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Marie Carmen, born Marie Aubut on August 24, 1959 in Sainte-Foy (Canada), is a pop-rock singer from Quebec. She began her career with the group Accident in 1980. Over the next two years, she was a member of the bands Blood and Marie, as well as Radio Rats. In 1983, she released her first single with the group Cinéma X, " Pauvre star ", which received extensive airplay on Quebec radio. The same year, she worked as a backing singer on Claude Dubois's album Implosif . In 1985, she toured with The Box as a backing singer. In 1986, Luc Plamondon offered her the role of Marie-Jeanne in the rock opera Starmania. The following year, she recorded her first solo single, " Piaf chanterait du rock ". In 1988, she joined the musical revue Vis ta vinaigrette. A year later, she released her first album, Dans la Peau. Several songs from this album reached the top 10 of music radio in Quebec, including the title track, " Faut pas que j'panique " and " T'oublier ". Her second album, Miel Et Venin , was released in 1992. Her cover of French singer Barbara's " L'Aigle noir " reached number one for several weeks. In 1993, she duetted with singer Murray Head on the song " Un Homme, une femme ". In 1994, she opened for singer Michel Sardou at the Olympia in Paris. Her third album, L'Une , was released in 1995, with three songs that reached #1 on the radio: " J'ai l'blues de vous " (3 weeks), " Je t'aime mal " (3 weeks) and " Je veux qu'tu m'aimes " (1 week). In 1998, she recorded the album ...L'Autre , which included a cover of the song " J'veux d'la tendresse ". In the 2000s, she suffered a breakdown that took her away from showbiz, and she subsequently went on a humanitarian mission to Peru. Back in Quebec, she released a new album in 2008, Le Diamant, and two songs from it reached the radio charts: " L'Île au trésor " and " Une Vie douce ". In winter 2020, in the company of Joe Bocan and Marie-Denise Pelletier, she launches the Pour une Histoire d'un Soir tour, featuring the great songs of these three '90s singers in the same show.
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