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Julie Doiron
Canadian singer-songwriter (born 1972)
Julie Elaine Doiron is a Canadian singer-songwriter of Acadian heritage. She has been the bassist and co-vocalist for the Canadian indie rock band Eric's Trip since its formation in 1990.
Doiron has also released ten solo albums, beginning with 1996's Broken Girl, and is also the lead singer for the band Julie and the Wrong Guys.
Doiron started playing guitar (later switching to bass) in Eric's Trip at the age of 18, having joined the band at the insistence of her then-boyfriend, Eric's Trip guitarist Rick White. Shortly before the band's break-up in 1996, she released a solo album under the name Broken Girl, which followed two previous 7-inch EPs ("Dog Love, Pt. 2" & "Nora") also released under that name. All of her subsequent material has been released under her own name. She started her own label, Sappy Records, to release several of her solo efforts. Although most of her solo material has been written and performed in English, she also released an album of French language material, Désormais, as well as several EPs of material sung in Spanish.
Julie Doiron was born in 1972 in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. She studied photography at Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada.
At age 10 she began taking piano lessons, studied saxophone in school from age 12 to 16. She began playing guitar when she was 15.
She joined her then boyfriend Rick White in the band from 1990 to their split up in 1996.
In 1990 she started her own record label Sappy Records to release cassettes by and from 1993 on also vinyl by the band and other projects, including her solo work as Broken Girl. She was joined by her later husband Jon Claytor in 1994 which whom she ran the label till 2000, when it went into hiatus. It was shortly revived in 2006.
In 1996 she released first solo album compiling her previous two 7" singles recorded under her alias Broken Girl and new material.
A year later she signed with Sub Pop and started releasing under her maiden name.
Since late 2005 she also performs with Shotgun & Jaybird, who in turn support her during her solo tours.
She has three children with Jon Claytor and another child with partner Christopher Leigh McLaughlin.
Also known as: Doiron, J. Doiron, JD, Julie, Julie Claytor
From Discogs (free to use). Their entry
Liner notes
Julie Doiron, the records, oldest first
Loneliest in the Morning
1997 album
Julie Doiron and the Wooden Stars
1999 album
Will You Still Love Me?
1999 ep
Désormais
2001 album
Heart and Crime
2002 album
Julie Doiron / Okkervil River
2003 album
Goodnight Nobody
2004 album
Woke Myself Up
2007 album
Lost Wisdom
2008 album
I Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day
2009 album
Daniel, Fred & Julie
2009 album
Split: Julie Doiron / Calm Down, It’s Monday
2009 ep
So Many Days
2012 album
Canta en Español, Vol. II
2017 ep
Canta en Español, Vol. III
2018 ep
Canta en Español, Vol. IV
2019 ep
Lost Wisdom, pt. 2
2019 album
I Thought of You
2021 album
Julie & Dany
2022 album
Split 2
2024 ep
Together
2026 album
Records from MusicBrainz; covers from the Cover Art Archive.