Five years after revealing that she suffers from bipolar disorder, Quebec singer Andee is doing better and she now feels ready to launch a new album.
“I feel more serene than ever, more serene than five years ago when I started making this album,” she confides.
We knew Andee, the stage name of Andrée-Anne Leclerc, in 2012 when she took part in Star Academy. Recruited by Universal Music who saw in her a future international star, she opened for Demi Lovato, Bryan Adams on the Plains of Abraham, was offered a song by the Pink team.
In short, she was gone for the glory, but her sanity confused the waters.
She received her diagnosis after Star Academy and claims to have taken years to accept it. In 2015, the year of the release of his album Black and White Heart, a relapse sent her to the hospital for four months.
“My health has been my priority over the past few years,” she sums up.
Back in Quebec
Which explains in good part why she took all her time to record this new album, expected on March 26.
We will find there the tracks of the two EPs, One and Plus One, launched in November 2019 and June 2020. There will therefore be Starting point, a song in French which has been offered to radio stations since Tuesday.
Through it all, Andee will leave Ontario, where she has lived for seven years, to come back to settle near her parents’ house, on the south shore of Quebec.
“I thought about it before COVID,” she says. My husband (Ontario musician Kori Kameda) wants to experience this. It will allow him to improve his French. It is a project that is close to our hearts. ”
She wants this move to be beneficial for her career. “I think that it will rise more in Quebec and bring me, I hope, more opportunities.”
Another taboo
One thing is certain, she will not hesitate to talk about mental health so that this subject is no longer taboo in the musical world.
“I see that we talk about it a lot. Are we talking about it enough? I am not ready to say yes. I think it’s still a taboo. Me the first, when I had my first psychosis in 2012, I didn’t want it to come out. ”
Those days are over. Andee will no longer lose an opportunity to speak openly about it.
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