon, Pierre Létourneau, Claude Léveillée, Angelo Finaldi and Luc Plamondon. Among its great successes, we can cite: Une photo de toi and Tout tourne et tout bouge (1971), La première nuit d’amour (1972), Jimmy Jimmy and Tes yeux (1973), Ce serait dommage (1974), Tant pis and Oui paraît-il (1975), L’Hymne à l’amour and Tu n’peux pas t’figurer (1976), Je lui dirai, Cet enfant de toi, Rien n’est impossible, Bravo and Bonsoir tristesse (1977), Ne t’en va pas and Vivre libre (1978), Laisse-moi partir, Soleil and Tout seul au monde (1979), Il était une fois des gens heureux (1981), L’amour avec toi (1983), Il est en nous l’amour (1985), Pars (1986) and C’est l’amour (1989). With Bonsoir tristesse (composed by Francis Lai), she won great honors in Japan by winning, in 1977, the Grand Prix "Yamaha World Popular Song Festival" in Tokyo.
In 1986, the Groupe TVA network offered her to host the variety En chansons from January to May of that year, and she agreed to take up this new challenge. She makes this show a success and the ratings will increase to over a million viewers each week of presentation, which is huge for a variety. The management of Groupe TVA then gave him the animation of Showbizz from September 1986 to May 1987, a role that Nicole Martin will successfully fulfill.
Nicole Martin meets producer Lee Abbott in the early 1980s, and falls in love with him. They settle down together and also decide to work together. They founded the record company "Les Disques Diva Inc." in 1988 and produced many Quebec artists between 1989 and 2001. After a break of a few years, Nicole Martin returned to her profession as a singer in 2009 by publishing a jazz album which was very successful. On this disc, she records standards of jazz music, in particular The Man I Love, Come Rain or Come Shine, C'est si bon and P.S. I Love You. In 2012, she published the album Cocktail Lounge which contains the songs What a Diff'rence a Day Made, Fly Me to the Moon and The Girl from Ipanema.
Death[edit]
Nicole Martin died in Montreal on February 19, 2019 at the age of 69[3]. Following this news, many tributes are paid to the artist by the artistic, journalistic and political communities of Quebec[4]
Discography[edit]
Albums[edit]
- 1969 : Nicole et Frédéric en spectacle (Révolution ∫ RE-6002)
- 1972 : La Première Nuit d'amour (Disques Campus ∫ C-59301)
- 1973 : Jimmy Jimmy (album) – Disque d’Or (Disques Campus ∫ C-39305)
- 1974 : Les cœurs n'ont pas de fenêtres (Disques Campus ∫ C-69302) (duet with Jimmy Bond)
- 1975 : Nicole Martin (album) (Disques Campus ∫ C-69301)
- 1976 : L'Hymne à l'amour (Disques Martin ∫ M-16201)
- 1977 : Je lui dirai (Disques Martin ∫ M-16203) Platinum
- 1977 : Bonsoir tristesse (Disques Martin - Elektra - Warner ∫ P-10473-E) (Japan only)
- 1978 : Ne t'en va pas (Disques Martin ∫ M-16207) Gold
- 1979 : Laisse-moi partir (Disques Martin ∫ M-16218) Gold
- 1979 : Noël avec Nicole Martin (Disques Martin ∫ M-16223) 3 times Platinum
- 1980 : Laissez-moi chanter (Disques Nicole Martin ∫ NM-01)
- 1982 : Une affaire de cœur (Kébec-Disque ∫ KD-539)
- 1983 : Nostalgie de Noël (Les Productions Guy Cloutier ∫ GC-2205)
- 1984 : L'Amour avec toi (Les Disques Star – Vamp ∫ VR-104)
- 1985 : Il est en nous l'amour (Disques Isba ∫ IS-2003)
- 1987 : Histoires de femmes (Disques Nicole Martin ∫ NM-002)
- 1991 : Le Goût d'aimer (Les Disques Diva ∫ DIVA-C-16)
- 1993 : Un Noël d'amour (Les Disques Diva ∫ DIVC-22)
- 2000 : L'Amour avec toi – Réédition CD (Unidisc ∫ UBK-4088)
- 2010 : Cocktail de douceur (Les Disques Diva / Musicor ∫ MQMCD-2413)
- 2011 : Joyeux Noël (Coffret de 2 CD) (Les Disques Diva / Musicor ∫ MUPSCD-2-6429)
- 2012 : Cocktail Lounge (Les Disques Diva / Musicor ∫ MQMCD-2450)
Soundtracks[edit]
- 1981 : Les Plouffe – Trame sonore du film de Gilles Carle (Disques Pro-Culture ∫ PCP-900)
- 1981 : The Plouffe Family (Les Plouffe) – The original soundtrack from the movie directed by Gilles Carle (Sefel Records ∫ P-1938)
Greatest Hits[edit]
- 1978 : Dix ans de ma vie (Disques Martin - K-Tel ∫ KF-147) 2 times Platinum
- 1979 : Tout seul au monde – Collection d’Or (Disques Martin ∫ M-16221) Platinum
- 1987 : Grands succès (Les Disques Star – Vamp ∫ STR-9003)
- 1989 : 20 ans d’amour, 20 chansons – C'est l'amour (Les Disques Diva ∫ DIVA-C-09)
- 2001 : Mes grands succès Vol. 1 (Les Disques Diva ∫ DIVC-35) Gold
- 2002 : Mes grands succès Vol. 2 (Les Disques Diva ∫ DIVC-36)
- 2010 : Il était une fois… Nicole Martin (Anthologie - 3 CD box set) (Les Disques Diva / Musicor ∫ MUPSCD-3-6406)
References[edit]
- ↑ "Singer Nicole Martin dies". Huffington Post. 16 March 2019. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ↑ Nicole Martin : grande chanteuse, Sylvain Cormier article published in the newspaper “Le Devoir”
- ↑ Radio-Canada : Singer Nicole Martin has passed away
- ↑ TVA Nouvelles : The artistic community shaken by the death of Nicole Martin
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