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Shortly after winning top honors at the Festival international de la chanson de Granby, Lisa LeBlanc released her debut album in 2012, simply entitled Lisa LeBlanc. The album was phenomenally well received, with an undeniable enthusiasm for the Acadian singer's stripped-down, raw songs and roots-rock-country mix. In the wake of its release, she wins the Revelation of the Year award at the ADISQ gala, the Revelation of the Year award at the GAMIQ and the Revelation Music award from Radio-Canada. 2014 saw the release of Highways, Heartaches and Time Well Wasted, followed two years later by Why You Wanna Leave Runaway Queen? which was nominated for a shortlisting at the Polaris Prize. On both these albums she chose English, thus expanding her creative potential and opening up to new audiences. All three albums sold over 140,000 copies.

Moving as easily from Dawson City to Caraquet as from Paris to Lafayette, Lisa and her musicians toured virtually non-stop over the next few years.

Moving as easily from Dawson City to Caraquet as from Paris to Lafayette, Lisa and her musicians toured virtually non-stop over the next few years. She takes a break in 2019 to let this whirlwind period of non-stop touring settle down, but still takes the opportunity to travel and write. She co-produced the debut album by Nova Scotian Jacques Surette, and then produced Édith Butler's 25th long-player, Le tour du Grand Bois, enabling her to further broaden her musical horizons and blossom as a musician, while putting her talents, creativity and passion at the service of others.

Halfway between a joke and a tribute, the EP It's not a game it's a lifestyle, on which she personifies Belinda, her bingokitsch alter ego, was released in June 2020. The musical project, which flirts with disco dance, in a way sets the table for what's to come. In 2022, she re-emerges with a sparkling new original album, Chiac Disco, co-produced with her accomplice Benoît Morier. A breath of life filled with resounding bursts, melodies thrown into the air in a pure gesture of liberation, the record is a salute to the memory of Lee Hazlewood, to the chic disco years and to funk. Surrounded by Mico Roy, Benoît Morier and Léandre Bourgeois, Lisa wanted to give free rein to the musicians' ideas and virtuosity, in a spirit of sharing and collaboration. Recorded at home, somewhere between the living room and the basement, the album, with its sometimes Sixties, sometimes Seventies sounds, marks Lisa's return to French, and features the improbable meeting of disco and chiac, a sort of cultural patchwork where one foot dances in disco-rural, the other in chiac-glamour; an album that's bright and bright, funny and boisterous, set with musical glitter of all kinds and multicolored phrases sung loud and clear, without complex. Chiac Disco once again earns him a place on the shortlist of the Polaris, as well as Félix awards in the categories Record Release of the Year (with loyal collaborator Benoit Morier) and Pop Album of the Year.