Catherine Major

Catherine Major (born February 18, 1980) is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter from Quebec.^[1] She is most noted for her 2011 album Le désert des solitudes, which was a Juno Award nominee for Francophone Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2012.^[2]

Catherine Major
Catherine Major performing with Daniel Lavoie at the Francofolies de Montréal in 2013.
Background information
Born	(1980-02-18)February 18, 1980 Outremont, Quebec, Canada
Genres	Chanson, pop
Occupation	Singer
Instrument	Vocals
Years active	2010s-present

Originally from Outremont, she studied piano in childhood. She released her debut album Par-dessus bord, in 2004^[3] and toured to support the album as an opening act for Richard Desjardins.^[4] In 2007 she composed music for Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette's film The Ring (Le Ring), for which she won the Jutra Award for Best Original Music at the 10th Jutra Awards.^[4] The following year she released her second album, Rose sang.^[4]

Le désert des solitudes was released in 2011.^[5] In 2012, she received a second Jutra nomination for Best Original Music, for her work on Micheline Lanctôt's film For the Love of God (Pour l'amour de Dieu).^[6]

Her fourth album, La maison du monde, followed in 2015.^[7]

In 2019, she participated alongside Ginette Reno, Diane Dufresne, Céline Dion, Isabelle Boulay, Luce Dufault, Louise Forestier, Laurence Jalbert, Ariane Moffatt, Marie Denise Pelletier and Marie-Élaine Thibert in a supergroup recording of Renée Claude's "Tu trouveras la paix", as a charitable fundraiser for Alzheimer's disease research after Claude's diagnosis with Alzheimer's was announced.^[8] Later the same year she performed a show with the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, premiering several new songs from her forthcoming fifth album.^[9] The album, Carte mère, was released in 2020.^[10]