Lisa LeBlanc’s debut album, filled with delicious Acadian slang, made the Canadian Billboard Album Chart’s Top 10. Like Mia Martina, LeBlanc grew up in a very small village in New Brunswick. Her style of music is completely different from Martina’s, however. I’ll hand things over to Duncan with a write up about her and her very successful album, followed by a music video.
Lisa Leblanc, an Acadian of 21 years old, hails from Rosaireville, New Brunswick, with a population of 40. She studied at l’École nationale de la chanson at Granby and also at Montreal, where she has lived for one year. She wrote all the songs on her first album, entitled Lisa Leblanc, which came out this March. She calls her style folk trash, which according to the Montreal daily newspaper La Presse, is country-folk-rock. According to Bob Mersereau at CBC, “LeBlanc is a whirlwind on banjo, guitar and vocals. She’s a force, a dynamo, ripping into the songs with gusto, humour and joy.” Her website says “with her energy, her joie de vivre, her charisma, her sincerity and to be sure her great voice and music, her goal is simple: sing as much as possible”. She has already given 200 shows across Canada, and in France and Switzerland. She likes her songs simple and raw in lyrics and music, often with only her voice, a banjo and/or guitar. A Montreal newspaper Le Devoir reporter compares his interview with her to what a journalist would have had with Janis Joplin at the beginning of her career. Indeed her style is similar to Janis Joplin in many ways, only in French, which some English words here and there.
Lisa LeBlanc Official Website
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