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Gabrielle Strasfeld, known professionally as Gabrielle Papillon, is a Canadian musician and songwriter based in
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. To date she has recorded seven albums.


Career

In 2015, she released her fifth album ''The Tempest of Old''. It charted on Canadian national campus radio, CBC Radio 2, and the international iTunes Singer-Songwriter charts and won the Music Nova Scotia Award for Recording of the Year. She also began working with veteran music manager
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. She released her sixth album ''Keep the Fire'' in 2017. The album was nominated for three East Coast Music Awards, four Music Nova Scotia Awards, and a Canadian Folk Music Award, winning the Music Nova Scotia award for SOCAN Songwriter of the Year in 2018. Papillon's seventh album ''Shout'' was released in 2019. Songs from Papillon's albums have appeared in various films and television shows in Canada, the United States, and Australia including ''Rookie Blue'' (USA) and ''This Life'' (CAN).
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, host of
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's 'q', has called Papillon "one of the finest songwriters in the country right now". In an interview for the
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, writer, director, and actor
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said of Papillon "She is an incredible songwriter and has a transcendent voice."


Discography


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