It’s an event I’ve long been ashamed of in my life.
Lou-Adriane Cassidy has undeniably been the queen of the 47th ADISQ Gala, held on November 9, 2025 at Montreal’s Place des Arts.
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Throughout her numerous performances on stage, the 28-year-old singer‑songwriter highlighted the people who have accompanied her to victory and made a point of warmly thanking her team.
“Music for me is about sharing. Everything I’ve lived through gained value because of all the people with whom I built it, and I shared it.”
After posing for the press with Félix, arms full of bouquets, she spoke backstage to HollywoodPQ about a key member of her artistic team: Alexandre Martel, her boyfriend, who directed her project Journal d’un loup-garou. She also shares the Author and Composer of the Year award with him.
Her pillar, both personal and professional
“What is it like to share so much with one person, both artistically and personally?”
“It’s vulnerable, it’s intense, it’s sometimes difficult. It’s especially rewarding because we understand each other as people. From the start, we shared a common vision that we have pursued,” Lou-Adriane explains to us.
She confides that when she loses confidence or grows afraid, Alex “always stays straight,” and he has always guided her while giving her plenty of space.
“I feel incredibly lucky to share his life,” says the young artist.
We then asked her if she could recall a moment when she felt a real artistic spark between them.
According to the artist, their synergy built gradually. At the time when Alex Martel was shaping her second album, Lou-Adriane Cassidy vous dit: Bonsoir, she was still “having trouble understanding the place each of them should take.” Yet Journal d’un loup-garou marked a turning point in finding their creative balance, “each understanding their place in the process.”
The shame she carried… and how she turned it into a melody
While receiving the Félix for Song of the Year for Dis-moi dis-moi dis-moi alongside Alexandre Martel, Lou-Adriane Cassidy said: “It’s a song that talks about my father’s abandonment. Alex helped me write it. He brought that external perspective with me. Without him, I wouldn’t have been able to write that song.”
“It’s an event I’ve long been ashamed of in my life. Now I’m proud of what I’ve built with him,” she added.
The rising star explains that the trigger for addressing more personal subjects in Journal d’un loup-garou came to her while writing this song, the first she composed for the album:
“It became clear rather quickly that I wanted to talk about my father (…) I had wanted to for a long time, but I couldn’t find the right angle, the right way to talk about it,” the artist tells our team.
“It’s like baby lala,” she says, laughing.
“It felt like it was too close to me,” adds Cassidy.
“Writing this text in a more ‘raw’ voice, with varied vocabulary, helped me open up on this topic and also set the tone for the rest of the album.”
She also notes enjoying exploring “the duality between the raw, the vulnerable” and the fairy-tale spirit in Journal d’un loup-garou.
“I think it helped me name my wounds more clearly. Those grand fairy-tale figures can sometimes help us understand ourselves better,” she concludes.
Final Word
She walked away with a total of 12 wins at this awards show that she won’t soon forget.
We thank her for her time and incredible generosity, and offer our heartfelt congratulations as well as our best wishes for continued success in the rest of her promising career!
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