Emilie-Claire Barlow

Emilie-Claire Barlow (born June 6, 1976) is a Canadian singer, arranger, record producer, and voice actress. She has released several albums on her label, Empress Music Group, and has voiced characters for animated television series. She performs in English, French, and Portuguese.

Barlow's first album, Sings, was released in 1998. She has received seven nominations for Canada's Juno Awards with her album Seule ce soir winning for best Jazz Vocal Recording in 2013 and Clear Day winning the same award in 2016. Seule ce soir also won Album of the Year – Jazz Interpretation at the 2013 ADISQ Awards. Barlow was also nominated for the Jack Richardson Producer of the Year Award at the 2016 Juno Awards.

Barlow was named Female Vocalist of the Year at the 2008 National Jazz Awards. She has named as influences Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, and Stevie Wonder.

Barlow has voiced various characters for animated television series, including Sailor Mars and Sailor Venus in Sailor Moon, Courtney, Laurie and Ellody in the original Total Drama series, Alice Gehabich in both Bakugan Battle Brawlers (season 1) and New Vestroia, Chrissy in 6teen, Mrs. Ridgemount in Stoked, Bunny in Almost Naked Animals and Theresa Falcone (McDougall) in Fugget About It.''

Early life
Born in Toronto to parents who were professional musicians, Barlow grew up in recording studios and by age seven had begun a career singing television and radio commercials. Barlow's grandfathers were ventriloquist Cy Leonard and actor Bob Homme (who played The Friendly Giant). Her father is award-winning jazz drummer Brian Barlow (aka Brian Leonard). Her mother, Judy Tate, is a composer, arranger and singer. Her uncle was Richard Homme, a Canadian jazz bassist who died 6 May 2011.

She was encouraged by her parents to sing and study several instruments including piano, cello, clarinet, and violin. Barlow studied voice at the Etobicoke School of Arts and music theory and arranging at Humber College.

Discography



 * Sings (Rhythm Tracks, 1998)
 * Tribute (Rhythm Tracks, 2001)
 * Happy Feet (Rhythm Tracks, 2003)
 * Like a Lover (Empress, 2005)
 * Winter Wonderland (Empress, 2006)
 * The Very Thought of You (Empress, 2007)
 * Haven't We Met? (Empress, 2009)
 * The Beat Goes On (Empress, 2010)
 * Seule ce soir (Empress, 2012)
 * Live in Tokyo (eOne, 2014)
 * Clear Day (eOne, 2015)
 * Lumières d'hiver (Empress, 2017)
 * Spark Bird (Empress, 2023)

As guest

 * Peter Appleyard, Sophisticated Ladies, (Linus, 2012)
 * Melanie Doane, A Thousand Nights (Prairie Ocean, 2008)
 * Matt Dusk, My Funny Valentine: The Chet Baker Songbook (Royal Crown, 2013)
 * Amanda Tosoff, Earth Voices (Empress, 2021)
 * Dave Weckl and Jay Oliver, Carousel (self-release, 2014)