Lisa LeBlanc

Canadian singer-songwriter and banjoist Lisa LeBlanc was born in the French-speaking community of Rosaireville, New Brunswick, Canada on August 13, 1990. She thrust herself onto the local live music scene and became known as a top-rate guitarist with bags of songwriter potential. After winning the Festival International de la Chanson in Granby in September 2010, as well as playing at the 2011 Coup de Cœur Francophone, at the FrancoFolies of Montreal, and at the Festival d'été de Québec, she launched herself as a singer-songwriter with her self-titled debut album in 2013 for Bonsound Records, honing her self-described style of "trash folk" which paid its dues to her Acadian heritage. Produced by Louis-Jean Cormier, the album went to Number 8 in Canada and was certified platinum, spawning the popular single "Aujourd'hui ma vie c'est d'la marde" ("Today My Life Is Shit") single. Her second and third albums, 2014's English-language Highways, Heartaches and Time Well Wasted and 2016's Why You Wanna Leave, Runaway Queen? both charted in the Canadian Top 10 with the latter entering the shortlist for Canada's prestigious 2017 Polaris Music Prize. Why You Wanna Leave, Runaway Queen?, featured a mixture of French and English songs including a thrash-folk cover of Motörhead's "Ace of Spades". In 2020, Lisa LeBlanc christened her new Belinda pseudonym with a five-track disco EP about bingo. She released the follow-up, Chiac Disco, in March 2022 and went to Number 24 in Canada.

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