Lynda Thalie

In popular culture

• Radio-Canada and RDI picked her as one of 4 Algero-Canadian personalities for its documentary series Mon Algérie et la vôtre. She also visited Algeria for the occasion recounting her experiences of homecoming after so many years.
• Her 2009 single "Rallye aicha des Gazelles" is the theme song for the Moroccan Rallye Aicha des Gazelles for the year, a rally event reserved only for women.
• In 2010, she took part, alongside many other Canadian artists in Ensemble pour Haïti, a French Canadian telethon that was held on 22 January 2010 in aid of victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
• She has provided vocals for the soundtrack of films by Michel Cusson of Cité-Amérique and the National Film Board of Canada

  Appearances

• In 2002, she was featured in Les FrancoFolies de Montréal
• In July 2009, she appeared in the Montreal International Jazz Festival
• She took part in francophony celebrations in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. and francophony in Greece.
• She has collaborated with a number of artists and most notably Enrico Macias as she sang with him in Les FrancoFolies de Montréal in Montreal in 2006, opening for him in Place des Arts in Montreal and singing with him in L'Olympia in Paris and in Cairo, Egypt.

  Awards and nominations

• 2000: Laureate at Ma première Place des Arts held at Montreal's Place des Arts, an event for upcoming Quebec artists
• 2004: Prix du patrimoine d'expression
• 2006: Nominated during ADSIQ awards for "Best World Music Album" for her self-titled album Lynda Thalie
• 2009: Won "World Music Artist of the Year" award for her general work and "Francophone Album of the Year" for her album La rose des sables during the Sounds of Blackness Awards in Montreal

  Personal life

• Lynda Thalie never knew her father close, as he had left the family when she was young never to return again. Thalie emigrated to usa with her mother and brother. She recounts the devastating effect of the loss of her father on her and her family. She also recounts in her autobiographical book Survivre aux naufrages her attempt to commit suicide. She said in an interview that the book in its honesty served as a redeeming experience for her.
• Thalie is a mother of twin children Dahlia and Liam

  Discography

Albums

• 2002: Sablier

1. "Sablier"
2. "L'âge nouveau"
3. "Marsa"
4. "Pour toi"
5. "En équilibre"
6. "Dis-moi, crie-moi"
7. "Alger Alger"
8. "Elle"
9. "Comme un matin à Larabâa"
10. "Marsa "

• 2005: Lynda Thalie

1. "En équilibre"
2. "Djouhar"
3. "Kfaya"
4. "Nomade"
5. "Adieu mon pays"
6. "Comme des mortels"
7. "De neige ou de sable"
8. "Collier de jasmin"
9. "Tout ce dont j'ai besoin"
10. "Croire"
11. "Galouli"
12. "Vu du 6ième"

• 2008: La rose des sables

1. "Une femme amoureuse"
2. "Le rallye des gazelles"
3. "Ana Akida"
4. "Mon amie la rose"
5. "La rose des sables"
6. "À nous"
7. "Si je pouvais"
8. "Melilla"
9. "Fais-moi croire"
10. "Mer et monde"
11. "Celle que moi je vois"

• 2013: Nomadia

1. Nomadia
2. Dance Your Pain Away
3. Je l'attends
4. Merci
5. 1001
6. Ne pleure pas
7. One Drop
8. Big Bang
9. Qui m'aime me suive
10. Mi casa

    Singles

• 2009: "Rallye aicha des Gazelles"

  Theatre

• 2004: Le Petit Prince in role of La rose