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evelyne brochu releases music and we’re all orphan black trash again 

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Evelyne Brochu released two singles on April 25, 2019: Maintenant ou jamais and Copie carbone

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Interview with Evelyne Brochu, an actress and singer 

RDI Morning Cultural calendar, May 12, 2019

“A masterpiece.” This is how Evelyne Brochu describes Monia Chokri’s first feature film, La femme de mon frère, which will be screened at Cannes. She also talks about her career as a singer in this interview with Stéphane Leclair.

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On set - Evelyne Brochu

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Soft and mind-blowing, Evelyne Borchu’s voice perfectly embodies two new French retro pop songs that will be featured on her debut album, which is scheduled to be released this fall.

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On set - Evelyne Brochu

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Evelyne Brochu’s sweet sincerity

🔹 You and Felix collaborated together on Je cours a few years ago, was it a way for you to take the pulse of this different field?

I didn’t think that one day I would make an album and become a singer. It’s mainly because I was being accompanied by a guy I think is a genius. With him, I felt like a singer. When he told me he wanted to write me an album, I couldn’t refuse.

It was done organically. No strategy, no “patent testing”! It has always been in pleasure and friendship, in the shared passion to do this together. Felix is my true friend, a friend from CEGEP. It was a musical and friendly love at first sight. When you’re 17, music is very important because you’re defining your identity. It is a good tool to affirm who you are. Everyone does this as a teenager and Felix and I did our music education together. We sang The Smiths, The Beatles and a lot of Belle and Sebastian. When I was 20, I was a backing vocalist in his band. It’s as if music has always been a part of our friendship.

🔹 Felix is the songwriter, you are the singer. How does your collaboration reflect your creativity?

I don’t know what to call it. It wasn't a brainstorm, it was just being together. We went to her parents’ cabin for a week. We were singing tunes, we were doing our old covers again, there was a kind of osmosis that was created, the spark that made the songs sprang.

🔹 There were no expectations I guess…

None! It’s really a project of passion, of joy. There is something about an interpreter in me who has already known this to carry the words of another, to be the channel through which a work will pass. But there’s something completely magical about being in the studio again. First of all because the schedules look good (laughs) and also because I loved witnessing each little step. I was completely overwhelmed by the talent of the musicians, the team. I was in awe of everything!

🔹 Maintenant ou jamais stands out for its 60-70-80 period tonalities, with several pop and French song influences. How did you get to create this tone?

It’s us, it’s what’s inside us. There is no plan. There is no “hey I want it to sound like that”. It’s a big shake n’ bake of our influences and us!

🔹 An actress now a singer, what does music enable you to explore more than just acting?

The music itself is a passionate force. There is already a rhythm, a breath. You don’t need to generate anything, you just have to get on a train already running. As a performer, it is an asset from which you can draw that is automatic. Even as an actress, I use music to get emotional. A little bit to the wave, I use it as a tool. On the makeup chair, I tell myself “Ah, today is going to be that one”. It’s like there's a shortcut for you!

🔹 You perform music that has been written for you, but it’s not a character, it’s you. How do you feel about the distinction between the two?

I saw it as if it was me and as if it were a story. You know, a story, it’s a short form, it’s short. I see songs as places. Like Maintenant ou jamais it’s in Saint-Malo, in the evening. It’s as if you just have to go and live in them briefly. But I live in them, it’s closer to me perhaps, not so much a character.

🔹 When we move from one culture to another, we often use new facets of who we are. Does the geographical aspect, your reflex to see places, have anything to do with your acting career and the fact that you move around a lot?

Other languages and accents reveal who we are. As an actress, I know that when the place doesn’t exist (in the theatre for example) and I can see it, it’s because I believe in it. It is a magic formula that must be reinvented every time. You have to surround yourself with good magicians and maybe that's why I believe in it, in all the places on the album.

🔹 Music and theatre allow absence of places…

Yes, it’s because you complete with your imagination that it works. It’s cool to complement an art form by who we are. Music is part of your life. It's in your tank, it’s when you walk, it’s when you’re in need of love and it’s there that there’s an osmosis between your memories and the toune. It’s even more powerful. Theatre requires us to stop, there is a separation, it becomes like a dream, like a memory, but with music it’s a total merge because we are in life when we have music.

🔹 Speaking of the stage, can we see you there as a singer?

Yes, I think there will be a gig on stage.

🔹 Today if you had to walk down the street with a song in your ears, what would it be?

Clara Luciani’s Les fleurs. “which are perfect, who have no other role than to be”, it really moves me, this sentence, and the bass track is to die for.