Stephanie Biddle

{{short description|Canadian jazz singer and actress|bot=PearBOT 5}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Stephanie Biddle

| image = Stephanie Biddle Actor, Artist, Professional Vocalist.jpg

| background = solo_singer

| birth_name = Stephanie Andrea Biddle

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|8|23}}

| birth_place = LaSalle, Quebec, Canada

| genre = Vocal jazz

| occupation = Singer, actress

| years_active =

| label = Elan

| associated_acts = 1987–present

| website = {{URL|stephaniebiddle.com}}

}}

Stephanie Andrea Biddle (born 23 August 1963) is a Canadian jazz singer and actress.

Career

Biddle was born in Quebec to jazz bassist Charlie Biddle and a French-Canadian mother. During part of her childhood she lived in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts. When she was 15, she moved to Montreal and began modeling. From 1987–1989, she sang traditional pop and jazz standards at clubs and weddings with the band Living Proof.{{cite web |title= Stephanie Biddle – Bio|url=http://www.stephaniebiddle.com/stephanie-biddle-bio.html | website=www.stephaniebiddle.com |accessdate=26 May 2018}}Brownstein, Bill. "Biddles springing up all over Montreal entertainment scene", Montreal Gazette, 1988-03-05, p. D4. Aided by a record producer in Paris, she recorded the hit single "Dis-moi" (1991) which peaked at No. 11 on the French pop chart. For the next few years she sang in Le Gosier, Guadeloupe.Perusse, B. "Stephanie Biddle carries the torch", Montreal Gazette, 2003-03-30, p. B1.

Biddle appeared in the films Crunch (1979), The Moderns (1988), The Whole Nine Yards (2000), One Eyed King (2001), and in the television movie A Diva's Christmas Carol with Vanessa L. Williams. She performed in La Haut at Rouen Opera House."Biddle bit of... a superstar", South China Morning Post, 2005-10-12, p. 2. She also had a role in the 2001 French-language film Karmen Geï, "a re-make of the movie Carmen.Published on August 2, 2002, San Jose Mercury News (CA): "ITS EARTHY STAR SIZZLES IN LUSTY 'KARMEN GEI': Carmen... gets a glorious makeover in the French-Senegalese import Karmen Gei. Well, makeover may be too polite a term. This Carmen, or Karmen, as played by an ever-spinning, ever-undulating force of nature named Djeinaba Diop Gai, is the earthiest, lustiest Carmen yet."[http://www.theafricachannel.com/programs.php?genre=featurefilm The Africa Channel Presents: Karmen Gei]: "The film stars two charismatic, statuesque beauties: Djeinaba Diop Gai as Karmen and Stephanie Biddle as Angelique, the warden of a women's prison where Karmen is initially held..."

In 1991, her debut album, Dis-moi, was released,Recording Title (CD or Album): DIS-MOI/BIDDLE, STEPHANIE Spine: ELAC-5001 Disk: 1 Side: 0 Cut Number: 1 Release Year: 1991 Label Name: ELAN

Personal life

Her brother Charles Jr. is also a performer. Her older sister Sonya Biddle was a former Montreal city councillor and her younger sister Tracy, a bartender and singer,Lalonde, Michelle. "Biddle's widow", The Gazette, 2005-02-04, p. A7. is a freelance writer and hosted radio shows on CBC radio network.CBC Radio 88.5 > The Flip Side: "With The Flip Side, I wanted to bring to light the views of different people from all walks of life..."

References

{{cite news |first=Robert |last=Faires|title=Dance Review – In the Pocket |url=http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/review?oid=235998 |publisher=Austin Chronicle |date=November 5, 2004 |accessdate=2008-06-10 }}
{{cite news|title= Karmen.(Review) |url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-10269979_ITM |work=Variety|date=1 October 2001 |accessdate=2008-06-10 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080620235719/http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-10269979_ITM |archivedate = 2008-06-20}}