Role Singer-songwriter Name Lisa LeBlanc | Labels Bonsound Years active 2006-present Record label Bonsound | |
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Albums Lisa LeBlanc, Highways, Heartaches and Time Well Wasted Nominations Juno Award for Francophone Album of the Year, Independent Music Award for Best Album - Singer-Songwriter Similar Édith Butler, Yann Perreau, Angèle Arsenault Born 13 August 1990 (age 30), Rosaireville, Canada Profiles | ||
Cm catches up with lisa leblanc
Lisa LeBlanc (born August 13, 1990, is a Canadian singer-songwriter and banjoist, known for her enthusiastic "Trash folk" performances. As of 2016, she has released three albums of folk/rock music.
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- Cm catches up with lisa leblanc
- Lisa leblanc live at massey hall june 6 2015
- Early life
- Musical career
- References
Lisa leblanc live at massey hall june 6 2015
Early life
LeBlanc was born in Rosaireville, New Brunswick. She is of Acadian heritage, and comes from a family of music lovers.
Musical career
LeBlanc composed her first pieces around the age of fourteen. LeBlanc was recognized as an outstanding guitarist and a promising singer-songwriter when she won the Festival international de la chanson de Granby in September 2010. This juried award brought her to the attention of the country's francophone media. She has also played at the 2011 Coup de cœur francophone, at the FrancoFolies of Montreal and at the Festival d'Été de Québec.
The majority of Lisa LeBlanc's first album was written in downtown Rosaireville, in Granby during her studies at l'École nationale de la chanson as well as in Montreal, where she was living. Released in March on Bonsound Records, the album was recorded by Louis-Jean Cormier (Karkwa) at Studio Piccolo.
Lisa's self-titled album Lisa LeBlanc was released in 2012. It has been certified platinum by Music Canada for shipping 80,000 copies.
In 2014, she released Highways, Heartaches and Time Well Wasted, an English EP, which debuted at number seven on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling 3,400 copies.
Why You Wanna Leave, Runaway Queen?, her third album, which includes both French and English titles, was released on the 30th of September, 2016.