Jorane Pelletier (born October 12, 1975),[1] known professionally as Jorane, is a French-Canadian singer/cellist, who performs pop and alternative music style on the cello, a typically classical instrument, while singing at the same time.[2] She has released eight full-length studio albums to date.
Career
Jorane worked with
Sarah McLachlan for her record Afterglow. In 2004, the press also reported that Jorane would appear on a
Halloween special of the television series ZeD to perform a "witchy acid cello".[3] That year she released her first album in English, The You and the Now;[4] she toured across Canada as well as in the United States and Europe in support of the album.[5]
Jorane released an album of music with French lyrics, Vers à soi, in 2007.[5] In July that year she performed an improvised piece to accompany the images she was presented with on a large screen, in Montréal as part of "Montréal Terre", a sister concert of the Live Earth concerts.[6]
Jorane's 2011 album Une sorcière comme les autres included consisted of cover songs, and the arrangements included ukulele and glockenspiel.[7] The next summer she performed at the Montreal Jazz Festival.[8]
Jorane composed the
film score for films including Kamataki (2005) and Louis Cyr (2013),[9] and for the play Le journal d'Anne Frank.[10] In 2019 she performed as part of the festival Santa Teresa near Montreal.[11] She received two
Jutra Award nominations for
Best Original Music at the
9th Jutra Awards in 2007 for her work on Kamataki and A Sunday in Kigali (Un dimanche à Kigali), winning the award for the latter film.[12]
Discography
Vent fou (1999)
16mm (2000)
Live au Spectrum (2002)
Evapore (2003)
The You and the Now (2004)
Canvas or Canvass (internet project) (2007)
Vers à soi (2007)
Dix (2008)
Une sorcière comme les autres (2011)
L'Instant aimé (2012)
Mélopée (2014)
Hemenetset Pt.1 – EP (2019)
Awards and nominations
Album de l'année – Rock, Vent fou, Trophée Félix (Gala de l'ADISQ 2000) (Nominated)[13]
Interprète féminine de l'année, Trophée Félix (Gala de l'ADISQ 2000) (Nominated)[13]
Révélation de l'année, Trophée Félix (Gala de l'ADISQ 2000) (Nominated)[13]
Best New Solo Artist, JUNO Awards 2000 (Nominated)[14][15]
Francophone Album of the Year, Vers à soi, JUNO Awards 2008 (Nominated)[14]
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abc"Artistique 2000". Gala ADISQ Archives. Association québécoise de l'industrie du disque, du spectacle et de la vidéo (ADISQ). Retrieved August 9, 2016.
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ab"Jorane (Awards and Nominations)". The JUNO Awards. The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS). Retrieved August 9, 2016.