Since she was very young, Marie-Ève Laure, also known as Marie-Ève Lapierre, has always been passionate regarding music, but it was at the end of her participation in the fourth season of “La Voix which gave him the motivation to turn his passion into a profession.
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“It’s simple, it all started there for me. I had never taken the leap of doing only music professionally, I was giving singing lessons, but that was it. I didn’t see the possibility of making music full-time before that, ”revealed this who made it to the live stage during a telephone interview with the QMI Agency.
“Seeing myself on television, I realized that it was really hard, a scene that I am best at, that’s where I want to build the next years of my career and that’s where one thing led to another. from this experience everything is built for me”, she added, specifying that it was there that she met the director of these first two albums, Jean-François Beaudet.
Her appearance on the show was not the first, however, as she participated in the Star Académie album auditions in 2011 at the age of 19. However, she did not go further in the competition. “All my life it was clear that I was going to do this, it was just the path I was going to take that was not yet defined,” said the musician, chuckling.
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Although she lived most of her life in Sainte-Thérèse, the one who is known as Marie-Ève Laure (a pseudonym to recall the St. Lawrence River), never put her origins aside. madeliniennes.
“My Lapierre grandparents were born in the Islands so I already had an attachment that I wanted to rediscover one day in my creation. I didn’t think it was going to happen so quickly, but the pandemic accelerated things and led me to settle here, ”confirmed the one who lives today in the vicinity of Havre-Aubert.
A little before the pandemic, in September 2019, she launched a first album of original songs, “Onze”, a tribute to the greater region of Gaspésie and the Magdalen Islands. This first opus achieved good critical success, with, among other things, an ADISQ nomination for Album of the Year – Country in 2020.
Then at the end of that year everything stops. She takes a few weeks to withdraw from public space due to burnout. “I thought it was important to name my situation here so that one day taboos can be erased for good when it comes to mental health,” she wrote on Facebook.
2022, the year of a strong comeback
It definitely came back in force during the following months, first with a passage noticed during the French edition of “La Voix”. “What first motivated me on the show was that I was clearly going to have fun,” she said. No coach has selected it, but she has fond memories of it.
Then, a few months later, in November, she launched a second album, “Reviens”, an album recounting her new balance between Montreal, her workplace, and her Madelinot hometown.
“The Islands are a constant source of inspiration, it’s my balance and I need to find myself here”, underlined the one who is currently in writing residency for another project that she does not know. will be musical or not. “Words are really my passion and I like to explore poetry, writing novels, short stories, all that is in my aspirations eventually,” mentioned the musician, very optimistic for the future.