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Mitsou is a Actor Canadienne born on 1 september 1970 at Quebec City (Canada)

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Birth name Mitsou Annie Marie Gélinas
Nationality Canada
Birth 1 september 1970 (53 years) at Quebec City (Canada)

Mitsou Annie Marie Gélinas (born September 1, 1970 in Loretteville, Quebec) is a Canadian pop singer, businesswoman, television and radio host, and actress. She is credited as Mitsou Gélinas when acting, but records simply as Mitsou (the French spelling of Mitsu, which means honey in Japanese).

Biography

Born in Loretteville, Quebec, Mitsou is the granddaughter of Quebec actor Gratien Gélinas. She got involved in acting and modelling as a child, but also began to pursue singing in her teenage years. In 1988, she signed with Canadian independent Isba Records and released her first single, "Bye Bye Mon Cowboy" (composed and produced by Jean-Pierre Isaac), which became a smash pop hit across Canada (an extremely rare feat for a francophone song). Later that year, she followed with her debut, multicultural-themed album, El Mundo which also spawned the singles "La Corrida" and "Les Chinois". "Bye Bye Mon Cowboy" was later remixed by Shep Pettibone and re-released for the American market with a new video.

In 1990, she released her follow-up album, Terre des hommes. Ivan Doroschuk (of Men Without Hats) wrote the title track in addition to her first English-language song "A Funny Place (The World Is)". She also changed her image by dyeing her hair reddish-brown instead of her trademark blonde.

The first single, "Mademoiselle Anne", failed to replicate her cross-Canada success, but in 1991 the second single, "Dis-moi, dis-moi", put Mitsou back in the spotlight with a controversial video that showed her and several male and female models nude in a shower room. The video, which was released only a few months after Madonna's "Justify My Love", was banned by MuchMusic (as the Madonna video had been). Notably, the video for "Dis-moi, dis-moi" was not banned on Much's French-language sister station MusiquePlus, but in fact was placed in heavy rotation; Mitsou's manager Pierre Gendron attributed the difference to English Canada being more prudish than Quebec.

Having banned two high-profile pop videos within a few months of each other, MuchMusic created a new occasional late-night series, Too Much 4 Much, on which they would play banned videos along with forum and panel discussions on the controversies these videos raised. Due to the controversy, Mitsou's single was played across Canada even though the lyrics (which Mitsou co-wrote) were exclusively in French.



Her 1992 follow-up EP, Heading West, was a collection of past hits and new material in English and French. Despite a title track co-written by Cyndi Lauper, and the radio and video play given the dance-driven single "Deep Kiss", it failed to generate a substantial pop hit. In 1993, she followed it up with her first full-English album Tempted. Although the lead single was written by RuPaul ("Everybody Say Love"), the album again failed to give her a significant hit. The video for "Everybody Say Love" featured nudity (as well as homosexuality) but failed to stir any media attention.

Subsequently, she returned to recording primarily French-language material for her 1994 album Ya Ya which included cover versions of songs popular in Quebec in the '60s and '70s, such as the title track and "Comme j'ai toujours envie d'aimer". She also released a Christmas album entitled Noel in 1995 that included some Quebec holiday classics.

After a hiatus, her next album, Mitsou (Éponyme) (1999), featured hip-hop-influenced beats and a street-oriented rock sound. She also co-wrote and co-produced all the tracks. A club-oriented EP Vibe followed in 2002. It features remixes of previous material such as "Bye Bye Mon Cowboy" (which was re-recorded and released as a single) and "Money Penny".

Usually with

Denys Arcand
Denys Arcand
(1 films)
Sophie Lorain
Sophie Lorain
(2 films)
Luc Dionne
Luc Dionne
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Mitsou (5 films)

