Rachel Paiement

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Rachel Paiement
Born1955 (age 6869)
Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, Canada
Genres Folk
Occupation(s)Singer, songwriter

Rachel Claire Paiement (born 1955; Sturgeon Falls, Ontario) is a Canadian musician and songwriter. She is best known as a former member, singer and songwriter for the Franco-Ontarian band CANO in the 1970s. [1] She also appeared as a guest musician on albums by Bruce Cockburn, Michel Rivard, Paul Hyde and many more. She appeared in theatre productions for the Théâtre du Nouvel-Ontario and worked as a session singer in Vancouver for many years.

Paiement left CANO in 1980 to join their producer, Jim Vallance, in Vancouver, later marrying him. Vallance is best known as the longtime songwriting partner of Bryan Adams and has also worked as music industry songwriter for many other artists. Vallance and David Foster primarily wrote the charity song "Tears Are Not Enough" in 1985 to which Paiement wrote the French verse.

Personal life

She and Vallance have a son, Jimmy, born in 1989, who became a member of music duo Bob Moses. Paiement has chosen not to maintain an active music career; when CANO reunited at the 2010 La Nuit sur l'étang festival in Sudbury, her sister Monique appeared as the band's female vocalist. [1]

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