The two-time JUNO Award winning singer-songwriter from Montreal, Dominique Fils-Aimé, is an
artist that puts the history of African-American musical culture into the heart of her work,
reflecting on the social realities that influenced the genres of blues, jazz and soul.
Her debut full-length album Nameless, launched in 2018, was about confronting historical
silences and sorrows. This blues-tinged album has become an audiophile’s reference recording
across the globe and led to two sold out shows at the Montreal International Jazz Festival in
2018.
In 2019, her second album, Stay Tuned! was a call for revolution. This album won the 2020
JUNO Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year as well as the Félix prize for Best Jazz Album at
the 2019 ADISQ Gala, was shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize and featured among the 19
best Canadian albums of 2019 by CBC. Dominique Fils-Aimé was also nominated that same
year as Radio-Canada’s 2019-2020 “Revelation in Jazz”.
Following this album, she toured all over Canada’s Jazz festival circuit in the summer of 2019.
She was nominated for the Félix Prize for “Anglophone Show of the Year” at the 2020 ADISQ
Gala and did her first shows in France and at the Winter Jazz Festival in New York City.
In 2021, she closed the final chapter of her album trilogy with Three Little Words, a call for
reconciliation. The record received rave reviews in prestigious publications all around the
country and in the world. It made the Polaris Short List, claimed the #1 spot for best-selling
album in Quebec and hit #2 in Canada, with over three hundred media mentions worldwide. In
2022 she presented her show in front of a sold out Théâtre Maisonneuve during the Montreal
International Jazz Festival and across Europe during the summer. She was invited to perform a
double bill with Diana Krall at Jazz in Marciac and with Melody Gardot at Jazz en Ville in
France.
Harmonizing is one of Dominique Fils-Aimé’s primary sources of inspiration. She loves to get
lost in the process of creating because it brings her into a timeless state. In this state, she
experiences a contentment that gives a magical quality to her work—undefinable, yet truly
authentic.
Her fourth album entitled Our Roots Run Deep was released on Ensoul Records in September
2023 and is the start of a new trilogy. It has won the 2024 JUNO Award for “Vocal Jazz Album
of the Year”, and the music video for the track ‘My Mind At Ease’ was nominated for Best
International R&B/Soul Video and Best Choreography in a Video at the UK Music Video
Awards.
Dominique Fils-Aimé released her first single in French, “Moi je t’aime” on June 6th and is
currently writing new songs for her upcoming album slated for release in 2026.
