2025 ALBUM FRANCOPHONE DE L’ANNÉE | Klô Pelgag | | The JUNO Awards

Klô Pelgag is an acclaimed artist in Quebec and Canada, with 20 Félix awards at the ADISQ Gala, a JUNO Award, one nomination on the short list and one on the long list for the Polaris Music Prize, sold-out concerts at MTelus and collaborations and appearances at concerts by CRi, Patrick Watson and Pomme. Her latest opus, Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs, has garnered accolades from the media. In Canada, Exclaim! gave it four stars, and in Quebec the reviews were unanimous: five stars from Le Journal de Montréal, “Le LP de 2020, on le tient”; 9/10 from Le Canal Auditif, “une œuvre pertinente et audacieuse”; and four stars from La Presse, “un album riche”. Her last opus, Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs, has spread beyond the province and the country, with rave reviews in France, in Télérama, with its coveted ffff rating, and in Longueur d’onde, Rolling Stone France, FrancoFan and more. Influential American journalist Anthony Fantano reviewed the album on his YouTube channel, The Needle Drop – which was unheard of for a Francophone album at the time: “There are tons of wonderful creative highlights in every nook and cranny of this project.” In recent years, she performed in France at La Maroquinerie and in the UK at the sold-out Lexington, as well as in Japan, Belgium and Switzerland. With her first full-length, L’alchimie des monstres in 2013, she scooped several awards, including the Prix Barbara from the French Ministry of Culture, the Grand Prix de la Francophonie from the Académie Charles Cros, the Prix Miroir Célébration de la langue française at the Festival d’été de Québec and the Prix Rapsat-Lelièvre. With her second record, L’étoile thoracique, she received the prestigious Prix Félix-Leclerc, as well as the Prix de la chanson SOCAN for the song “Ferrofluides-fleurs”.