- 10
- performances by invitation at the Montreal International Jazz Festival, 1981–2007
- 5
- albums recorded, 2001–2018
- 15
- years teaching jazz and pop voice at Vanier College, Montreal
- 3
- formats: solo, duo or trio
Born in Lachute, Quebec, Johanne Desforges has had the stage in her blood for as long as she can remember.
In the early 1970s she spent four years touring Western Canada and the United States, singing the hits of the day six or seven nights a week in clubs.
A classically trained pianist since the age of nine, she has taught voice since 1976, including fifteen years at Vanier College in Montreal, and continues today with private lessons and her site Mouvement et voix. She has also lent her voice as a backing singer for commercials, records and television.
Invited ten times to the Montreal International Jazz Festival and with five albums to her name, she now lives in Costa Rica, where she performs smooth jazz, French chanson and classic American pop, solo, as a duo or as a trio, around Lake Arenal and on the Guanacaste beaches.
