For most of you, you don't know who Mélanie Renaud is.
Born in Haiti in 1982, she was adopted at 8 months to parents from Quebec. She built a hell of a career as a singer and a stage performer. Today's song won the Félix Prize, an award for Quebec songwriters, for in 2002. Her debut album, Ma Liberté, won the Canadian Independent Spirit Award for Francophone Album the same year. She fought and beat substance abuse. Her huge voice never suffered.
Renaud passed away today at age 42, from overian cancer. Her legacy and her music remain.
A few months before she passed, Renaud did a beautiful acoustic version of this same song. It is breathtaking and haunting.
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