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Charlotte Cardin

Charlotte Cardin

Canadian musician (born 1994)


Charlotte Cardin (born November 9, 1994) is a Canadian pop, electro and jazz singer and songwriter from Montreal, Quebec.[1] She has been nominated for 14 Juno Awards. In 2022, she received four awards for Artist of the Year, Single of the Year for her song "Meaningless", Pop Album of the Year and Album of the Year for her 2021 debut album "Phoenix". Her second album 99 Nights was released in 2023.

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Life and career

Cardin grew up in the Town of Mount Royal on the island of Montreal.[2] Cardin began her career as a model at the age of 15, where she appeared in numerous advertising campaigns such as Barilà.[3] She was a Top 4 finalist in the first season of the TVA singing competition La Voix in 2013,[4] later the same year she was featured on Garou's album Au milieu de ma vie as a duet vocalist on the single "Du vent, des mots".[5] On March 1, 2014, she appeared on the sister series The Voice: la plus belle voix in France to perform the song with Garou, a judge on that edition.[6]

She released her solo debut EP, Big Boy, in 2016 on Cult Nation Records.[7] The EP featured songs in both English and French,[1] and included rapper Nate Husser as a featured artist on "Like It Doesn't Hurt".[8] She was a shortlisted SOCAN Songwriting Prize finalist in the French division for her song "Les échardes",[9] and the title track "Big Boy" was playlisted on CBC Radio 2 and charted on the Radio 2 Top 20.[10] She made an appearance on the talk show Tout le monde en parle[11] to discuss her mini-album in November 2016.[12]

For the 2017 SOCAN Songwriting Prize, she was a nominee in the English category for "Big Boy" and in the French category for "Faufile", becoming the first artist in the history of the award to be nominated in both categories in the same year.[13] In 2017, she released her second EP, Main Girl.[14]

She received two Juno Award nominations at the Juno Awards of 2018, for Breakthrough Artist of the Year and Songwriter of the Year for "Main Girl", "Paradise Motion" and "The Kids".[15] In 2018, she received another SOCAN Songwriting Prize nomination for "Main Girl".[16]

In 2019, Cardin and producer CRi collaborated on a cover of Daniel Bélanger's "Fous n'importe où",[17] and Cardin appeared on Loud's album Tout ça pour ça as a duet vocalist on the track "Sometimes, All the Time".[18] In 2020 she released the singles "Passive Aggressive"[19] and "Daddy"; both tracks were recorded for her full-length debut album Phoenix, which was released on April 23, 2021.[20][21] Phoenix is co-written with Cardin's longtime manager Jason Brando of Cult Nation.[22]

In 2021, Her debut album Phoenix won the Felix Award for Anglophone Album of the Year at the 43rd Félix Awards. Cardin also won the awards for Anglophone Concert of the Year and Most Successful Artist Outside Quebec.[23] Cardin was the most-nominated artist at the Juno Awards of 2022, receiving nods for Artist of the Year, Album of the Year for Phoenix, Pop Album of the Year for Phoenix, Single of the Year and Video of the Year for "Meaningless", and the Fan Choice Award.[24]

In April 2023, she released "Confetti", the first single from her second album 99 Nights.[25] In June she announced that the album would be released on August 25, 2023.[26] After the release of the album, she created an EP, Une semaine à Paris, containing four songs: "Real Love", made with artist Laylow, the French version of "Confetti" which had already been released with Confetti and the piano version of the song, "Feel Good", and "Un peu trop".

Band members

  • Benjamin Courcy – drums[27]
  • Mathieu Sénéchal – bass guitar, musical director[28] and co-writer of "Daddy"[29][30][31]

Discography

Studio albums

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Notes

  1. "Main Girl" did not enter the Ultratop 50, but peaked at number 36 on the Ultratip Bubbling Under 50 chart.
  2. "Du vent, des mots" did not enter the Ultratop 50, but peaked at number 7 on the Ultratip Bubbling Under 50 chart.

References

  1. Calum Slingerland, "Charlotte Cardin Readies Debut Album 'Phoenix'". Exclaim!, February 12, 2021.
  2. Weil-Brenner, Luc (March 1, 2021). "Charlotte Cardin reporte la sortie de son album Phoenix". www.iheartradio.ca (in Canadian French). Retrieved April 3, 2021.
  3. Stanley, Laura (March 23, 2021). "Charlotte Cardin Rises from the Ashes and Finds Her Authentic Self". exclaim.ca. Retrieved April 3, 2021.
  4. "Sur mesure: Dans l'intimité musicale de Charlotte Cardin". Radio-Canada (in French). September 23, 2021.
  5. "SOCAN presents five No. 1 Song Awards at 2021 Osheaga Festival". SOCAN. October 5, 2021. Retrieved November 28, 2021.
  6. "Charlotte Cardin". Ultratop.be. Retrieved September 20, 2022.
  7. "Discographie Charlotte Cardin". Lescharts.com (in French). Retrieved September 22, 2022.
  8. "Charlotte Cardin". hitparade.ch. Hung Medien. Retrieved September 30, 2022.
  9. "Voici les gagnants du Gala de l'ADISQ 2017". Hollywood PQ. Retrieved February 21, 2024.
  10. "ADISQ Award Nominations Unveiled". SOCAN. Retrieved February 21, 2024.
  11. "Gala ADISQ 2021 Winners Announced". The Daily Rind. Retrieved February 21, 2024.
  12. "Charlotte Cardin Artist Profile". Juno Awards. Retrieved February 21, 2024.
  13. "Taylor Swift Tops 'Canceled' 2023 MTV EMA Awards". Rolling Stone. November 6, 2023. Retrieved February 21, 2024.
  14. "2018 SOCAN Songwriting Prize Nominees Revealed". Exclaim!. May 23, 2018. Retrieved February 21, 2024.

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