CRi

This article is about the electronic musician. For other uses, see CRI (disambiguation).

CRi
Birth nameChristophe Dubé
OriginQuebec, Canada
GenresElectronic music
OccupationMusician
LabelsAnjunadeep
Formerly ofFeuilles et Racines
Websitecrimusic.net

CRi is the stage name of Christophe Dubé, a Canadian electronic musician from Quebec.[1]

Originally from Quebec City, he was a beatboxer for local hip hop group Feuilles et Racines before releasing his debut EP as an electronic artist in 2013.[2] He released a number of standalone tracks and remixes for other artists before following up with the EPs Tell Her in 2016,[3] Someone Else in 2017,[4] and Initial in 2019.[5]

In 2019, CRi and Charlotte Cardin collaborated on a cover of Daniel Bélanger's "Fous n'importe où".[6] Juvenile, his first full-length album, was released in 2020 and included Bélanger as a guest vocalist on the track "Signal".[7]

In 2023, CRi released his second studio album, Miracles, on which he collaborated with artists such as Half Moon Run and Klô Pelgag.[8]

Someone Else was a nominee for Electronic Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2018,[9] and Juvenile received a nomination in the same category at the Juno Awards of 2021.[10] The same year, he won a Félix Award for Discovery of the Year at the 43rd ADISQ gala.[11]

CRi is the brother of actress and filmmaker Alexa-Jeanne Dubé.[12]

  1. ^ "Introspective Montreal Producer CRi Comes Into His Own with New Video 'Don't'". Noisey, 26 May 2016.
  2. ^ "De DJ de sous-sol à artiste sélectionné aux Juno". Le Journal de Montréal, 23 January 2019.
  3. ^ "CRi: Tell Her". Exclaim!, 15 June 2016.
  4. ^ "CRi: Someone Else". Exclaim!, 22 March 2017.
  5. ^ "CRi propose un nouvel EP: le captivant Initial". Voir, 15 March 2019.
  6. ^ "Charlotte Cardin et CRi reprennent Daniel Bélanger". Voir, 16 January 2019.
  7. ^ "CRi lance Juvenile, un premier album 100 % québécois". Ici Radio-Canada, 17 October 2020.
  8. ^ "Miracles, un deuxième album lumineux pour CRi" [Miracles, a second luminous album for CRi]. ici.radio-canada.ca (in French). 23 September 2023. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  9. ^ "Juno Awards Reveal 2018 Nominees". Exclaim!, 6 February 2018.
  10. ^ Holly Gordon, "The Weeknd, JP Saxe, Jessie Reyez and Justin Bieber lead 2021 Juno Award nominations". CBC Music, 9 March 2021.
  11. ^ "CRi, la révélation de l'année qui veut démocratiser la musique électronique" [CRi, revelation of the year, who wants to democratize electronic music] (in French). 14 November 2021. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  12. ^ Matthew Bedard, "CRi teams up with filmmaker and sister Alexa-Jeanne Dubé for "Never Really Get There" music video" Archived 11 March 2023 at the Wayback Machine. Flaunt, 24 June 2020.