| Catherine Major | |
| Birth Date: | 18 February 1980 |
| Birth Place: | Outremont, Quebec, Canada |
| Genre: | Chanson, pop |
| Occupation: | Singer |
| Instrument: | Vocals |
| Years Active: | 2010s-present |
Catherine Major (born February 18, 1980) is a Canadian pop singer and songwriter from Quebec.[1] She is most noted for her 2011 album Le désert des solitudes, which was a Juno Award nominee for Francophone Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2012.[2]
Originally from Outremont, she studied piano in childhood. She released her debut album Par-dessus bord, in 2004[3] and toured to support the album as an opening act for Richard Desjardins.[4] In 2007 she composed music for Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette's film The Ring (Le Ring), for which she won the Jutra Award for Best Original Music at the 10th Jutra Awards.[4] The following year she released her second album, Rose sang.[4]
Le désert des solitudes was released in 2011.[5] In 2012, she received a second Jutra nomination for Best Original Music, for her work on Micheline Lanctôt's film For the Love of God (Pour l'amour de Dieu).[6]
Her fourth album, La maison du monde, followed in 2015.[7]
In 2019, she participated alongside Ginette Reno, Diane Dufresne, Céline Dion, Isabelle Boulay, Luce Dufault, Louise Forestier, Laurence Jalbert, Ariane Moffatt, Marie Denise Pelletier and Marie-Élaine Thibert in a supergroup recording of Renée Claude's "Tu trouveras la paix", as a charitable fundraiser for Alzheimer's disease research after Claude's diagnosis with Alzheimer's was announced.[8] Later the same year she performed a show with the Orchestre Symphonique de Québec, premiering several new songs from her forthcoming fifth album.[9] The album, Carte mère, was released in 2020.[10]