Natasha St-Pier
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Background information | |
Birth name | Natasha St-Pier |
Born | Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada | 10 February 1981
Origin | Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada |
Genres | Pop, French pop, pop/rock, adult contemporary, dance |
Occupation(s) | Singer |
Years active | 1996–present |
Labels | Guy Cloutier Communications, Sony Music France |
Website | natasha-stpier |
Natasha St-Pier (born 10 February 1981) is a Canadian singer and songwriter of Acadian origin. She has spent most of her career in France, and represented France in the 2001 Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Je n'ai que mon âme" (English translation: "I have only my soul").
She began her professional career at a young age in Canada, bringing out her first single at the age of 12, followed by her first album (Émergence) in 1996, at the age of 15. Her international career was launched with the English version of the musical Notre-Dame de Paris, which played in Canada and the U.K. In the musical she sang the role of Fleur-de-Lys.
St-Pier has had considerable commercial success in francophone countries, including France, Canada, Belgium and Switzerland. She has also become popular in a number of other European countries, such as Poland, Russia and Turkey. Her Eurovision song ("Je n'ai que mon âme") reached second position on the charts in France and Belgium when released as a single in 2001. In the following year, her single "Tu trouveras" ('You will find') reached position no. 3 in France and Belgium, and position no. 1 in Quebec. In 2006, her single "Un ange frappe à ma porte" ('An angel is knocking at my door') reached no. 1 in Belgium and no. 2 in France. Her albums De l'amour le mieux (2002) and Longueur d'ondes (2006) also reached places 3 and 1 respectively in French album sales.
St-Pier was coach in the second and third season of The Voice Belgique (The Voice of Belgium).
Biography
[edit]Family background
[edit]Natasha St-Pier was born 10 February 1981 at Bathurst, New Brunswick (Canada) and grew up in Saint-Hilaire, New Brunswick, a small village in the valley of the Saint John River near Edmundston. Her father, Mario Saint-Pierre, was a primary school teacher who became teacher in a prison for minors and later director of the prison. Later he worked in the police and the river brigade.[1] He is now retired. Her mother, Rose-Marie Bard, an Acadienne, was a nurse.[1], before becoming director of a retirement home. She is also now in retirement. In April 2013, Natasha St-Pier stated during a broadcast of the radio programme Faites entrer l'invité (presented by Michel Drucker) that she is the great-great-great-great-niece of Pope Pius X.[2]
Career
[edit]St-Pier released her first album, Emergence, in 1996, produced by composer/producer Steve Barakatt. In 2000, she made her international singing debut as Fleur-de-Lys in the London version of the musical drama Notre Dame de Paris.
In 2001, St-Pier was chosen by the media network France 3 to represent France in the 2001 Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen. She sang the power ballad Je n'ai que mon âme, written and composed by Robert Goldman (as "Jill Kapler"), and came fourth in the competition. St-Pier released the song as a single the same year, and later an English version of the song: "All I Have Is My Soul".
By 2010, St-Pier had released 7 albums, topped the French album and singles charts, and made it to the top 10 of the Eurochart Hot 100.[citation needed] Her singles include Tu trouveras, Nos rendez-vous, Alors on se raccroche, Tant que c'est toi, Mourir demain, Un ange frappe à ma porte and Vivre d'amour. St Pier has become popular in francophone Europe, and in countries such as Poland and Russia.[citation needed] Her seventh album, Tu Trouveras: 10 Ans De Succès, which is largely a "Best of" compilation of her songs previously recorded, was released in November 2009. During 2010 she toured Canada, Belgium and France.
In 2004, Sony Music France released a Natasha St-Pier DVD, Un Instant Avec Natasha St-Pier, that included a video tour diary, a personal video dictionary, and seven music videos.[3]
St-Pier has recorded duos (and trios) with Pascal Obispo, Florent Pagny, Mickaël Miro, Anggun, Élisa Tovati, Sonia Lacen, Grégory Turpin, Les Stentors, Les Petits Chanteurs à la croix de bois, Jean-Michel Di Falco, Roch Voisine, Tony Carreira, Michel Fugain, Grégoire, Florent Mothe, Hélène Segara, Vincent Niclo, Anne Sila and Glorious, among others. She has also appeared in the troupe of Les Enfoirés.
