Alexandra Hernandez

Alexandra Hernandez (born 1981) is a French singer-songwriter from Saint Pierre and Miquelon, an overseas collectivity of France located near the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.[1]

Biography

Alexandra Hernandez was born in Saint Pierre and Miquelon in 1981,[1][2] the daughter of an Algerian father and Miquelonnais mother.[3] Her mother is of Acadian background, dating back to the colonists' arrival on the archipelago.[4]

At age 18, Hernandez left the territory to study music at the University of Montreal,[3] where she studied saxophone for five years.[2] In 2004, after college, she moved to France.[3] There, she learned guitar and began writing songs, taking first prize in several European competitions.[2]

Her music is multicultural, balancing between her French and North American roots.[5] She sees herself as neither French, Acadian, or North American, but all three.[4] She "seeks to strengthen the ties between the French archipelago and its Canadian neighbors, the Atlantic Provinces."[6][7]

After settling for a period in Landes[1][3] and dividing her time between France, Quebec, and Saint Pierre and Miquelon,[8] Hernandez returned permanently to her home territory in 2015.[4] In 2017 she created the Festival Les Transboréales, an annual music festival in Saint Pierre and Miquelon.[6][9] It aims to bring together French and Canadian artists in unusual locations on the remote archipelago.[10][11]

Hernandez's work has been featured by the French Consulate-General in Moncton, Canada, as part of the Acadie Rock Festival, a celebration of Acadian culture.[6][12] She also represented her home country at a joint concert celebrating Overseas France at the Olympia in Paris in 2019.[13][14]

In additional to her musical efforts, Hernandez is also a poet. Her poems appeared in the book Saint-Pierre et Miquelon: Terre de Passions, in collaboration with the photographer Gregory Pol, in 2016.[15]

Discography
  • Ma Tranqu'île (2009)
  • Lula-Rose (2012)

References
  1. Saint-Genez, Emma (1 February 2011). "Festi'îles : une première escale avec la voyageuse Alexandra". SudOuest.fr (in French). Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  2. "Biographie ALEXANDRA HERNANDEZ". Info Concert (in French). Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  3. "Alexandra Hernandez chante Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon en ouverture de Fest'îles". Franceinfo (in French). 6 December 2016. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  4. Mousseau, Sylvie (1 August 2020). "Alexandra Hernandez: l'artiste de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon revient à la musique". Acadie Nouvelle (in French). Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  5. "Alexandra Hernandez". Agorila.
  6. "Retour sur le concert d'Alexandra Hernandez lors d'Acadie Rock". Consulat Général de France à Moncton (in French). Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  7. "Participation de l'artiste française Alexandra HERNANDEZ au Festival Acadie Rock 2020 en ligne". Consulat Général de France à Moncton (in French). Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  8. "Alexandra Hernandez". CDM Studio (in French).
  9. "VIDEO. Festival les Transboréales : le live, un archipel en musique". Outre-mer la 1ère (in French). 2 July 2020. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  10. Boulenger, Emilie (2 August 2018). "Succès du festival les Transboréales à Saint-Pierre et Miquelon". Saint-Pierre et Miquelon la 1ère (in French). Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  11. "Artistes français et canadiens réunis pour le festival des Transboréales à Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon". France tv & vous (in French). Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  12. "Est & Canada – Alexandra Hernandez a Acadie Rock". France Canada Culture. Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  13. Lahiton, Frédéric (1 September 2019). "Direction l'Olympia pour Alexandra Hernandez". Saint-Pierre et Miquelon la 1ère (in French). Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  14. Boulenger, Emilie (2 September 2019). "La saint-pierraise Alexandra Hernandez raconte son incroyable expérience sur la scène de l'Olympia". Saint-Pierre et Miquelon la 1ère (in French). Retrieved 24 September 2020.
  15. Pol, Grégory (2016). Saint-Pierre et Miquelon : terre de passions. Hernandez, Alexandra. Ivry-sur-Seine: Vilo. ISBN 978-2-7191-1019-5. OCLC 974830656.
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