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A singer-songwriter with a career spanning a decade, Caroline Savoie shines while portraying love and truth.

Her story first started with The Voice in France but it leads elsewhere. Between her big win at the Festival International de la chanson de Granby in 2015 and the release of two well-received albums - Caroline Savoie (2016) and Pourchasser l'aube (2019), respectively produced by Jay Newland (Norah Jones, Etta James) and Philippe Brault - the pop and indie-rock artist has paved her way generously.

With over five hundred shows across Canada, the United States and Europe - alongside Daniel Lavoie, Francis Cabrel, Paul Piché, Les Sœurs Boulay and Émile Bilodeau just to name a few -, and after receiving the Édith Butler award from the SPACQ Foundation, two awards at the Gala des prix Trille Or, four nominations for the Prix de la musique de la Côte est and a spot among the finalists for the Félix-Leclerc award, Caroline Savoie has crafted an enviable resume for herself. However, here’s the twist: what should be done when the profuse experience gained early on in life and the need to reclaim one's self happen to overlap? For the young woman, the question quickly became an opportunity to reflect on her aspirations.

On her new album, released on September 23rd with Montreal-based label Simone Records, the singer-songwriter jumps in and makes meaningful decisions for both her music and herself as an artist. While the past two years have forced their slow pace on everybody, the musician found answers in solitude, which gave her a chance to take a good look at herself. The Acadian coast appears like a microcosm with its own flowing history. After years spent in Montreal, Caroline Savoie returned to her home region and while renewing with its quiet yet tormented landscapes she came to realize that her true happiness does not require the fireworks she had become accustomed to. Some people say that lack creates a craving.

For the artist, it all comes down to a desire to build something different. Her wish for a return to roots meets her thirst for new beginnings. Due to the pandemic, she had plenty of time to decelerate, to let her songs simmer and come to life slowly. These personal and well-anchored new songs don’t fail to emerge as the very embodiment of her new appetite for independence.
Through meticulously thought out collaborations woven in an authentic love of the Canadian East Coast, she surrounds herself with Joe Grass as producer, with multiinstrumentalists François Lafontaine, Marco Gosselin and Donald O'Brien as well as with Lisa Leblanc, the Hay Babies (Julie Aubé, Vivianne Roy, Katrine Noël) and Chloe Brault on backing vocals.

Beyond all this, some things simply don’t change. Both light and powerful, Caroline Savoie's voice touches people everywhere she goes. This was true before, it is true now, and the effect still surprises her even after all these years. What is also surprising is the unique, beautiful coexistence of melancholy, clearly audible in her singing tone, and of these cascades of energy and laughter that appear whenever she starts talking. The beauty of it all is that, nowadays, she precisely gives herself the right to exist in all of her contradictions. She also let herself reflect simply and spontaneously, be amazed by the music just like when she first started playing it and work to leave a mark of her own. Truth be told: the time has now come to take the reins and she is doing it.