Dominique Fils-Aimé

The Profile

Canadian singer from Quebec of Haitian origin who blends jazz, soul, R&B and gospel. She released the EP Nameless (2018) and the album Stay Tuned! (2019), which received recognition including the 2020 Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year. She participated in La Voix (The Voice) in 2015.

Her work features sparse, minimal arrangements and thematic revisitations of historical civil-rights figures. The singer has asked audiences at concerts to reserve applause until the end of the entire performance.

The available review highlights Dominique Fils-Aimé's mixing of jazz, soul, R&B and gospel within sparse, deliberately minimal arrangements. Stay Tuned! revisits historical civil-rights figures and won the 2020 Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year. The reviewer recommends close, attentive listening to the album's textures and conceptual framework.