| Béatrice Martin | |
|---|---|
| Background information | |
| Also known as | Cœur de pirate |
| Born | September 22, 1989 |
| Origin | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Genres | Indie pop |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter |
| Instruments | Vocals, Piano |
| Labels | Grosse Boîte |
| Associated acts | Bonjour Brumaire, Indochine, Nicola Sirkis, Julien Doré, Bedouin Soundclash, Armistice |
| Website | Coeur de pirate |
Cœur de pirate (French for "Pirate Heart") is the stage name for Béatrice Martin (born September 22, 1989), a singer-songwriter from Quebec.
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She started playing the piano when she was only three years old, and later played as a keyboardist in the post-hardcore band December Strikes First when she was 15 years old. After a brief stint as keyboardist for Bonjour Brumaire,[1] she released her debut album Cœur de pirate in 2008 on Grosse Boîte. The album was subsequently nominated for Francophone Album of the Year at the 2009 Juno Awards.
She attracted wider media attention in February 2009 when Francis Vachon, a photographer from Quebec City, used her song "Ensemble" as the soundtrack to a popular YouTube video depicting his baby son playing with toys, leading to coverage on Good Morning America.[2]
In March 2009, Martin started an English side-project called Pearls, but hasn't taken it any further since then. She was seen performing with Jay Malinowski in May 2010 on Q, and talked about collaborating with him in the future.
In June 2009, she made a special appearance of CBC Radio's Q radio show with Jian Ghomeshi. She performed her single "Ensemble" and a new song, titled "Place de la république".
Cœur de pirate received a 2009 CBC Radio 3 "Bucky" award determined by listener votes. Her song "Comme des Enfants" received the 2009 "Bucky" award for "Best Reason to Learn French".[3]
In March 2010, Cœur de pirate received the award for best original song for "Comme des enfants" at the Victoires de la Musique, France's equivalent of the Grammys.[4]
Until 2010, she sang in French exclusively. Also in 2010, Cœur de pirate was featured in "Brutal Hearts", a song from the Bedouin Soundclash album Light the Horizon, also the first song sung in English by her, and she contributed a new song, "La Reine", to the 2010 edition of CBC Radio 2's Great Canadian Song Quest. Martin, Bedouin Soundclash's Jay Malinowski and several members of the American rock band The Bronx subsequently collaborated on a five-song EP under the band name Armistice, which was released on February 15, 2011.[5]
On March 27, 2011, Cœur de pirate revealed via her Facebook page that she was to return to the studio to commence work on her second album the following day. She confirmed on September 12, 2011 that her next album, titled Blonde, would be released November 7, 2011 in both digital and hard copy versions.[6]
Cœur de pirate has appeared in concert with French singer Julien Doré, performing a duet of the Rihanna hit "Umbrella." In 2009, she recorded a new version of her song "Pour un infidèle", with Doré featured as the male vocalist. They appeared together in the video for the song, styled as a 1960's-era celebrity couple.
Cœur de pirate contributed vocals on "Brutal Hearts", the fourth track on the 2010 Bedouin Soundclash album Light the Horizon. Frontman Jay Malinowski and Coeur de Pirate subsequently collaborated under the band name Armistice, releasing a five-track self-titled album on February 11, 2011.
She also appeared in Peter Peter's eponymous debut album Peter Peter in the song "Tergiverse".
In July 2009, it was revealed that Béatrice Martin had been a nude model for the alt-porn website GodsGirls when she was a minor, under the name Bea.[7] About 800 naked pictures were featured on the website for many months. GodsGirls removed the pictures at her record company's request when she signed her contract, but the pictures keep reappearing on the web via some blogs and forums throughout the years.
In November 2009, she confessed, on the set of the TV show Tout le monde en parle, that these pictures were taken two and a half years before, confirming that she was a minor at the time, and said that she was young.[8]