Biography
Carole Laure OC (born Carole Champagne; August 5, 1948) is a Canadian singer, actress, and filmmaker from Quebec.
Singing career
Laure debuted as a singer on the album Alibis in 1978.
In 1989, she devoted an acoustic-oriented bilingual album, Western Shadows, to country and western standards. The album featured cover versions of Tammy Wynette's “Stand by Your Man”, Phil Spector's “To Know Him Is to Love Him”, Rosanne Cash's “Seven Year Ache”, and Leonard Cohen's “Coming Back to You”. The video for “Danse avant de tomber” (a cover of Boris Bergman's French adaptation of Doc Pomus' “Save the Last Dance for Me”) featured dancer Louise Lecavalier of the internationally famous Québec contemporary dance troupe La La La Human Steps.
For her 1991 album She Says Move On, she recorded a cover version of Jimi Hendrix's “Purple Haze”.
She switched from acoustic to electronic music on… her 1997 French-language album Sentiments naturels. The album featured club-oriented genres such as techno, house, and trip hop, and collaborators included Dimitri from Paris, Mirwais, Shazz, DJ Cam, and Todd Terry. Laure was also named in the songwriting credits.
Acting career
Laure is also a film actress, appearing in a number of Canadian-produced films, including the controversial 1974 release by Dušan Makavejev Sweet Movie, which was notable for both its sexual explicitness and scatology. Laure and Furey were frequent co-stars in the films of Gilles Carle, most notably, L'Ange et la femme (1977) and Fantastica (1980). She also stars alongside Pelé, Sylvester Stallone and Michael Caine in the 1981 film Escape to Victory. She acted in several movies with Nick Mancuso, which included Maria Chapdelaine (1983), Heartbreakers (1984), and Night Magic (1985).
1Songs
According to the website’s archived data: this song is not in the Discogs collection.
| Song | Year | Records |
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| Danse avant de tomber | 2001 |
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