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Biography
Infobox musical artist|name = Aselin Debison |background = solo_singer |birth_name = Aselin Debison |birth_date = Birth date and age|1990|6|27|mf=y|death_date = |origin = Glace Bay, Nova Scotia , Canada |genre = Pop music|Pop |years_active = 2002–present |label = Sony Music Entertainment|Sony Music Canada Epic Records|Epic Aselin Music Inc. |website = http://www.aselindebison.com AselinDebison.com Aselin Debison (born June 27, 1990) is a Canadian pop music|pop and Celtic music singer.
Career
Debison began her singing career in 1999, when she was asked to sing at a rally of protesting miners in her hometown. Soon after this performance she began working on a Christmas album The Littlest Angel which was released in 2001. In 2002, she was spotted by Sony Music Entertainment|Sony Classical president Peter Gelb at the East Coast Music Awards. Her debut album Sweet Is the Melody appeared that same year.
In October 2002, Debison was chosen to sing for Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II at the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto, Ontario, during her visit to Canada for her Jubilee celebration.citation |url= http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art18708.asp |title= Aselin Debison - The Beginning - interview by Cavelle Natasha Layes Canadian Culture Editor of Bellaonline, "The Voice of Women"
Debison sang with country music artist and Runrig vocalist Bruce Guthro on a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC (and later a PBS ) special entitled "Aselin Debison: Sweet Is the Melody". She performed selections from her debut album and also classic Cape Breton Island songs, such as the Island's anthem. During her tour to promote Sweet Is the Melody , she performed in New York, Tokyo, Japan, and Seoul, Korea.
One track from the Sweet Is the Melody , Debison's cover of the distinctive Israel Kamakawiwo'ole medley arrangement Over the Rainbow / What a Wonderful World , became popular in Korea and Japan. (This song has been frequently, and incorrectly, attributed to United States|America n singer Norah Jones .) Thanks to its inclusion in soft pop compilation albums such as Sony Music Korea/Splash Music's 2003 Crossover Romance , it became a firmly established element of ambient music in many parts of east Asia. Debison also did covers of "Driftwood" a song by the Scottish band Travis and Garth Brooks ' Christmas song " Beyond the Season|Gift ." Several other tracks from Sweet Is the Melody were also included in Korean and Japanese pop compilations. Debison's version of Mike Oldfield 's " Moonlight Shadow " entered the pop music top 20 in many parts of Japan.citation |url= http://www.kiss-fm.co.jp/pc/hit/hit_index.php? date=20030328 |title= KissFM Kobe Hit chart 2003/03/28 "Sweet is the Melody" peaked at album number 10 on the Billboard charts citation |url= http://www.billboard.com/artist/aselin-debison/497955#/album/aselin-debison/sweet-is-the-melody/551708 |title= Billboard Charts for Aselin Debison and 55 on the authoritative Oricon pop charts in Japan.citation |url= http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/artist/308769/products/music/496720/1/ |title= Oricon charts page for Aselin Debison's "Sweet is the Melody" In Jan 2010, Debison's Asian success extended to Hong Kong , with "Sweet as the Melody" reaching number 60 on the KKBox Hong Kong classical album chart citation |url= http://hk.kkbox.com/charts/classical-weekly-album-15.html |title= KKBox Hong Kong classical album chart showing peak of Aselin Debison's "Sweet is the Melody" and the single "Moonlight Shadow" reaching number 46 citation |url= http://hk.kkbox.com/charts/classical-weekly-song-16.html |title= KKBox Hongkong classical song chart showing peak of Aselin Debison's "Moonlight Shadow"
In March 2005 Debison released her second album, Bigger than Me , and the singles "Life" and "Faze" have been popular on light rock and pop radio.citation |url= http://www.family-source.com/cache/744429/idx/0 |title= Canadian Top 30 chart from Canoe Inc. showing Aselin Debison's "Life" at number 28 Whereas Debison's early recordings consisted of cover versions, for Bigger than Me she wrote the material herself with assistance from Dave Thomson (co-founder of teen pop band Wave (band)|Wave ) and producer Thomas "Tawgs" Salter (initially renowned as a member of the 1990s Canadian rock band Dunk (band)|Dunk ).
Former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien has hailed Debison as the next Céline Dion .citation |url= http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art18708.asp |title= Aselin Debison - The Beginning - interview by Cavelle Natasha Layes Canadian Culture Editor of Bellaonline, "The Voice of Women" Debison received official congratulations for her musical success in a resolution from the Nova Scotia provincial legislature in April 2002.citation |url= http://www.gov.ns.ca/legislature/hansard/han58-2/house_02apr02.htm |title= Nova Sootia House of Assembly resolution # 2838 congratulating Debison on her successes and new Sony record deal
Personal life
Since her last album, Debison has been almost completely out of the public eye. However, a fourth album called "Homeward Bound" has recently been released on her own label and is available to buy on cdbaby.com and iTunes. http://www.aselindebison.com The new single "Close to You" has been released.citation |url= http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art15330.asp |title= Aselin Debison - The Music - interview by Cavelle Natasha Layes, Canadian Culture Editor of Bellaonline, "The Voice of Women"
She is currently enrolled at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia , studying Human Kinetics and planning to continue on in Education citation |url= http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art45157.asp |title= Aselin Debison - Growing Up - interview by Cavelle Natasha Layes, Canadian Culture Editor of Bellaonline, "The Voice of Women"citation |url= http://www.studentscholarships.org/scholarship/st_francis_xavier_university_scholarships.php | title= "Famous Alumni" list sub "About St. Francis Xavier University"
She has many uncles, aunts, and cousins in Glace Bay and all over Cape Breton Island.
She is engaged to be married to fellow musician Jonathan Ettinger.citation |url= http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art45157.asp |title= Aselin Debison - Growing Up - interview by Cavelle Natasha Layes, Canadian Culture Editor of Bellaonline, "The Voice of Women"
Discography
Studio albums
Date of Release
Title
Label
2001
The Littlest Angel
Aselin Music Inc.
October 2002
Sweet Is the Melody
Epic
February 2005
Bigger Than Me
Epic
2010
Homeward Bound
Aselin Music Inc.
Award Nominations
ECMA Nominations
2002 Pop Recording Of The Year – The Littlest Angel
2003 Female Artist Of The Year
2003 Roots/Traditional Artist Of The Year
2006 Female Artist Of The Year
2006 Single Of The Year – Life
2006 Pop Recording Of The Year – Bigger Than Me
Nova Scotia Music Award Nominations
2011 Country/Bluegrass Album Of The Year – Homeward Bound
Filmography
Easter Seals Telethon (1998) TV Series .... Herself
Sweet is the Melody (2003) Public TV Special ... Herself http://www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp? productId=1402798 PBS: Aselin Debison in Concert: Sweet is the Melody (2003, PBS)
''Rita MacNeil's Cape Breton (2007 – CTV) TV Series .... Herself
References
Reflist
External links
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Aselin-Debison/147336901962867 Official Facebook Fan Page
http://www.cbc.ca/programguide/program/index.jsp? program=Aselin+Debison%3A+Sweet+is+the+Melody CBC program guide
IMDb name | id=1330322 | name=Aselin Debison
http://youtube.com/watch? v=lPrO12hE4dM "Life" music video
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