Biography
A Canadian electronic musician and producer known as CRi, or Christophe Dubé, crafts a style blending dreamy textures with catchy dance-pop and dubstep rhythms. He first drew broad notice through his Juno-nominated 2017 EP Someone Else and the similarly honored 2019 full-length Juvenile before releasing his second album, Miracles, in 2023.
Rooted in Quebec, Dubé previously performed with the hip-hop collective Feuilles et Racines prior to launching his individual path. He introduced the CRi moniker via the 2013 EP Eclipse and followed it with Oda in 2014. Additional releases arrived in the form of 2016’s Tell Her and the 2017 project Someone Else, the latter receiving a Juno Award nod in the Electronic Album of the Year category; Initial became his fourth EP when it surfaced in 2019.
That same year he teamed with vocalist Charlotte Cardin on a reinterpretation of Daniel Bélanger’s “Fous N’importe Où,” a recording later featured on CRi’s 2020 debut album Juvenile, which also included a Bélanger appearance on the track “Signal.” Juvenile secured Dubé’s second Juno nomination for Electronic Album of the Year. In 2022 he became the first electronic act to top the bill at the Montreal Jazz Festival, and the following year he issued his sophomore LP Miracles. Fronted by the single “I Can Make It,” the record brought together Jesse Mac Cormack, Sophia Bel, singer Klô Pelgag, indie folk group Half Moon Run, and London duo Everyone You Know.
Rooted in Quebec, Dubé previously performed with the hip-hop collective Feuilles et Racines prior to launching his individual path. He introduced the CRi moniker via the 2013 EP Eclipse and followed it with Oda in 2014. Additional releases arrived in the form of 2016’s Tell Her and the 2017 project Someone Else, the latter receiving a Juno Award nod in the Electronic Album of the Year category; Initial became his fourth EP when it surfaced in 2019.
That same year he teamed with vocalist Charlotte Cardin on a reinterpretation of Daniel Bélanger’s “Fous N’importe Où,” a recording later featured on CRi’s 2020 debut album Juvenile, which also included a Bélanger appearance on the track “Signal.” Juvenile secured Dubé’s second Juno nomination for Electronic Album of the Year. In 2022 he became the first electronic act to top the bill at the Montreal Jazz Festival, and the following year he issued his sophomore LP Miracles. Fronted by the single “I Can Make It,” the record brought together Jesse Mac Cormack, Sophia Bel, singer Klô Pelgag, indie folk group Half Moon Run, and London duo Everyone You Know.
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