Céline et Liette (Celine Lomez et Liette Lomez)

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Origin: Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦
Biography:

Céline et Liette were the twin-sister duo Céline Lomez and Liette Lomez, part of the late-1960s Québec pop generation that emerged directly from television, youth programming, and the province’s rapidly professionalizing studio scene. Like many young performers of the period, they moved fluidly between light variété material, yé-yé-influenced pop, and novelty-leaning repertoire, all delivered with a bright, tightly harmonized vocal style that suited both radio and television formats.

Their first commercial recordings appeared in 1968 on RCA Victor’s Canada International series, a catalogue created to showcase French-language Canadian artists within a modern pop framework. Their debut single, Dans l’bon vieux temps b/w 1-2-3-4 (Ma petite vache a mal aux pattes), captures the tone of the era perfectly: short, catchy, youth-oriented songs framed by polished orchestration under the direction of Pierre Nolès, one of Montréal’s most active pop arrangers and conductors of the period. The production places the duo squarely within the contemporary Québec studio sound—playful, radio-friendly, and confident in its bilingual cultural footing.

In 1969, Céline et Liette expanded their recorded output with Les fleurs d’amour (I’m a Drifter) b/w Une grosse glace au chocolat, released on the independent Cycle 2000 label. That single reflects the porous boundary between French-Canadian pop and Anglo-American repertoire at the end of the 1960s, pairing a French-language presentation with material adapted from English-language pop songwriting. Like many Canadian releases of the time, it illustrates how young Québec artists navigated multiple musical worlds at once, reshaping international material for local audiences while maintaining a distinct francophone identity.

Although the duo’s recording career was brief, it marked an important early chapter for both sisters. Céline Lomez went on to establish a prominent solo career in music and film during the 1970s, becoming one of Québec’s most recognizable performers of the decade. Liette Lomez continued working in music as well, later appearing in group projects during the disco era. Together, their short-lived partnership stands as a concise snapshot of Québec’s late-1960s pop ecosystem—youthful, media-driven, stylistically open, and deeply rooted in Montréal’s studio and television culture.
-Robert Williston