On 9 March 2012, she married her boyfriend of a year and a half, Gregory Quillacq, a Parisian fireman, at a private ceremony in Lit-et-Mixe.[4]
Since September 2013, Natasha is the host of the television show "Les chansons d'abord" (Songs First) to France 3. She was also one of the commentators of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 for French television.[5] In October 2015 St-Pier, signed to the Smart label, released the album Mon Acadie, a collection of covers of traditional folk songs.
Musical style
[edit]Beginning 2001-2004, the French media began referring to St-Pier as one of the voix québécoises (Quebecois voices) at the centre of contemporary trends in popular music. Other singers grouped in this category included Isabelle Boulay, Céline Dion, Lara Fabian, Garou, Daniel Lavoie, Lynda Lemay, Bruno Pelletier and Roch Voisine. However, the musicologist Catherine Rudent concludes that only Boulay, Dion and Fabian truly resemble St-Pier in répertoire, voice and techniques of interpretation. These singers have in common a style inherited from soul music, in which expressive vocality takes priority over the text, making full use of registers of the chest and head, vocal ornamentation and improvisation.[6]
Personal life
[edit]In 2012, St-Pier married Grégory Quillacq (a member of the aquatic and subaquatic fire brigade of Paris), she has a son named Bixente Maxime, who underwent a successful heart operation.[7] She is a dietitian, vegetarian[8] and a Catholic. She is also a yoga teacher[9] and an occasional scuba diver. In 2021 she announced she and her husband were separated.
Discography
[edit]Albums
[edit]Studio albums
Year | Album | Charts | Certification | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BEL (WA) [10] |
FRA | SWI | QUE (Canada) | |||
1996 | Émergence | — | — | — | — | |
2001 | À chacun son histoire | 23 | 37 | — | — | France: Gold |
2002 | De l'amour le mieux | 3 | 3 | 12 | — | France: Double Platinum |
Encontrarás (Spanish version of De l'amour le mieux) |
— | — | — | — | ||
2003 | L'instant d'après | 6 | 3 | 14 | — | France: Platinum |
2006 | Longueur d’ondes | 2 | 1 | 11 | — | France: Gold |
2008 | Natasha St-Pier | 16 | 16 | 63 | — | |
2012 | Bonne nouvelle | 11 | 11 | 80 | — | |
2015 | Mon Acadie | 18 | 16 | 62 | 8 | |
2017 | L'alphabet des animaux | 68 | 44 | — | — | |
2018 | Thérèse de Lisieux – Aimer c'est tout donner | 55 | — | 40 | — | |
2020 | Croire | — | 31 [11] |
— | — | |
2022 | Jeanne | 113 | 52 [12] |
— | — | |
2023 | Christmas Album | 20 | 82 [13] |
— | — |
Rereleases / Compilations
Year | Album | Charts | Note | |
---|---|---|---|---|
BEL (WA) [10] |
FRA | |||
2001 | Je n'ai que mon âme | — | — | Compilation – Best of |
2003 | À chacun son histoire / L'instant d'après |
— | 102 | Double CD rerelease |
2004 | À chacun son histoire / De l'amour le mieux |
23 | 37 | Double CD rerelease |
2009 | Tu trouveras... 10 ans de succès | — | — | Compilation – Best of |
2010 | Natasha St-Pier / De l'amour le mieux |
— | 117 | Double CD rerelease |
Singles
[edit]Year | Title | Chart positions | Album | ||||
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BEL (Wa) |
FRA | SWI | TUR | QUE [14] | |||
2001 | "Je n'ai que mon âme" | 2 | 2 | — | — | — | À chacun son histoire |
"Tu m’envoles" | — | — | — | — | — | ||
2002 | "Tu trouveras" (with Pascal Obispo) |
3 | 3 | 20 | — | 1 | De l'amour le mieux |
2003 | "Nos rendez-vous" | 15 | 15 | 45 | — | — | |
"Alors on se raccroche" | — | 47 | 72 | — | — | ||
"Tant que c´est toi" | 5 | 11 | 31 | — | — | L'instant d'après | |
2004 | "Mourir demain" (with Pascal Obispo) |
4 | 7 | 18 | — | — | |
2005 | "Ce silence" (with Frédéric Chateau) |
25 | 28 | — | — | — | Longueur d'ondes |
2006 | "Un ange frappe à ma porte" | 1 | 2 | 19 | — | — | |
