France D'Amour
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France D'Amour (born France Rochon on March 30, 1964) is a French Canadian singer songwriter from Quebec.{{cite news|author=Daniel Daigneault|title=France D'Amour: "Je me sens comme si j'avais encore 20 ans!"|url=http://www.canoe.com/divertissement/musique/entrevues/2005/03/23/1749632-ca.html|publisher=canoe.com|date=23 May 2005|accessdate=13 April 2015|language=fr|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905015655/http://www.canoe.com/divertissement/musique/entrevues/2005/03/23/1749632-ca.html|archive-date=5 September 2008|url-status=dead}}
She studied music at Collège Lionel-Groulx in Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec specialising in jazz and playing guitar. Later, she was part of various musical formations, notably U-Bahn, The Answer and France. In 1992, she gained great fame with her debut album Animal that was certified gold in Quebec. In 2002, she had success in France as well through her collaboration with Jean-Jacques Goldman, who co-wrote the album with his team (Robert Goldman, Jacques Veneruso, Christophe Battaglia, Erick Benzi and Gildas Arzel).
She has also appeared on stage and in film. In 1998, she played the role of Esmeralda in a French tour version of the musical comedy Notre-Dame-de-Paris. She also appeared in a secondary role in the film Les Boys 3 as well as in the film's soundtrack.
France d'Amour has a son, François, born in 1988. In April 2011, she also confirmed during a popular talk show on Quebec television Tout le monde en parle that she followed the Church of Scientology for almost 20 years.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ruefrontenac.com/spectacles/36443/36443/|title=Rue Frontenac - Scientologie: sujet sensible à Tout le monde en parle|website=www.ruefrontenac.com|access-date=2020-02-27}}
Discography
=Albums=
- 1992: Animal
- 1994: Déchaînée
- 1998: Le Silence des roses
- 2002: France D'Amour
- 2005: Hors de tout doute
- 2007: Les autres
- 2009: Le présent
- 2011: Bubble Bath & Champagne
- 2013: En love majeur
- 2016: Bubble Bath & Champagne, Volume 2
- 2019: D'Amour et Rock&roll
- 2024: Quatorze
;Compilation albums
- 2000: Nomade (compilation)
- 2018: Best of (compilation)
References
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External links
- [http://www.francedamour.ca/ Official website]
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Category:20th-century Canadian women singers
Category:Canadian women singer-songwriters
Category:French-language singers of Canada
Category:21st-century Canadian women singers
Category:Canadian women pop singers