Featured Artists

Though rare, there are some artists who surprise us time and again by constantly revealing new facets of their immense talent.

Florence K is one of these artists. Since the launch of Live At Lion D’Or in 2005, the renowned Montreal musician continues to surprise, amaze and fascinate. With her two beautiful albums, Bossa Blue released in 2006 and La Historia De Lola in 2008, both of which have won Félix Awards for World Music Album of the Year, or with Havana Angels, her gorgeous Christmas opus recorded in Cuba that was a huge smash just after its release in 2010, Florence has always delivered something fresh and original. In 2013 she returned with I’m Leaving You, a refreshing new album, delivered with the same sincerity her fans have come to expect.

On this album, created mostly in Los Angeles in collaboration with Larry Klein, master producer who has worked with Joni Mitchell and Melody Gardot, Florence K took an elegant and organic musical twist. Her many trips to California allowed her to open herself up to new possibilities, to see her music from a different angle and to decide exactly what she wanted to say. Moments of inspiration came incessantly and inexhaustibly.

“We did all of the creative work, the writing, in Larry’s little studio in Santa Monica. I played the Wurlitzer, Larry the bass and songwriters David Bateau and David Baerwald took turns playing the guitar. In the end, we had 25 songs that could easily have made their way on to the album,” she recalls. “We listened, analyzed and mulled over ideas and sounds. In the end, we chose to record 10 songs.”

With these 10 songs, this remarkable artist, who has been surrounded by music from a very young age, drew on her personal experience to portray specific situations but also to illustrate ideas that would touch most listeners.

I’m Leaving You got Florence an ADISQ award nomination for Best Anglophone Album of the Year in 2014, and a Juno Award nomination for Breakthrough Artist of the Year.

In 2015, Florence published her first book, Buna Vida, the story of her journey through depression, which sold more than 20 000 copies, making it a Bestseller.

Following the publication of her book, Florence decided to adapt the human and literary experiences contained in its pages for the stage. Seated at her piano, accompanied by a guitarist, she threw wide the doors on this deeply personal journey to the limits of her being with fifteen new songs which have been recorded on the album Buena Vida en concert.

In 2016, she teamed up with Matt Dusk and recorded Quiet Nights, a jazz duet album which remained 16 weeks on the Top Ten Jazz charts and earned the pair a Juno Award nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Performance in 2017.

Florence is currently in the process of writing her first fiction novel, which will come out in November 2017, and on her next album which is due in early 2018.

She is also the host of Ici Florence, her very unique radio show which airs every week on Ici Musique, for the 6^th year in a row.

A devoted pianist, singer, songwriter, writer, radio host, mother, Florence is passionate about music and about everything that surrounds it and will continue to surprise us with her own for many years to come!