“I roamed for miles in imposed silence until I reclaimed my voice. No one knew my secret battles behind my smile until I came foward with the music project, Hippocampus. ”
— Marie Martine Bédard
The Hippocampus Project music album aims to raise awareness and empathy for survivors of sexual assaults. It paints in nine songs the different pathways of survival and transforms trauma into a human work.
Every song has the potential to be a conversation starter for victims.
* All profits from sales will be given to the non-profit organisation which supports victims of sexual assaults in Quebec, RQCALACS.
Born in Montreal, Marie Martine Bédard is a singer, songwriter and survivor.
As a teenager, it is on bass guitar that she makes her debut on the “rock” scene with Patrick Bourgeois, who later became famous with band “The BB”,
As a rising music figure of the Montreal underground music scene of the 80s and 90s, she has the chance to work with many artists. She performs close to a thousand concerts until she sees years of efforts and momentum short-circuited.
Two months after the birth of her first child and while the summer sun was bursting her city with life, she attends the slaying of her soul and body. She is the victim of a sexual predator.
After a forced shutdown of a nearly a decade, in 2009 she embarks upon a healing journey through music studies with the renown Berklee College of Music. In 2010 she receives the celebrity-sponsored “Steve Vai Scholarship”. In 2014, she obtains a Professional Certificate in Guitar and in 2018 a Bachelor Degree of Professional Studies in Songwriting. She is the first French Canadian and Québécoise obtaining a degree with Berklee Online. A nice way to come back to life knowing that she was one of the members of the first all girls band in Quebec, Blue Oil.
Jun 15 2019
Libres Artistes
Le vendredi 14 février 2019-06-14
MM & Ophelia présente des extraits du projet Hippocampe au 40e anniversaire des RQCALACS
Montréal, le samedi 15 juin 2019 ¾ Dans le cadre du 40e anniversaire des RQCALACS célébré à Montréal, Marie…
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Apr 3 2019
Feb 8 2019
MusiQc sans Frontières Le vendredi 8 février 2019
Pour diffusion immédiate
À la veille du lancement de la campagne de sociofinancement du projet Hippocampe de Marie Martine Bédard, le hasard a voulu que le journalise Félix B. Desfossés raconte sur…
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Aug 22 2018
August 22nd 2018 ~ Marie Martine Bédard has a new logo that was designed by the artist Julie Desmarais and which refers to the metaphor of the artist's project "Hippocampus" and explained for the first time on her blog…
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Jun 24 2018
May 12th 2018 ~ On May 12th, Marie Martine joined a thousand new graduates from Berklee College of Music and walked the stage of the 2018 official Commencement Ceremony at the Agganis of the Boston University in Massachusetts. "It…
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Mar 17 2018
March 17th 2018 ~ Marie Martine Bédard is stronger than ever and has a fantastic 2018 ahead!
With nine years of studies in music in the rearview mirror, she is ready to bask in the optimism of a…
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Feb 14 2016
On February 20th at Les Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, Erik Cimon (Les citadins du rebut global) presents the New Wave movement of the Montreal scene in his documentary Montreal New Wave. "Out to meet those who were the key…
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Dec 17 2015
As metaphors are waiting to come to life, Marie Martine is currently working on her next album on which everyone will have the opportunity to hear the music with their eyes and follow a singular odyssey from the survivors'…
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Oct 25 2015
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Marie Martine was happy to come back last week from the Chicago first DIY Musician conference. She had an awesome time and met great people, learned a great deal too.
We thought of sharing some Martine's…
Read moreAs an introduction to what awaits this EP aims to introduce to you Marie Martine upcoming project, Hippocampus.
Produced by : Jean-François Lemieux & Marie Martine Bédard
Ce démo est mis en vente pour financer la réalisation du Projet Hippocampe.
Réalisation : Jean-François Lemieux et Marie Martine Bédard
Mix et Mastering : Jean-François Lemieux et Reggie Thompson Production
Qu'est-ce que le projet Hippocampe?
En cours de réalisation, le projet hippocampe est un album de musique qui vise à sensibiliser les gens à la cause des victimes d’agressions sexuelles.
Réalisé d'abord en deux langues distinctes, l'anglais et le français, il peint en neuf chansons les différents chemins qu'emprunte la survivance.
Les profits des ventes iront à l’organisme à but non lucratif qui soutient les victimes d’agressions sexuelles au Québec, RQCALACS.
Berklee College of Music
Bachelor Degree of Professional Studies in Songwriting
Professional Certificate in Guitar
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Thank you to all those who have supported me through difficult times.
Thank you to my two sons and Valerie for their unconditioannal love.
Thank you to Jean-François Lemieux for wanting to coproduce the Hippocampus project. Without his support, his talent and his great patience, it would have been difficult for me to keep going through the storms. Part of what you hear on my EP, it's him!
Thank you to all those who did collaborate so far with their talent to the Hippocampus Project: Kimura Byol, Daniel Desmarais, Julie Desmarais, Jacqueline Van de Geer, Julie Laurin, Morty, Ella Negrescu, Pascale, artiste peintre, Wil Putt, Karine Rathle, Christine Roberge, Marie-France Thibault, Selvi Subramanian and Josée B.
Thanks to my Berklee Online Family, for the knowledge, guidance and challenges.
Thank you to Muriel Salmona for her work and to all my sisters-in-arms.
A special thank to my emotional support dog, Ophelia..
Marie Martine
