Andrée Watters

Andrée Watters-Michaud (born January 25, 1983 in Charlesbourg, Quebec) is a musician and a one-time Felix-award winner in 2004, from Quebec.



Watters grew up in the Quebec region and first showed her talent in a Christmas-related musical comedy when she was 15 years old. She later participated a youth singing contest in which she finished first provincially and third across Canada. After moving to Montreal two years later, she made her first live public appearance in the Radio-Canada game show La Fureur.

Watters' brother Patrick, who worked a firefighter for the Alberta provincial government, was killed in July 2007 in a helicopter crash while he and several hundred other firefighters combated a major forest fire near Fort McMurray in northern Alberta. Four others were injured in the incident.

In 2003, after signing with Sony-BMG, Watters released her first album AW which sold 75 000 copies in Quebec alone. There were attempts by the label company to release a European version of the disc in France but the project was cancelled.

In 2004, the success of the album has resulted into a Félix Award for Best rock album of the year at the annual ADISQ awards, the provincial version of the Canadian Juno Awards. She was also nominated for four other Felix including best female singer of the year and Breakthrough artist of the year.

The hits Si exceptionnel and Ne reste pas were the two songs that charted the highest in the Quebec Francophone charts including the Radio Énergie Countdown across the province.

Her second album À travers was released in 2005 with Laisse la pluie being the most notable hit across the charts in Quebec.
In 2006, along with Bruno Pelletier, Sylvain Cossette, Daniel Boucher and Gabrielle des Trois-Maisons, Watters participated in a musical show called Dracula.
In 2007, she participated as herself in the movie À vos marques Party and released a song for the movie's soundtrack.

In 2008, Watters was one of the headliners of the 2008 CFL Grey Cup Diet Pepsi Halftime Show. Along with fellow Canadian natives, Theory of a Deadman.

Her third album titled Minuit was released on April 29, 2008. The title song MINUIT was a #1 hit on the Francophone Chart in Quebec. She herself co-wrote the ten tracks and the album was produced along with singer-songwriter Sylvain Cossette who guided her as producer/co-songwirter of the album. The album consists of a mix of rock songs and ballads in which Cossette had many top-charted singles during his career. At the same time, she also signed with another label company (Vega Musique/Universal) and has a new manager (Mark Vinet).

During the summer of 2008, she toured along with Dan Bigras and his show titled "Dan et ses blondes", and she is presently opening for Cossette's 70s Tour. She is also planning a tour of her own starting in late summer 2009.