Alexandra Hernandez

Alexandra Hernandez was born in Saint Pierre and Miquelon in 1981,{{Cite web|title=Biographie ALEXANDRA HERNANDEZ|url=https://www.infoconcert.com/artiste/alexandra-hernandez-78894/concerts.html?menu=biographie|access-date=24 September 2020|website=Info Concert|language=fr}} the daughter of an Algerian father and Miquelonnais mother.{{Cite web|date=6 December 2016|title=Alexandra Hernandez chante Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon en ouverture de Fest'îles|url=https://www.francetvinfo.fr/culture/musique/opera/alexandra-hernandez-chante-saint-pierre-et-miquelon-en-ouverture-de-fest-039-iles_3327519.html|access-date=24 September 2020|website=Franceinfo|language=fr}} Her mother is of Acadian background, dating back to the colonists' arrival on the archipelago.{{Cite web|last=Mousseau|first=Sylvie|date=1 August 2020|title=Alexandra Hernandez: l'artiste de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon revient à la musique|url=https://www.acadienouvelle.com/arts-et-spectacles/2020/08/17/alexandra-hernandez-lartiste-de-saint-pierre-et-miquelon-revient-a-la-musique/|access-date=24 September 2020|website=Acadie Nouvelle|language=fr-FR}}

At age 18, Hernandez left the territory to study music at the University of Montreal, where she studied saxophone for five years. In 2004, after college, she moved to France. There, she learned guitar and began writing songs, taking first prize in several European competitions.

Her music is multicultural, balancing between her French and North American roots.{{Cite web|title=Alexandra Hernandez|url=https://www.agorila.com/339_alexandra-hernandez|website=Agorila}} She sees herself as neither French, Acadian, or North American, but all three. She "seeks to strengthen the ties between the French archipelago and its Canadian neighbors, the Atlantic Provinces."{{Cite web|title=Retour sur le concert d'Alexandra Hernandez lors d'Acadie Rock|url=https://moncton.consulfrance.org/Retour-sur-le-concert-d-Alexandra-Hernandez-lors-d-Acadie-Rock|access-date=24 September 2020|website=Consulat Général de France à Moncton|language=fr}}{{Cite web|title=Participation de l'artiste française Alexandra HERNANDEZ au Festival Acadie Rock 2020 en ligne|url=https://moncton.consulfrance.org/Participation-de-l-artiste-francaise-Alexandra-HERNANDEZ-au-Festival-Acadie|access-date=24 September 2020|website=Consulat Général de France à Moncton|language=fr}}

After settling for a period in Landes and dividing her time between France, Quebec, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon,{{Cite web|title=Alexandra Hernandez|url=https://www.cdm-studio.fr/Alexandra-Hernandez_a28.html|website=CDM Studio|language=fr}} Hernandez returned permanently to her home territory in 2015. In 2017 she created the Festival Les Transboréales, an annual music festival in Saint Pierre and Miquelon.{{Cite web|date=2 July 2020|title=VIDEO. Festival les Transboréales : le live, un archipel en musique|url=https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/video-festival-transboreales-live-archipel-musique-846178.html|access-date=24 September 2020|website=Outre-mer la 1ère|language=fr-FR}} It aims to bring together French and Canadian artists in unusual locations on the remote archipelago.{{Cite web|last=Boulenger|first=Emilie|date=2 August 2018|title=Succès du festival les Transboréales à Saint-Pierre et Miquelon|url=https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/saintpierremiquelon/succes-du-festival-transboreales-saint-pierre-miquelon-619670.html|access-date=24 September 2020|website=Saint-Pierre et Miquelon la 1ère|language=fr-FR}}{{Cite web|title=Artistes français et canadiens réunis pour le festival des Transboréales à Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon|url=https://www.francetelevisions.fr/et-vous/notre-tele/a-ne-pas-manquer/festival-des-transboreales-a-saint-pierre-et-miquelon-3241|access-date=24 September 2020|website=France tv & vous|language=fr}}

Hernandez's work has been featured by the French Consulate-General in Moncton, Canada, as part of the Acadie Rock Festival, a celebration of Acadian culture.{{Cite web|title=Est & Canada – Alexandra Hernandez a Acadie Rock|url=https://francecanadaculture.org/events/est-canada-alexandra-hernandez-a-acadie-rock/|access-date=24 September 2020|website=France Canada Culture|language=en-US}} She also represented her home country at a joint concert celebrating Overseas France at the Olympia in Paris in 2019.{{Cite web|last=Lahiton|first=Frédéric|date=1 September 2019|title=Direction l'Olympia pour Alexandra Hernandez|url=https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/saintpierremiquelon/direction-olympia-alexandra-hernandez-750607.html|access-date=24 September 2020|website=Saint-Pierre et Miquelon la 1ère|language=fr-FR}}{{Cite web|last=Boulenger|first=Emilie|date=2 September 2019|title=La saint-pierraise Alexandra Hernandez raconte son incroyable expérience sur la scène de l'Olympia|url=https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/saintpierremiquelon/saint-pierraise-alexandra-hernandez-raconte-son-incroyable-experience-scene-olympia-751937.html|access-date=24 September 2020|website=Saint-Pierre et Miquelon la 1ère|language=fr-FR}}

In additional to her musical efforts, Hernandez is also a poet. Her poems appeared in the book Saint-Pierre et Miquelon: Terre de Passions, in collaboration with the photographer Gregory Pol, in 2016.{{Cite book|last=Pol|first=Grégory|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/974830656|title=Saint-Pierre et Miquelon : terre de passions|date=2016|publisher=Vilo|others=Hernandez, Alexandra.|isbn=978-2-7191-1019-5|location=Ivry-sur-Seine|oclc=974830656}}

• Ma Tranqu'île (2009)
• Lula-Rose (2012)

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