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Mélanie Renaud

French-Canadian Québécoise singer, born in 1982 in Haiti, died May 14th, 2024 in La Prairie, Quebec, Canada. Beginning as a backing singer in the hip-hop group Rainmen, she was noticed by the general public for the first time in 1998 at the age of 16, during the Granby International Song Festival, where she reached the final. His voice, of astonishing depth and sweetness, is once again known as a back vocalist. This is what we can hear in particular on the song “Mon Ange” by Éric Lapointe from his album [r6698704]. In 2001, she released her first of five albums. In 2002, she won “Revelation of the Year” at the Gala de l'Adisq and "Album of the Year" at the Canadian Independent Music Awards. In 2005, she achieved immense recognition from the community and the public by playing Esmeralda in the musical Notre-Dame de Paris, thereby becoming the first black woman to have this role. In 2023 she affirmed to be working on a new album even though she has been diagnosed with an incurable cancer. She died of cancer on May 14th, 2024 in La Prairie, Quebec, Canada.

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