Carole Laure
Encyclopedia
Carole Laure is an actress and singer from the province of Quebec
in Canada
.
, whom she met in 1977 and who later became her husband. She 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 Québéc 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.
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).
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
in Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
.
Career
Throughout most of her career, Carole Laure primarily collaborated with Anglophone singer, songwriter, producer, and director Lewis FureyLewis Furey
Lewis Furey, born Lewis Greenblatt is a Canadian composer, singer, violinist, pianist, actor and director.-Career:Born in Montreal, Quebec to French and American parents, Furey trained as a classical violinist, and at age 11 performed as a soloist in the Matinées pour la jeunesse concert series...
, whom she met in 1977 and who later became her husband. She 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
Tammy Wynette
Virginia Wynette Pugh, known professionally as Tammy Wynette , was an American country music singer-songwriter and one of the genre's best-known artists and biggest-selling female vocalists....
's "Stand By Your Man
Stand By Your Man
"Stand by Your Man" is a song co-written by Tammy Wynette and Billy Sherrill and originally recorded by Tammy Wynette, released as a single in September 1968 in the USA...
", Phil Spector
Phil Spector
Phillip Harvey "Phil" Spector is an American record producer and songwriter, later known for his conviction in the murder of actress Lana Clarkson....
's "To Know Him is to Love Him", Rosanne Cash
Rosanne Cash
Rosanne Cash is an American singer-songwriter and author. She is the eldest daughter of the late country music singer Johnny Cash and his first wife, Vivian Liberto Cash Distin....
's "Seven Year Ache
Seven Year Ache
Seven Year Ache was Rosanne Cash's second album, released in 1981. It was produced by her then-husband Rodney Crowell and reached number one on the Billboard country album chart. Three of its tracks were also number one in the U.S. country singles category: "Seven Year Ache" Seven Year Ache was...
", and Leonard Cohen
Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships...
's "Coming Back to You". The video for "Danse avant de tomber" (a cover of Boris Bergman's French adaptation of Doc Pomus
Doc Pomus
Jerome Solon Felder, better known as Doc Pomus , was a twentieth-century American blues singer and songwriter. He is best known as the lyricist of many rock and roll hits. Pomus was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the category of non-performer in 1992. He was also inducted into...
' "Save the Last Dance For Me") featured dancer Louise Lecavalier
Louise LeCavalier
Louise Lecavalier, OC is a Canadian dancer, known as one of the icons of Canadian contemporary dance.Lecavalier was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. She began her professional dance career at the age of eighteen when she joined Le Groupe Nouvelle Aire. It was there that she met Édouard...
of the internationally famous Québéc contemporary dance
Contemporary dance
Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement...
troupe La La La Human Steps
La La La Human Steps
La La La Human Steps is a Québécois contemporary dance group in Canada, known for its energetic, acrobatic style that often involves fast-paced and athletic physical contact...
.
For her 1991 album She Says Move On, she recorded a cover version of Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...
's "Purple Haze
Purple Haze
"Purple Haze" is a song written in 1966 and recorded in 1967 by The Jimi Hendrix Experience and released as a single in both the United Kingdom and the United States. It appeared on their 1967 album Are You Experienced...
".
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
House music
House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...
, and trip-hop, and collaborators included Dimitri from Paris
Dimitri from Paris
Dimitri from Paris is a French music producer and DJ of Greek origins. His musical influences are rooted in 1970s funk and disco sounds that spawned contemporary house music, as well as original soundtracks from 50s and 60s cult movies such as Breakfast at Tiffany's, La Dolce Vita and The Party,...
, Mirwais, Shazz
Shazz
Shazz, is a French record producer and remixer.Shazz is the short word for Soul house and Jazz....
, DJ Cam
DJ Cam
DJ Cam is a French DJ. His tunes are almost entirely a hybrid of both hip-hop and jazz music, and is presented in an abstract manner. His first LP was Underground Vibes in 1994, and was revolutionary for its time, featuring familiar jazz samples and many vibe samples and heavy hip-hop influences...
, and Todd Terry
Todd Terry
Todd N. Terry is an American DJ, producer, and remixer.-Career:Terry's productions extensively used samples blending the sounds of classic disco, the Chicago sound, and elements of hip-hop....
. Laure was also named in the songwriting credits.
Laure is also a film actress, appearing in a number of Canadian-produced films, including the controversial 1974 release by Dušan Makavejev
Dušan Makavejev
Dušan Makavejev is a Serbian film director and screenwriter, famous for his groundbreaking films of Yugoslav cinema in the late 1960s and early 1970s...
Sweet Movie
Sweet Movie
Sweet Movie is a film by the Yugoslavian director Dušan Makavejev. The film follows two women: a Canadian beauty queen, who represents a modern commodity culture, and a captain aboard a ship laden with candy and sugar, who is a failed communist revolutionary. Director of photography is Pierre Lhomme...
, 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).
