Marie-Ève Laure, also known as Marie-Ève Lapierre, has been passionate about music since her earliest youth, but it wasn’t until the end of her participation in the fourth season of “La Voix” that it caught his breath Motivation to turn your passion into a career.
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“Quite simply, it all started for me. I had never taken the plunge into just making music professionally, I gave singing lessons but that was about it. I didn’t see an opportunity to make music full-time before,” revealed the man who went live on stage in a telephone interview with the agency QMI.
“When I saw myself on TV I realized that there’s really a stage that I’m best at, that’s where I want to build the next few years of my career and that’s where everything was gradually built for me from that experience,” she added and specified that this is how she met the director of these first two albums, Jean-François Beaudet.
Her appearance on the show wasn’t her first, however, as she attended the Star Académie album auditions in 2011 at the age of 19. However, she did not advance in the competition. “All my life it was clear that I would do it, it was just the way I would go that was not yet defined,” says the musician with a smile.
Back to the source
Although she spent most of her life in Sainte-Thérèse, the one known as Marie-Ève Laure (a pseudonym commemorating the Saint Lawrence River) never put aside her origins.
“My Lapierre grandparents were born in the islands, so I already had a bond that I wanted to rediscover in my creation one day. I didn’t think it would happen so quickly, but the pandemic has accelerated things and made me settle here,” confirmed the one who now lives near Havre-Aubert.
Just before the pandemic, in September 2019, she released a first album of original songs, Onze, a tribute to the greater Gaspésie and Îles-de-la-Madeleine region. This first opus achieved good critical acclaim, including an ADISQ nomination for Album of the Year, Country in 2020.
Then, at the end of the year, everything stops. It takes her a few weeks to retire from public speaking because of burnout. “I felt it was important to state my situation here so that one day mental health taboos can be finally erased,” she wrote on Facebook.
2022, the year of a strong comeback
It definitely came back into force in the months that followed, first with a notable passage during the French edition of La Voix. “What first motivated me about the show was that I was definitely going to have fun,” she said. No coach picked it, but she has fond memories of it.
Then a few months later, in November, she released her second album, Reviens, an album that tells of her new balance between Montreal, her workplace, and her hometown of Madelinot.
“The islands are a constant source of inspiration, they are my balance and I need to find myself here,” emphasized the one who is currently writing a residency for another project, which she doesn’t know if it will be musical or not. “Words are really my passion and I like exploring poetry, writing novels, short stories, all of that is my goal after all,” said the musician, very optimistic about the future.