Lynda Lemay

Lynda Lemay, concert in Carcassonne in July 2007

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Lynda Lemay   CA 13  gold 02/28/1998 (2 weeks)   FR 42  × 2 Double gold 02/06/1999 (43 weeks) live   CH 56 05/14/2000 (15 weeks)   CA 13  gold 02/13/1999 (1 week)   FR 2  × 2 Double platinum 04/17/1999 (55 weeks) You coq à l'âme   CH 29 11/12/2000 (16 weeks)   CA 12  gold 11/11/2000 (1 week)   FR 1  × 2 Double platinum October 28, 2000 (78 weeks) Nos rêves   FR 116  gold 07/14/2001 (3 weeks) Double elle   FR 25th 11/03/2001 (10 weeks) Les lettres rouges   CH 5  gold 04/28/2002 (18 weeks)   FR 1  × 2 Double platinum 04/20/2002 (57 weeks) Les secrets des oiseaux   CH 13 11/16/2003 (11 weeks)   CA 5 05/25/2002 (1 week)   FR 2  platinum 11/02/2003 (48 weeks) Des secrets & des lettres   FR 20th 01/09/2005 (9 weeks) Un paradis quelque part   CH 5 03/06/2005 (12 weeks)   FR 1  platinum 02/20/2005 (45 weeks) Un éternel hiver   CH 29 03/12/2006 (4 weeks)   FR 22nd 02/25/2006 (12 weeks) Ma signature   CH 16  gold 11/26/2006 (14 weeks)   FR 2  gold 11/18/2006 (28 weeks) Allo c'est moi   CH 16  gold 11/23/2008 (9 weeks)   FR 5  gold 11/08/2008 (23 weeks) Blessée   CH 22nd 09/19/2010 (8 weeks)   CA 9 09/25/2010 (1 week)   FR 3  gold 09/11/2010 (24 weeks) Best of   CH 41 09/18/2011 (7 weeks)   CA 11 09/24/2011 (2 weeks)   FR 19th 09/10/2011 (16 weeks) Feutres et pastels   CH 14th 06.10.2013 (6 weeks)   CA 20th 10/12/2013 (1 week)   FR 5  gold 09/28/2013 (32 weeks) Décibels et des silences   CH 11 10/02/2016 (7 weeks)   CA 33 10/15/2016 (2 weeks)   FR 5 10/01/2016 (18 weeks)

Lynda Lemay (born July 25, 1966 in Portneuf , Québec ) is a French-speaking Canadian singer .

Live and act

Lemay always describes herself in her songs as Quebecer ("québecoise") and explicitly rejects the designation of Quebec's residents as "Canadians". Her music is more text-heavy and often tells little stories from everyday life. On July 22, 2006, their daughter Ruby was born, whose father is the American Michael Weisinger, to whom Lemay has been married since summer 2005. The singer has another daughter from the divorced marriage with comedian and actor Patrick Huard .

She wrote her first "Chansons" at the age of nine ( Dad, are you there? ). At 18 she began studying literature, wrote a novel and discovered her interest in the piano. Her greatest musical role model is the French rock star Johnny Hallyday . In 1988 she had her first major successes and won in 1989 at the renowned Granby Chanson Festival. With the support of Charles Aznavour, she also managed to gain fame outside of Canada. Since then she has received numerous prizes in Québec and France (e.g. the "Sentier des Halles" award in 1995 or the award for best female performer of 2003 at the "Victoires de la musique").

The lyrics of their songs are often characterized by a mixture of despair and (self) irony; the concerns of single mothers are often mentioned, and occasionally the identity of Quebecers. Lemay's most recently released album ( Ma Signature ) achieved gold status in France and represents a return to the origins of her career, i.e. acoustic guitar sounds and poetic lyrics. In total, she has now sold over three million albums in French-speaking countries, which makes Lynda Lemay one of the most successful French-Canadian musicians. Since February 2007 she has been on her tour C'est que du bois in France, Québec, Switzerland and Belgium. Lynda Lemay's fortieth appearance in the famous Olympic Hall in Paris was released on DVD in November 2007. Gerard Pullicino was won over to realize this project.

Discography

• 1990: Nos rêves
• 1994: Y
• 1995: La visite
• 1996: Lynda Lemay
• 1998: Lynda Lemay
• 1999: Live
• 2000: You coq à l'âme
• 2002: Les lettres rouges
• 2003: les secrets des oiseaux
• 2005: Un paradis quelque part
• 2006: Un éternel hiver (folk opera)
• 2006: Ma Signature
• 2007: 40/40 (DVD)
• 2008: Allo, c'est moi
• 2010: Blessée
• 2011: Best Of
• 2013: Feutres et pastels
• 2016: Décibels et des silences

Awards for music sales

Golden record  France 2001: for the album Nouveaute  Canada 2002: for the album Les Lettres Rouges 2 × gold record  France 2002: for the album Lynda Lemay 96

2 × platinum record  France 2007: for the album 40/40  Canada 1998: for the album Y

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
France (SNEP)	10 × gold10	10 × platinum10	2,565,000	infodisc.fr snepmusique.com
Canada (MC)	4 × gold4th	2 × platinum2	400,000	musiccanada.com
Switzerland (IFPI)	3 × gold3	-	50,000	hitparade.ch
All in all	17 × gold17th	12 × platinum12

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1. ↑ Chart sources: CH CA FR

Web links

Commons : Lynda Lemay  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official site
• Fan club
• German-speaking fansite