Charlotte Cardin

Charlotte Cardin, a Montreal-born vocalist who entered the world in 1994 inside a French-speaking household, first explored medical studies and modeling work before committing to a singing career. She initially drew public notice as a 2013 contestant on the vocal competition La Voix, where she placed in the Top Four and later appeared on French singer Garou’s track “Du Vent des Mots.” Three years afterward she issued the EP Big Boy.

Her 2017 sophomore effort, Main Girl, appeared via Atlantic Records and secured Juno Award nominations for Breakthrough Artist of the Year plus Songwriter of the Year, the latter tied to the tracks “Main Girl,” “Paradise Motion,” and “The Kids.” Additional SOCAN songwriting nominations in both French and English categories recognized “Big Boy” and “Faufile.” In 2019 she joined producer CRi for a cover of Daniel Bélanger’s “Fous N’importe Où” and lent her voice to Loud’s “Sometimes, All the Time.”

Cardin launched the single “Passive Aggressive” in September 2020 as the opening preview of her debut full-length, Phoenix, which Jason Brando produced and which reached the summit of the Canadian Albums chart upon its April 2021 arrival. The project earned her four Juno Awards—Album of the Year, Pop Album of the Year, Artist of the Year, and Single of the Year for “Meaningless.” Throughout the first half of 2023 she issued the singles “Confetti” and “Looping” ahead of her second album, 99 Nights, which climbed to number three on the Canadian charts. A companion release, the bilingual EP Une Semaine à Paris, surfaced the same year and included piano renditions of “Confetti” and “Feel Good,” the Laylow collaboration “Real Love,” and the track “Un Peu Trop.” Further standalone singles followed in 2024, among them “Lonely with Our Love.”