Carole Laure

Biography

Carole Laure (born Carole Champagne; August 5, 1948) is a Canadian singer, actress, and filmmaker from Quebec.

Early life

Laure was born in Montreal in 1948. Both of her parents were killed in accident two weeks after her birth, and she was adopted by a family in Shawinigan. She was raised Roman Catholic, and attended a Ursuline convent, where she learned piano.

Singing career

Laure debuted as a singer on the album Alibis×Alibis1979 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 13 tracks1Baci, baci3:102Joue moi un tango3:033Croque la lune2:554Tango de Lorca2:385J’ai une chanson3:486Scènes du train4:517La Chanson des voleurs5:258La Valse de l’oubli3:439Tout le monde dit3:4510Les Iguanes2:4411Vole pigeon vole5:0212Lullabaye4:0713Bring a Tango3:02 in 1978.
In 1989, she devoted an acoustic-oriented bilingual album, Western Shadows×Western Shadows1989 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 14 tracks1Stand by Your Man4:032Anybody With the Blues3:403Danse avant de tomber3:474Seven Year Ache3:165Quand le soleil dit bonjour aux montagnes2:136To Know Him is to Love Him5:397Baby You're Something3:018Someone Like You3:559Baby Lay Down3:1710One of These Days3:3211Sorry5:2212Y'a qu'elle3:4313Save the Last Dance for Me3:4814Coming Back to You3:40, to country and western standards. The album featured cover versions of Tammy Wynette's "Stand by Your Man", Phil Spector's "To Know Him Is to Love Him", Rosanne Cash's "Seven Year Ache", and Leonard Cohen's "Coming Back to You". The video for "Danse avant de tomber" (a cover of Boris Bergman's French adaptation of Doc Pomus' "Save the Last Dance for Me") featured dancer Louise Lecavalier of the internationally famous Québec contemporary dance troupe La La La Human Steps.
For her 1991 album She Says Move On×She Says Move On1991 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 12 tracks1Butterfly (Perds ton temps)5:072Springtime in Paris5:453She Says Move On5:314Purple Haze3:015Mama's Going to War5:336Hold On6:067Fade Out to Black5:178Little Red Dress6:279You Can Be (Reckless)4:1110Power on Line3:3211She Says Love Me5:0912Mirage Geisho3:28, she recorded a cover version of Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze".
She switched from acoustic to electronic music on her 1997 French-language album Sentiments naturels×Sentiments naturels1997 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 13 tracks1Passe de toi4:262Sentiments naturels4:513La Fantôme2:534Lieu obscur4:315Garçon doré5:106Dormir3:217Amandine3:588Dans la nuit4:449Préssentiments3:5210À ce soir3:5311Ma différence4:2412Chanter pour toi (mix aigre-doux)6:1513Sentiments naturels (Tee's in House Freeze and Frozen Sun Mix)4:39. The album featured club-oriented genres such as techno, house, and trip hop, and collaborators included Dimitri from Paris, Mirwais, Shazz, DJ Cam, and Todd Terry. Laure was also named in the songwriting credits.

Acting career

Laure is also a film actress, appearing in a number of Canadian-produced films, including the controversial 1974 release by Dušan Makavejev Sweet Movie, which was notable for both its sexual explicitness and scatology. Laure and Furey were frequent co-stars in the films of Gilles Carle, most notably, L'Ange et la femme (1977) and Fantastica (1980). She also stars alongside Pelé, Sylvester Stallone and Michael Caine in the 1981 film Escape to Victory. She acted in several movies with Nick Mancuso, which included Maria Chapdelaine (1983), Heartbreakers (1984), and Night Magic (1985).

Personal life

Throughout most of her career, Carole Laure primarily collaborated with Anglophone singer, songwriter, producer, and director Lewis Furey, whom she met in 1977 and who later became her husband.

Honours

Laure was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2013, "For her international career as an actress, singer, director and dancer."

Albums

Alibis (1978)
Carole Laure/Lewis Furey Fantastica (1980)
Carole Laure/Lewis Furey Enregistrement public au Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin (1982)
Carole Laure/Lewis Furey Night Magic (1985)
Western Shadows (1989)
She Says Move On (1991)
Sentiments naturels (1997)
Collection Légende (1999)

Singles

"J'ai une chanson" (1978)
"See you Monday" (with Lewis Furey) (1979)
"Fantastica" (with Lewis Furey) (1980)
"I should have known / Slowly, I married her" (with Lewis Furey) (1982)
"Danse avant de tomber" (1989)
"Anybody with the Blues" (1990)
"She says move on×She Says Move On1991 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 12 tracks1Butterfly (Perds ton temps)5:072Springtime in Paris5:453She Says Move On5:314Purple Haze3:015Mama's Going to War5:336Hold On6:067Fade Out to Black5:178Little Red Dress6:279You Can Be (Reckless)4:1110Power on Line3:3211She Says Love Me5:0912Mirage Geisho3:28" (1991)
"Perds ton temps" (1992)
"Mirage Geisho" (New version) (1993)
"Passe de toi" (1996)
"Sentiments naturels×Sentiments naturels1997 · Studio albumSpotify (search)YouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 13 tracks1Passe de toi4:262Sentiments naturels4:513La Fantôme2:534Lieu obscur4:315Garçon doré5:106Dormir3:217Amandine3:588Dans la nuit4:449Préssentiments3:5210À ce soir3:5311Ma différence4:2412Chanter pour toi (mix aigre-doux)6:1513Sentiments naturels (Tee's in House Freeze and Frozen Sun Mix)4:39" (1997)
"Dormir" (Sampler) (1997)