Crystal Plamondon is a trilingual singer and performer of Cajun

Cajun

Cajuns are an ethnic group mainly living in the U.S. state of Louisiana, consisting of the descendants of Acadian exiles...

 and country music.

Plamondon's birth town was founded by her grandfather. She began singing publicly at the age of ten but didn’t record until 1991 when she made her own cassette. Plamondon lists her musical influences as Daniel Lanois

Daniel Lanois

Daniel Lanois born September 19, 1951 in Hull, Quebec) is a Canadian record producer, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter. He has released a number of albums of his own work and has produced albums for a wide variety of artists, including Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Willie...

, Zachary Richard

Zachary Richard

Zachary Richard is a Cajun singer/songwriter and poet. His music is an innovative combination of Cajun and Zydeco musical styles.-Biography:...

, Dolly Parton

Dolly Parton

Dolly Rebecca Parton is an American singer-songwriter, author, multi-instrumentalist, actress and philanthropist, best known for her work in country music. Dolly Parton has appeared in movies like 9 to 5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Steel Magnolias and Straight Talk...

, Sting, and Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris is an American singer-songwriter and musician. In addition to her work as a solo artist and bandleader, both as an interpreter of other composers' works and as a singer-songwriter, she is a sought-after backing vocalist and duet partner, working with numerous other artists including...

. She has released three CDs: Carpe Diem in 1993, La Rousse Farouche in 1996 and her most recent one Plus de Frontières in 2002. Plus de Frontières (english: No Borders) was nominated for a Western Canadian Music Award for “Outstanding Francophone Recording” in 2003. She speaks three languages: English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

, French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

, and Cree

Cree

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.

In 1992, she received the Molson Canadian ARIA (Alberta Recording Industry Association) Performer of the Year Award. In 1993, she was nominated for YWCA’s Tribute to Women Award, for Arts & Culture. In 1994, Plamondon was given formal recognition of her talents by being made an honorary citizen of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana

Breaux Bridge, Louisiana

Breaux Bridge is a city in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population is 8,139 as of the 2010 census. It is part of the Lafayette Metropolitan Statistical Area....

. Her music videos, Rendez-vous en Louisiane and Cajun Girl/ La Cajine filmed in Plamondon, Alberta, receive regular play in the southern U.S. and in Canada.

Plamondon had a television special filmed in Benin, West Africa and in her Alberta home in November, 1998 called Passeport Musique for Radio Canada. She has also performed live on Parliament Hill

Parliament Hill

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 in 1997 for the Canada Day

Canada Day

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 celebration; and on October 18, 2000 Crystal sang the Famous Five Anthem for the inauguration of the "Women are Persons!" monument on Parliament Hill to commemorate the day that women were declared "persons" in 1929.

Plamondon now lives in Millarville, Alberta, and performs at the Calgary Stampede

Calgary Stampede

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, local venues and at tour stops in Canada.

Singles

• Carpe Diem! (1993) marked Crystal's first #1 hit "Capitaine" followed quickly by "On va faire le rigodon" in France.

Albums

• La Rousse Farouche/ Wild Red (1996)
• Plus de Frontières - No Borders (2002) This CD was nominated for a Western Canadian Music Award for “Outstanding Francophone Recording”