Folk singer and songwriter Lucie Blue Tremblay, born in Montreal, first surfaced on the Canadian music landscape in the mid-1980s with material centered on peace, strength, and love and delivered in both English and French. As a child she took the stage drumming in her mother’s ensemble, later acquiring guitar and piano skills independently while developing her own compositions. Three prizes captured at the 1984 Festival de la Chanson de Granby in Quebec prompted the recording of her self-titled debut on the feminist imprint Olivia Records. Issued in 1986, the album brought notice throughout Canada and the United States, where the Boston Globe placed it among that year’s ten strongest releases. She sustained recording and touring activity across the ensuing decade, serving as a fervent yet nonviolent presence in feminist and LGBTQ circles through her calming sound. Stages shared with James Taylor and Randy Newman formed part of a wider itinerary that also reached France, Spain, Australia, and New Zealand. Two further Olivia releases preceded the establishment of her own Maggie & Shanti Musique label, which issued I’m Ready in 1997 and Because of You in 2003. After completing her sixth album, It’s Got to Be About Love, Tremblay devoted five years to joint projects with Lavender Visions Productions and P.O.P. Productions aimed at breast-cancer awareness, logging extensive North American miles aboard a motor coach. The campaign yielded the singular music video The Breast Exam Project in 2011. Over the next five years she paused live work and settled in the United States. A two-disc set of earlier material appeared in 2016 as When I Was a Puppy. One year later she resumed studio activity with Counting My Blessings, her first collection of new songs in thirteen years.
