Térez Montcalm

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Térez Montcalm is a Canadian jazz singer and guitarist who broke through to international success in 2007. Born in Quebec, Canada, she grew up bilingually in a family where French and English were spoken interchangeably and where music was important.

Her father, a native English speaker originally from Toronto, was a jazz fan who enjoyed Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Nat King Cole. The youngest of five children, she had brothers who were into Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa as well as sisters who were into the Beatles and Edith Piaf. In addition to these influences, Montcalm had favorites of her own, above all Eurythmics lead singer Annie Lennox.

Exhibiting an extraordinarily strong voice from an early age, she attended music school as a teenager and ultimately made her full-length recording debut in 1994 with the album Risque on BMG. Sung primarily in French and comprised of original material as well as covers of Charles Aznavour, Tom Waits, and others, Risque was well received from a critical standpoint, and in the wake of its release, Montcalm was awarded a Prix Rapsat-Lelièvre in 1995.

She released her follow-up album, Parle Pas Si Fort, on Universal in 1997 and subsequently retreated from the marketplace for a while, not releasing her third album, Térez Montcalm, until five years later in 2002.
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  • izality

    pure divaaazz hahaha

    January 2012
  • SoulJazzsterInc

    She's amazing. Her voice is like a blend of Janis Joplin and Billie Holiday, so raspy, gritty and soulful, I love it!

    November 2011
  • bedvelvet

    Nicce.

    March 2011
  • LucidStrike

    I digs. :)

    March 2010
  • wingking

    any

    January 2010
  • kaplan06

    Hello my friend, Your page very nice page and songs. :) I wish add you. :) http://www.kristalfm.biz/istek.php My name is Hüseyin

    December 2009
  • honktonk

    adorable, la quiero mucho..........

    October 2009
  • Buffa_Andrea

    un amico ci ha consigliato la tua musica :-) !! great!!

    November 2008
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