N0rth is a self-taught singer-songwriter and producer since 2015. Raised in Montreal, she chose to settle in Bury in the Eastern Townships with her two cats. She performs folk-blues accompanied by folk-psychedelic instrumentation. Her voice has been compared to those of Patrick Watson or the late Lhasa de Sela. Her musical universe has been likened to that of Agnes Obel or Sufjan Stevens. A multi-instrumentalist, both in concert and in the studio, she alternates between the autoharp and the banjo, along with accordion, piano, and ukulele. She records and mixes her own music. Her lyrics speak of relationships with others and with nature, eco-anxiety and alternative femininity — the feeling of powerlessness brought on by our excessive times, and the importance of the forest.
N0rth released her first EP in 2015, where she added electroacoustic soundscapes to a folk-psychedelic sound. In the fall of 2017, she received a research and creation grant from the Canada Arts Council, which gave birth, in the winter of 2018, to her second album, The Rusty Queendom, where she collaborated with inspiring musicians on the arrangements and pushed her electroacoustic research further. In the winter of 2020, she released Solo Piano, a self-produced lockdown project. In the winter of 2022, she released the single “That Day,” which appeared the following fall on the album Songs for the Forest. In the winter of 2024, she released “N31G3,” an EP entirely dedicated to winter, which she recorded, produced, and mixed herself in two weeks. In the spring of 2025, she launched “Town Hall Session,” a collaborative five-track EP recorded in 2023 in the old Town Hall of Gould and funded by the CALQ.
She is now preparing the release of an EP featuring various collaborations, including with Urbain Desbois, harpist Sarah Pagé, and cellist Jonah Fortune. On stage, N0rth channels a powerful and mystical energy that envelops and comforts the listener, leaving them floating on a magical cloud. N0rth, whose real name is Chloé Fortier, also moves in the world of dance. In 2013, she co-founded Lindex, a self-managed dance-theatre improvisation troupe. She co-founded the collective le Ministère des Marches Absurdes and presented the Bal des Fossils in 2019. She leads free dance workshops and teaches oriental dance.