Catherine Major (born February 18, 1980) is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter from

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. She is most noted for her 2011 album ''Le désert des solitudes'', which was a

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nominee for Francophone Album of the Year at the

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. Originally from Outremont, she studied piano in childhood. She released her debut album ''Par-dessus bord'', in 2004 and toured to support the album as an opening act for Richard Desjardins.Luc Proulx
"Catherine Major: Rose sang"
'' L'actualité'', December 2, 2008. In 2007 she composed music for Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette's film '' The Ring (Le Ring)'', for which she won the

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for Best Original Music at the 10th Jutra Awards. The following year she released her second album, ''Rose sang''. ''Le désert des solitudes'' was released in 2011. In 2012, she received a second Jutra nomination for Best Original Music, for her work on Micheline Lanctôt's film '' For the Love of God (Pour l'amour de Dieu)''. Her fourth album, ''La maison du monde'', followed in 2015. In 2019, she participated alongside

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, Diane Dufresne,

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, Luce Dufault, Louise Forestier, Laurence Jalbert, Ariane Moffatt, Marie Denise Pelletier and Marie-Élaine Thibert in a supergroup recording of

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's "Tu trouveras la paix", as a charitable fundraiser for

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research after Claude's diagnosis with Alzheimer's was announced. Later the same year she performed a show with the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, premiering several new songs from her forthcoming fifth album. The album, ''Carte mère'', was released in 2020.Valérie Cloutier
"Carte mère, le cinquième album de Catherine Major"

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Quebec City, May 11, 2020.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Major, Catherine 1980 births Living people 21st-century Canadian pianists 21st-century Canadian women singers Canadian women pop singers Canadian pop pianists French-language singers of Canada People from Outremont, Quebec Singers from Montreal 21st-century Canadian women pianists