"Tant que j'existerai" | 23 | 36 | — | — | — | ||
2008 | "Embrasse-moi" | — | — | — | 12 | — | Natasha St-Pier |
"1, 2, 3" | — | — | — | 90 | — | ||
2009 | "L'instant T" | — | — | — | 73 | — | Tu trouveras... 10 ans de succès |
2012 | "Bonne nouvelle" | — | 194 | — | — | — | Bonne nouvelle |
2013 | "Vivre d'amour" (with Anggun) |
63 | 86 | — | — | — | Thérèse: Vivre d'amour |
Featured in
[edit]Year | Title | Chart positions | Album | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
BEL (Wa) |
FRA | SWI | QUE | |||
2007 | "Pour que tu sois libre (La rose Marie Claire)" (Leslie / Anggun / Jennifer McCray / Natasha St Pier / Elisa Tovati / Julie Zenatti) |
— | 21 | — | — | |
2013 | "Donne-moi le temps" (Segara / St Pier / Keim / Alizée / L'Orchestre Ostinato) |
45 | 99 | — | — | |
2014 | "Laissez-nous chanter" (live) (Goldman / Fiori / Clerc / Youn / Lorie / Laroque / Foly / Tal / Ségara / St-Pier / Nolwenn Leroy / Zazie) |
— | 196 | — | — |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Comme si c'était hier : Natasha St Pier : "Mon père ce héros !"". Première. 5 August 2011. Retrieved 16 August 2024..
- ^ "Faites entrer l'invité – Natasha St Pier". Europe1. 18 April 2013. Retrieved 16 August 2024..
- ^ Un Instant Avec Natasha St-Pier: COL 2027359-2027359000
- ^ (in French) People.premiere.fr ; Natasha St-Pier épouse son chéri français Archived 14 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ (in French) Chartsinfrance.net ; Natasha St-Pier News Archived 12 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Catherine Rudent: L’analyse musicale des chansons populaires phonographiques. Musique, musicologie et arts de la scène. Université Paris 4 Paris-Sorbonne, 2010.
- ^ "Natasha St-Pier : nouvelle photo de son fils Bixente, visiblement bien remis de son opération". Femme actuelle. 20 April 2016. Archived from the original on 4 August 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
- ^ "Interview : découvrez les secrets beauté de Natasha St Pier". Lci. 9 January 2010. Archived from the original on 24 September 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2018.
- ^ "Exclu – Natasha St-Pier se confie sur sa nouvelle vie "simple et belle", loin du showbiz". Gala. 31 July 2018. Archived from the original on 12 August 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
le yoga, (...), vise la même prise de conscience.
- ^ a b "Ultratop.be/fr/ – Natasha St-Pier albums discography". Ultratop. Archived from the original on 12 November 2022. Retrieved 31 December 2023.
- ^ "Top Albums (Week 34, 2020)" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. Archived from the original on 13 November 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
- ^ "Top Albums (Week 40, 2020)" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. Archived from the original on 8 October 2020. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
- ^ "Top Albums (Week 46, 2023)" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. Retrieved 6 November 2023.
- ^ "Playlist Palmarès Chansons no 1 au Québec années 2000 à 2020 - Musique populaire au Québec". Philouzone. 14 November 2023. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
External links
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- 1981 births
- Acadian musicians
- Eurovision Song Contest entrants for France
- Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 2001
- French-language singers of Canada
- Canadian expatriates in France
- Living people
- Musicians from Bathurst, New Brunswick
- Musicians from Edmundston
- Spanish-language singers of Canada
- Canadian women pop singers
- 20th-century Canadian women singers
- 21st-century Canadian women singers
- Canadian Roman Catholics
- Singers from New Brunswick