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ParaNorman
ParaNorman (2012)
, 1h32
Directed by Sam Fell, Chris Butler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about children, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Ghost films, Zombie films, Films about viral outbreaks, Comedy horror films, Children's films, LGBT-related films, Disaster films, LGBT-related film
Actors Casey Affleck, Tempestt Bledsoe, John Goodman, Bernard Hill, Anna Kendrick, Leslie Mann
Roles Sandra Babcock
Rating69% 3.49963.49963.49963.49963.4996
In the small town of Blithe Hollow, Massachusetts, Norman Babcock (Kodi Smit-McPhee) is an 11-year-old boy who speaks with the dead, including his late grandmother (Elaine Stritch) and various ghosts in town. Almost no one believes him and he is isolated emotionally from his family while being ridiculed by his peers. His friend, Neil Downe (Tucker Albrizzi), is an overweight boy who is bullied himself and finds in Norman a kindred spirit. During rehearsal of a school play commemorating the town's execution of a witch three centuries ago, Norman has a vision of the town's past in which he is pursued through the woods by townsfolk on a witch hunt. Afterward, the boys are confronted by his estranged and seemingly deranged uncle Mr. Prenderghast (John Goodman) who tells his nephew that he soon must take up his regular ritual to protect the town. Soon after this encounter, Prenderghast dies from a sudden stroke. During the official performance of the school play Norman has another vision, creating a public spectacle of himself which leads to his father (Jeff Garlin) grounding him. His mother (Leslie Mann) tells him that his father's stern manner is because he is afraid for him. The next day, Norman sees Prenderghast's spirit who tells him that the ritual must be performed with a certain book before sundown that day. Norman is at first reluctant to go because he is scared but his grandmother tells him it is all right to be scared as long as he does not let it change who he is. Norman sets off to retrieve the book from Prenderghast's house (having to take it from his corpse).
The Child Prodigy, 1h41
Directed by Luc Dionne
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Patrick Drolet, Lothaire Bluteau, Benoît Brière, Patrice Coquereau, Françoise Faucher, Sophie Faucher
Roles Vivianne Jobin
Rating65% 3.2644653.2644653.2644653.2644653.264465
Ce film est basé sur la vie et l'œuvre du pianiste virtuose André Mathieu, surnommé le Mozart québécois.
The Barbarian Invasions, 1h52
Directed by Denys Arcand, Jacques W. Benoît
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Aviation films, Films about cancer
Actors Rémy Girard, Stéphane Rousseau, Roy Dupuis, Louise Portal, Dorothée Berryman, Marie-Josée Croze
Roles Ghislaine
Rating74% 3.746743.746743.746743.746743.74674
Continuing seventeen years after Arcand's The Decline of the American Empire, the film centres on an exploration of the characters first met in the original film and their children, newly introduced. The older generation are still largely social-democrats and proponents of Quebec nationalism, but both political and economic developments after the “Quiet Revolution” of the 1960s, as well as their own aging, make their left-wing stance seem somewhat anachronistic.
Alice's Odyssey, 1h42
Directed by Denise Filiatrault
Origin Quebec
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Actors Sophie Lorain, Martin Drainville, Pierrette Robitaille, Mitsou, Marc Labrèche, Danielle Ouimet
Roles Chaperon Rouge / Institutrice
Rating53% 2.659262.659262.659262.659262.65926
Alice Tremblay, une mère célibataire, participe en rêve et malgré elle, à un conte de fées. C'est ainsi qu'elle revisite différents contes qu'elle lit régulièrement à sa fille. Elle fera des rencontres peu orthodoxes : un petit chaperon rouge et un loup portés sur le sexe, un prince charmant gauche qui ne pense qu'à conquérir les jeunes filles, une fée marraine étourdie et son pendant négatif, une fée Carabosse méchante (mais technologique !) du nom de la reine Rebecca, une Blanche-Neige vieillissante avec ses sept amours, un Père Noël amoureux de la belle Shéhérazade, un roi macho marié à une reine féministe ainsi que plusieurs autres.
Coyote
Coyote (1992)
, 1h35
Directed by Richard Ciupka
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Mitsou, Patrick Labbé (acteur québécois), Claude Legault, Jean-Claude Dreyfus, Michel Barrette, François Massicotte
Roles Louise Coyote
Rating44% 2.2123552.2123552.2123552.2123552.212355
Le froid, les raffineries, les rues tristes de Pointe aux Trembles, les hot dogs extra graisse de chez Larry. Chomi, aspirant réalisateur, rencontre la belle Coyotte, de qui il tombe follement amoureux. Aux yeux de Chomi, Coyotte représente la blonde parfaite, pour elle, Chomi est la personification même de l'espoir absolu qu'elle porte en l'avenir. Mais, la vie est plus forte et après plusieurs chassés croisés, bébés avortés, voulus ou en devenir, le couple se sépare. C'est bien connu : les histoires d'amour finissent mal, en général.