This section tells you more about famous French artists: singers, actors, writers, poets or painters.<\/p>\n
B\u00e9atrice Martin<\/b> (born September 22, 1989), better known by her stage name C\u0153ur de pirate<\/b> (French<\/a>: pirate heart<\/i>) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. A francophone from Montreal<\/a>, she sings mostly in French and has been credited with “bringing la chanson fran\u00e7aise<\/i> to a whole new generation of Quebec youth”.<\/p>\n Born in the province of Quebec<\/a>, B\u00e9atrice Martin started playing the piano when she was only three years old. She entered the Conservatoire de musique du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al<\/a> at the age of nine and studied there for five years.<\/p>\n At the age of 15, she played as a keyboardist in the post-hardcore<\/a> band December Strikes First which starred her best friend, Francis, who would later become the subject of the song “Francis” on her debut album.[citation needed<\/a><\/i>]<\/sup> Martin had a brief stint as keyboardist for Bonjour Brumaire<\/a> from late 2007 to April 2008.<\/p>\n In a report broadcast on French television, Martin explained that she chose the name “C\u0153ur de pirate” to appear not “as an isolated musician, but to get a band identity from the start.” She released her debut album C\u0153ur de pirate<\/a><\/i> on September 16, 2008 on Grosse Bo\u00eete<\/a>. Described as “rather simple” musically, it mostly featured Martin’s voice and piano playing with some minor additional instrumentation.<\/p>\n In February 2009, Martin attracted wider media attention when a photographer from Quebec City<\/a>, Francis Vachon, used the song “Ensemble” as the soundtrack to a viral video<\/a> on YouTube<\/a> entitled “Time lapse of a baby playing with his toys”, leading to coverage on Good Morning America<\/a><\/i>, Perez Hilton<\/a>‘s website, The Globe and Mail<\/a><\/i> and elsewhere.[<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n In March 2009, Martin released a song in English, “One for Me”, under the name Pearls on MySpace<\/a>. In a later interview she described the project as a joke and said she did not plan to continue it, though she did not not rule out the possibility of releasing music in English at a later date.<\/p>\n In June 2009, she made a special appearance of CBC Radio<\/a>‘s Q<\/a><\/i> radio show with Jian Ghomeshi<\/a>. She performed her single “Ensemble” and a new song, titled “Place de la r\u00e9publique”.<\/p>\n Martin performed with Jay Malinowski<\/a> of Bedouin Soundclash<\/a> in May 2010 on Q<\/i>, and talked about collaborating with him in the future. She was later featured in a Bedouin Soundclash<\/a> song, “Brutal Hearts”, on the Light the Horizon<\/a><\/i>. Martin, Malinowski, and several members of the American rock band The Bronx<\/a> subsequently collaborated on a five-song EP under the band name Armistice<\/a>, which was released on February 15, 2011.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n On March 27, 2011, Martin revealed via her Facebook page that she was to return to the studio to commence work on her second album the following day. Her second album, Blonde<\/a><\/i>, was released on November 7, 2011 in both digital and hard copy versions. “Adieu” and “Golden Baby” were released as singles from this LP.<\/p>\n After announcing her pregnancy in February 2012, Martin stopped touring during the second half of the year and gave birth to a daughter in September. In early 2013, Martin returned from her hiatus with a music video for “Place de la r\u00e9publique”, the first for which she acted as director, and an international tour beginning in March. She also revealed that she was currently working on a “totally different” English-language project after being approached by a label and artistic director and had already recorded some demos.<\/p>\n C\u0153ur de pirate received a 2009 CBC Radio 3<\/a> “Bucky<\/a>” award determined by listener votes. Her song “Comme des enfants” received the 2009 “Bucky” award for “Best Reason to Learn French”. This section tells you more about famous French artists: singers, actors, writers, poets or painters. Do you know Coeur de Pirate ? B\u00e9atrice Martin (born September 22, 1989), better known by her stage name C\u0153ur de pirate (French: pirate heart) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. A francophone from Montreal, she sings mostly in French and has been credited with “bringing la chanson fran\u00e7aise to a whole new generation of Quebec youth”. Born in the province of Quebec, B\u00e9atrice Martin started playing the piano when she was only three years old. She entered the Conservatoire de musique du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3oReK-iB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/french-academy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/french-academy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/french-academy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/french-academy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/french-academy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/french-academy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/french-academy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/french-academy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/french-academy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/french-academy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}2007\u20132009: Debut album and first success<\/h3>\n
2009\u20132011: Side projects Pearls and Armistice<\/h3>\n
2011 to present: Blonde<\/i> and upcoming English project<\/h3>\n
Awards<\/h2>\n
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