Albums
- Alibis (1978)
- Carole Laure/Lewis Furey Fantastica (1980)
- Carole Laure/Lewis Furey Enregistrement Public au Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin (1982)
- Carole Laure/Lewis Furey Night Magic (1985)
- Western Shadows (1989)
- She Says Move On (1991)
- Sentiments Naturels (1997)
- Collection Légende (1999)
Filmography
(mainly French language)- Mon enfance à Montréal (1971)
- Fleur bleue as Suzanne (1971)
- Series 4 (1972)
- IXE-13 as Shaïra (1972)
- La Porteuse de pain (TV miniseries) as Marie Harmant (1973)
- La Mort d'un bûcheron as Marie Chapdeleine (1973)
- Les Corps célestes as Rose-Marie (1973)
- Sweet MovieSweet MovieSweet Movie is a film by the Yugoslavian director Dušan Makavejev. The film follows two women: a Canadian beauty queen, who represents a modern commodity culture, and a captain aboard a ship laden with candy and sugar, who is a failed communist revolutionary. Director of photography is Pierre Lhomme...
as Miss Monde 1984 / Miss Canada (1974) - A Thousand Moons (1975)
- La Tête de Normande St-Onge as Normande St-Onge (1975)
- Né pour l'enfer (Born for Hell) as Amy (1976)
- Una Magnum Special per Tony Saitta as Louise Saitta (1976)
- L'Eau chaude, l'eau frette as Amoureuse (1976)
- L'Ange et la femme as Girl (1977)
- La MenaceLa MenaceLa Menace is a 1977 French-Canadian film directed by Alain Corneau and starring Yves Montand, Carole Laure and Marie Dubois.- Plot :Henri Savin has managed a trucking company for his lover, Dominique Montlaur, for many years. Now he is planning to leave her for Julie Manet, the woman he has...
as Julie Manet (1977) - Préparez vos mouchoirsGet Out Your HandkerchiefsGet Out Your Handkerchiefs is a 1978 French romantic comedy film directed by Bertrand Blier. The film received the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 51st Academy Awards. The film had a total of 1,321,087 admissions in France. -Plot:...
(Get Out Your Handkerchiefs) as Solange (1977) - La Jument vapeur as Armelle Bertrand (1978)
- Inside Out (1979)
- Au revoir à lundi as Lucie Leblanc (1979)
- FantasticaFantastica (film)Fantastica is a 1980 French-Canadian musical film directed by Gilles Carle. It was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Carole Laure - Lorca* Lewis Furey - Paul* Serge Reggiani - Euclide Brown* Claudine Auger - Johanne McPherson...
as Lorca (1980) - Asphalte as Juliette (1981)
- Un assassin qui passe as Pauline Klein (1981)
- Escape to VictoryEscape to VictoryEscape to Victory, known simply as Victory in North America, is a 1981 film about Allied prisoners of war who are interned in a German prison camp during World War II...
(Victory) as The French - Renée (1981) - Croque la vie as Thérèse (1981)
- Maria ChapdelaineMaria ChapdelaineMaria Chapdelaine is a novel written in 1913 by the French writer Louis Hémon, who was then residing in Quebec.-Adaptations:The novel has had three film adaptations, two French and one Québécois: in 1934, by Julien Duvivier, with Madeleine Renaud , and Jean Gabin , partly filmed in Péribonka; in...
as Maria Chapdelaine (1983) - À mort l'arbitreA mort l'arbitreÀ mort l'arbitre is a 1984 French thriller film, directed by Jean-Pierre Mocky. The film won Best Original Idea at the 1984 Mystfest and was nominated for Best Film in the same event.-Plot:...
as Martine (1984) - Stress as Nathalie (1984)
- Heartbreakers as Liliane (1984)
- The SurrogateThe Surrogate (1984 film)The Surrogate is a 1984 Canadian thriller film starring Art Hindle, Carole Laure, Shannon Tweed, and Jackie Burroughs. The film was written by Don Carmody and Robert Geoffrion, produced by Don Carmody and John Dunning, executively produced by André Fleury and André Link and directed by Don Carmody...
as Anouk Van Derlin (1984) - Night Magic as Judy (1985)
- Drôle de samedi as Véronique (1985)
- Sauve-toi, Lola as Lola (1986)
- Sweet Country as Eva (1987)
- La Nuit avec Hortense (1988)
- Palace (TV miniseries) as La cliente à la mouche / Sylvie, la femme du service des rêves (1988)
- Beau fixe sur Cormeilles (1989)
- La Vie en couleurs (TV) as Laura (1989)
- Thank You Satan as France Monnier (1989)
- Les Aventuriers d'Eden River (Flight from Justice) (TV) as Dr. Ann Stephens (1993)
- Elles ne pensent qu'à ça... as Jess (1994)
- Rats and Rabbits as Rita (2000)
- Primitifs (2002)
- Les Fils de Marie as Marie (2002)
- La Belle bête (The Beautiful Beast) as Louise (2006)
- La Capture (Director, 2007)