CRi

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

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

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]

Someone Else was a Juno Award nominee for Electronic Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2018,[8] and Juvenile was a Juno nominee in the same category at the Juno Awards of 2021.[9]

He is the brother of actress and filmmaker Alexa-Jeanne Dubé.[10]

References
  1. "Introspective Montreal Producer CRi Comes Into His Own with New Video 'Don't'". Noisey, May 26, 2016.
  2. "De DJ de sous-sol à artiste sélectionné aux Juno". Le Journal de Montréal, January 23, 2019.
  3. "CRi: Tell Her". Exclaim!, June 15, 2016.
  4. "CRi: Someone Else". Exclaim!, March 22, 2017.
  5. "CRi propose un nouvel EP: le captivant Initial". Voir, March 15, 2019.
  6. "Charlotte Cardin et CRi reprennent Daniel Bélanger". Voir, January 16, 2019.
  7. "CRi lance Juvenile, un premier album 100 % québécois". Ici Radio-Canada, October 17, 2020.
  8. "Juno Awards Reveal 2018 Nominees". Exclaim!, February 6, 2018.
  9. Holly Gordon, "The Weeknd, JP Saxe, Jessie Reyez and Justin Bieber lead 2021 Juno Award nominations". CBC Music, March 9, 2021.
  10. Matthew Bedard, "CRI TEAMS UP WITH FILMMAKER AND SISTER ALEXA-JEANNE DUBÉ FOR ‘NEVER REALLY GET THERE’ MUSIC VIDEO". Flaunt, June 24, 2020.


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