{"id":958,"date":"2026-08-01T01:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T05:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/genevieve-bilodeau-presente-son-nouvel-album-rendre-grace\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T01:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T05:04:12","slug":"genevieve-bilodeau-presente-son-nouvel-album-rendre-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/english\/genevieve-bilodeau-presente-son-nouvel-album-rendre-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Genevi\u00e8ve Bilodeau presents her new album Render thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/?attachment_id=89816\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Genevieve-Bilodeau-Rendre-grace.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400px\" height=\"400px\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-89816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Genevieve-Bilodeau-Rendre-grace.jpg 400w, https:\/\/linitiative.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Genevieve-Bilodeau-Rendre-grace-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For years, Genevi\u00e8ve Bilodeau muted the song. Not from lack of momentum, but from call. Involved in the environment for more than twenty years, she put her energy wherever something called her. When ecological and social issues demanded another form of speaking out from her, she turned to writing and documentaries, notably with Qu\u00e9bec profound. But after observing the ravages of the era and, at the same time, the beauty of the human impulses that resist, it was to music that she returned.<\/p>\n<p>At 50, Genevi\u00e8ve Bilodeau returned to university to study classical singing and explore her voice in a completely different way. Today, she returns to song with Renndre grace, an album born from this need to go to the heart of the intimate.<\/p>\n<p>Eight songs, between shadow and light The songs of Give thanks go through what we carry and what we keep silent: the invisible heritage of our lineages (Laetitia), the imperfect, tender and essential family that we receive and build (The family), the trap of excusing the inexcusable (He raised his voice), the woman locked in the ideal of the other (The muse), the desire to blend into the other without losing oneself there (I would like), the vulnerability of a budding love when you are no longer twenty (L\u2019Aube), or the power given to those who speak loudly even when they speak hollowly (Tabou les taboos).<\/p><div id=\"linit-4216506714\" class=\"linit-dans-le-contenu linit-entity-placement\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-8992136571741975\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px;\" \ndata-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8992136571741975\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"6185130430\"><\/ins> \n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"_ytid_79316\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" data-origwidth=\"640\" data-origheight=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v_JkLyvRT78?enablejsapi=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;cc_load_policy=0&amp;cc_lang_pref=&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;loop=0&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autohide=2&amp;theme=dark&amp;color=red&amp;controls=1&amp;disablekb=0&amp;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__ epyt-is-override no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\" allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\" name=\"_ytid_79316\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The title song, Give thanks, the anchor point: a way of connecting to the small and the big, inside and out, and of remembering where we come from.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMusic, and voice in particular, allows me to vibrate this something in me that I cannot name, a little core, but which seems to contain me and connect me to everything that is alive. \u00bb \u2014 Genevi\u00e8ve Bilodeau<\/p>\n<p>Credits\u2022 Arrangements: Denis Ferland, Fran\u00e7ois Richard and Genevi\u00e8ve Bilodeau\u2022 Mixing: Ghyslain-Luc Lavigne\u2022 Mastering: Marc Th\u00e9riault (Le Lab Mastering)\u2022 Cover: Mario Mercier, based on watercolors by Isabelle Brouillette\u2022 External eye and ear: Flavie L\u00e9ger-Roy and Ga\u00eble\u2022 Musicians: Denis Ferland, Blanche Baillargeon, Marc-Andr\u00e9 Larocque, Fran\u00e7ois Richard, Guillaume Bourque, Simon Bourget, David Carbonneau, M\u00e9lanie B\u00e9lair, Chantal Bergeron, Ligia Paquin, Sheila Hannigan, Marie-Eve Pelletier, and Gabriel Lesage-Bilodeau.\u2022 ISRC: CAU622500008\u2022 UPC: 199384338042<\/p>\n<p>A discreet, but coherent journey Actress (Virginie, M\u00e9moires vives, Les moments parfaits), musician (the group Ann Victor, the solo album Youpelaille!, the trio Le Brassi\u00e8res Shop), author of the documentary Qu\u00e9bec profound, involved in the environment for more than twenty years &#8211; notably with the Fondation Rivi\u00e8res and as godmother of the Festival of Films for the Environment &#8211; Genevi\u00e8ve Bilodeau has always followed a free rather than calculated trajectory. 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