Isabelle Pierre
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Born Nicole Lapointe on June 9, 1944 in Rouyn-Noranda (Canada), Isabelle Pierre is a pop singer from Quebec. She studied at the Ãcole des Beaux-Arts de Montréal to become a draughtswoman from 1955 to 1959. She won a contest for amateur singers in the early 1960s and toured the boîtes à chansons. At the end of 1963, she sang on the Radio-Canada television program Les Couche-Tard . She released her first album, Vol. 1 , in 1965, then turned to radio from 1968 to 1970, hosting the program Samedi-Jeunesse . She scored her first radio hit in 1969 with a cover of Frida Boccara's song " Cent Mille Chansons ". She met composer Stéphane Venne in the early 1970s, who brought her several hits in the following years. Isabelle Pierre released the opus Heureuse in 1970, placing three songs in the Quebec radio charts with " Ãvangeline ", " L'Hymne à la joie " and " Les Enfants de l'avenir ". That same year, she opened for Claude Léveillée at Place des Arts in Montreal. The following year, she released the album Le Temps Est Bon , also a success, with the title track and the song " Si tu m'aimes ". In 1972, she represented Canada at the Spa Festival with Claude Gauthier. In 1973, a compilation of her hits entitled Ballade Pour Sergio Leone is released. She releases an album in 1974, under her birth name, called J'M'Appelle Nicole Lapointe . In 2018, the song " Le Temps est bon " was remixed by the Bon Entendeur music collective.
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