Melissa Laveaux & Pierre Lapointe

Mélissa Laveaux emerged in the mid-2000s with music characterized by an eclectic mix of folk-pop, rock, and blues, with nods to her Haitian heritage. She was born January 9, 1985 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to Haitian parents, but grew up in Ottawa, Ontario. In 2006 she recorded and self-produced her debut record, Camphor & Copper, a multilinguistic work that put her fluid guitar playing and rich voice out front. Alongside original compositions, the album included covers of Elliott Smith's "Needle in the Hay" and Eartha Kitt's "I Want to Be Evil." In the wake of the record's...