Jill Barber

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It all seemed to happen so quickly. In 2009 Jill Barber was playing the prestigious Montreal Jazz Festival behind her award winning album Chances. At the insistence of a dear friend, she decided to perform for the first time ever, a French translation of one of her songs, “Tous Mes Rêves” (“All My Dreams”). Though Jill has always admired French culture, her basic high school-level language skills had previously inhibited her from properly expressing herself with her Québec audience. That all changed when she graced the stage that night in Montreal.

Between extensive touring in Québec, where Jill began engaging more with audiences in their native tongue, she took to the South of France where she enrolled in an intensive French language school, attending two month-long programs over the course of two years. Through these experiences Jill began to gain more confidence in French, eventually recording the first single from her follow-up album Mischievous Moon in both English and French. Tell Me/Dis-moi charted all over the country and the James Bond-inspired video, shot in Buenos Aires, was a mainstay on both Musique Plus and MuchMoreMusic.

Having earned over twenty award nominations and with two top-selling albums in English, Jill is poised to continue her burgeoning love affair with her French audience and Francophiles alike.