“I was very lucky growing up,” says Charlotte Cardin. “I had a really beautiful childhood.” The 30-year-old Quebecois singer is calling from her apartment in Montreal, near Mount Royal, the quiet suburban town where she and her older sister, Camille, spent their days riding bikes, playing soccer, and dancing in the living room to their parents’ favorite songs. “There was always music in the house,” she says. “My dad’s a huge rock ’n’ roll guy, and my mom loved French [singers].” Her sister added pop to the mix. “That’s when I discovered girl bands—and Celine, Britney, