Nicole Martin

Nicole Martin, a Quebec-born Francophone singer, songwriter, and producer working in adult pop, rose to peak prominence across Canada in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She entered the world on September 29, 1949, in Donnacona, Quebec, launched her recording career in 1967 as half of the duo Nicole et Frédéric, and shifted to solo work several years afterward. After inking a deal with Disques Campus, she issued her first solo single, “Tout Tourne et Tout Bouge,” on the imprint in 1971, then followed it with the full-length La Première Nuit d’Amour in 1972. Across her tenure there she ultimately delivered four studio albums, one of them a duet project with partner Jimmy Bond. In 1975, the same year she earned an award at France’s Festival de la Rose d’Or d’Antibes for her reading of “Ce Serait Dommage,” she moved to Disques Martin and debuted on that roster with the single “Les Femmes Chantent.” Her commercial breakthrough arrived late in the decade via the double-platinum releases Dix Ans de Ma Vie (1978) and Noël avec Nicole Martin (1979). In 1980 she established her own vanity imprint, Disques Nicole Martin, and began issuing self-produced efforts such as Laissez-Moi Chanter (1980), Une Affaire de Cœur (1982), and Histoires de Femmes (1986), all of which drew multiple Prix Félix nominations. Two years later she launched Les Disques Diva, through which she oversaw projects for Michel Louvain, Fernand Gignac, and additional artists; the longest-running success among those productions was the Ce Soir on Danse! series. After issuing Le Goût d’Aimer in 1991 and Un Noël d’Amour in 1993, she stepped away from solo recording for seventeen years before returning with Cocktail de Douceur in 2010.