Safia Nolin is a French Canadian folk-pop singer-songwriter from
Quebec City
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,
Quebec
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Bonsound
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Bonsound also operate two subsidia ...
. Modestly successful at first, her album sales increased significantly in 2016 after she appeared on '' Tout le monde en parle'', opening up about her teenage struggles with
anxiety
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and
bullying
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Montreal Gazette
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'', January 31, 2016. She has toured
France
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as an opening act for
Lou Doillon
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Personal life
Doillon is the daughter of French writer/director Jacques Doillon and English actress/singer Jane Birkin. She has six brothers and sisters: Kat ...
, and Quebec as an opening act for
Louis-Jean Cormier
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.
In June 2016, she won the Prix Félix-Leclerc at the FrancoFolies de Montréal. Her song "Igloo" was shortlisted for the 2016
SOCAN Songwriting Prize The SOCAN Songwriting Prize, formerly known as the ECHO Songwriting Prize, is an annual competition recognizing the best in Canadian emerging music, both anglophone and francophone.
Established in 2006, the competition was designed to recognize som ...
, and ''Limoilou'' was named a longlisted nominee for the
2016 Polaris Music Prize The 2016 edition of the Canadian Polaris Music Prize was presented on September 19, 2016 at The Carlu event theatre in Toronto, Ontario.lesbian. She dated the French singer Pomme.
In 2019 she released the EP ''xX3m0 $0ng$ 2 $!nG @L0nG 2Xx''. It included a duet with
John K. Samson
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, on a cover of
Taking Back Sunday
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's "Cute Without the E".
In 2020 she coordinated Saint-Jeanne, an LGBTQ-inclusive
Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day
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livestream scheduled for June 24. The event was hosted by Kiara, a Montreal drag queen who also competed in the first season of ''
Canada's Drag Race
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'', and the performance lineup included comedians Tranna Wintour and Karl Hardy, actress and writer
Gabrielle Tremblay
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, songwriter and producer Annie Sama (Apigeon), rapper
Backxwash
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, singer-songwriter FLORAA, and drag queens Matante Alex and
Gisèle Lullaby
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Career
Originally from Boucherville, Quebec, Gosselin began as a ba ...
Exclaim!
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