Laurence Jalbert

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Laurence Jalbert (born Lise Jalbert 18 August 1959 in Rivière-au-Renard, Quebec) is a Canadian pop singer-songwriter.

She began her career with the band Volt in 1985. The band won CKOI-FM's L'Empire des futures stars competition in 1987. They recorded only one single, ("Nobody Knows"), before breaking up. Jalbert went on to a solo career, releasing her first album in 1990, which would know much success and become her first certified platinum album only one year later. In 1991 she receives the "Félix for discovery of the year" and Video Clip of the year award for her single Tomber.

In 1993 Jalbert released her second album Corridors, which received even more success then her first. Certified platinum, Corridors won her the Felix Pop/Rock album of the year. She released her third album Avant le Squall""in 1998, followed by Communio"" in 2000, which was the result of a two year tour with Dan Bigras, recorded live at the Spectrum in Montreal. In 2001, her fifth album, ... et j'espère was released in collaboration with Hugo Perreault and Michel Duguay, from Okoumé. In 2004, Audiogram released Laurence Jalberts' "Greatest hits", followed by Le Noël des Anges in 2005. In 2006, she released another live album from her Évidemment tour.

Her latest album released in the fall of 2007 is called Tout porte à croire.

She now lives in Gaspé where she bought a house in Cap-Aux-Os.^{[citation needed]}