Chantal Kreviazuk

Chantal Kreviazuk Profile Biography.


Born in Winnipeg, The us in 1973, Chantal Kreviazuk can certainly remember having had the actual yearning to create audio long before she basically could. As a kid, Chantal would sit as well as observe her siblings beating away for the keys of the recipient's piano, and this mix of curiosity and statement resulted in what Chantal telephone calls "hand-eye-ear coordination." The bottomline is, Chantal could play the cello from the moment she carressed it - without formal training. This kind of natural interest led Chantal's parents to enroll the girl in classical audio training, and it has been here that ( space ) for several years - Chantal learned an appreciation along with wider scope with regard to music that would ultimatey profit her own artistic projects.

As a teen, Chantal didn't pursue her interest in music beyond the creating of commercial jingles or the enjoying of the odd display on the lounge world. Chantal's main motivation just for this was to bring in important money, but functioned little artistic intent. These experiences molded Chantal's musical perception even more, adding to her list of influences the appealing pop melodies she'd both crafted himself, and heard on the radio. Yet in the mean time, Chantal continued to write more emotive, personal music which usually she chose to keep to herself.


Her whole world was shaken, however, every time a tragic accident during a trip in Tuscany nearly claimed her life. Involved in a front-end wreck with a motorcycle inside the hills of Tuscany, Chantal left the car accident with her jaw along with femur broken in several areas. Left to recover inside a foreign hospital, Chantal challenged many of her fears and weaknesses exactly. Scared and on your own, Chantal began to realize what she wanted to do with her life : she wanted to make music. But not like the musical work she had followed in the course of her teens, Chantal planned to pursue music by herself terms."[In the past] easily needed money, I'd think, 'oh, I far better go write a number of jingles for the radio' or 'I much better go get a job in a lounge for any month.' The accident was a wake-up call up. I realized that songs was something I possibly could give rather than one thing I could use,Inches she recalled in an interview.


Upon the woman return to Canada, Chantal positively pursued getting a producing contract. She began to polish the music she had hidden away, and after getting a manager as well as recording a test, Chantal was quickly picked up by a label. With 1997, Chantal released "Under These Rocks and Pebbles," a stunning very first that captured the songwriting essence of Chantal's audio. With hits just like "Wayne" and "Surrounded," Chantal developed a large splash together with the critics, all of who cited her being a talent to watch. Chantal used the success of her very first with a cover on the song "Leaving on a Aircraft Plane" on the hugely productive "Armageddon" soundtrack. This track by yourself gave her superb international exposure, and positioned her near the top of the charts.

Throughout fall of The late 90s, Chantal released her subsequent disc, "Colour, Moving, along with Still". Her follow-up was met with success add up to its predecessor, along with cemented Chantal's position on the maps. Even more introspective then the final, the album been able to maintain Chantal's signature harmony of sweet, uncomplicated melodies and black, nuanced lyrics. At the same time, Chantal's individual life took the upswing as the lady married long-time boyfriend and also Our Lady Serenity frontman, Raine Maida. The two continue to talk about a happy and gratifying relationship.


Since the relieve her last compact disk, Chantal has delved into additional creative outlets - such as a role from the Toronto company creation of"The Vagina Monologues," too a charity-related trip to Midsection East to investigate the particular well-being of the often disregarded Iraqi children - the actual victims reeling by sanctions placed on the country by the United States. She has also continuing to promote "Colour, Moving, but still," and is rumoured to be working on a follow-up disc. With a increasing catalogue of hits under her strip, and an interest in the globe community as a whole, there is no doubt that we haven't seen the last of Chantal Kreviazuk. Chantal Kreviazuk