Joe Bocan

Joe Bocan
Birth name	Johanne Beauchamp
Born	1957
Genres	pop music
Occupation(s)	singer, actress, radio host
Years active	1980s–present

Joe Bocan is the stage name of Johanne Beauchamp (born September 8, 1957), a Canadian pop singer and actress from Quebec. She is best known for her 1989 single "Repartir à zéro".

Beginning her career in theatre, she later began performing as a folk singer and won an award from the Festival international de la chanson de Granby in 1983.

By 1985, she was performing a regular show, Paradoxale, at Le Milieu in Montreal. The show incorporated some of the multimedia performance techniques then being used by contemporaneous artists such as Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Laurie Anderson and Jane Siberry. In 1986, she was given her first television special on Télévision de Radio-Canada, and was one of the performers at Canada's first major benefit concert for HIV/AIDS alongside Michel Louvain, Peter Pringle, Denny Christianson and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens. During this era, she also had a regular acting role on the Quebec children's television series Minibus. She won a Félix Award for Best Pop Show in 1986 for Paradoxale.

Her self-titled debut album was released in 1988, and spawned singles including "Paradoxale", "On parle des yeux" and "Repartir à zéro". She led the 1989 Félix nominations with 10 nods, but won only the award for best pop-rock show that year. The following year, she won the Félix for Best Female Singer.

She followed up with Les Désordres in 1991, and had another hit single with "Apocalypso". In this era, she continued to take acting roles in television series such as Piège infernal and La Misère des riches. While filming La Misère des riches, she met musician and actor Charles Biddle, Jr., the son of legendary Canadian jazz musician Charlie Biddle; they soon became a couple and later married.

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