Samuel Tremblay, better known by his stage name Samian (born 1983 in Pikogan

Pikogan, Quebec

Pikogan is an Indian reserve in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Quebec, inhabited by members of the Abitibiwinni First Nation.The reserve had a population of 487 in the Canada 2006 Census. It is part of the census agglomeration of Amos....

, Quebec

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....

), is a Canadian

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...

 rapper who performs in both French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 and Algonquin

Algonquin language

Algonquin is either a distinct Algonquian language closely related to the Ojibwe language or a particularly divergent Ojibwe dialect. It is spoken, alongside French and to some extent English, by the Algonquin First Nations of Quebec and Ontario...

.

A member of the Abitibiwinni First Nation

Abitibiwinni First Nation

The Abitibiwinni First Nation is an Algonquian First Nation in the Canadian province of Quebec, residing primarily in the community of Pikogan in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region....

, Samian collaborated with Loco Locass

Loco Locass

Loco Locass are a hip hop group from Quebec formed in 1995. The group often defends the role of the French language in Canada, and champions Quebec sovereignty.Loco Locass' lyrics often deal with the role of the French language, and Quebec's role in Canada...

 and Anodajay

Anodajay

Steve Jolin, better known as Anodajay is a rapper from Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec in Canada.Discovering hip hop at the age of twelve, and from the age of sixteen became more involved in it, along with his other main interest, basketball...

 before releasing his debut album, Face à soi-même, in 2007 on Anodajay's 7ième Ciel. He has performed across Canada and internationally, including shows in France

France

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, Spain

Spain

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, Finland

Finland

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, China

China

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 and at the 2010 Winter Olympics

2010 Winter Olympics

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 in Vancouver

Vancouver

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.

His 2010 album Face à la musique includes a hip hop remake of Kashtin

Kashtin

Kashtin were a Canadian folk rock duo in the 1980s and 1990s, one of the most commercially successful and famous musical groups in First Nations history....

's "Tshinanu". His rendition does not sample

Sampling (music)

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the original recording; instead, he collaborated directly with the members of Kashtin on a new recording of the song's guitar line and chorus.

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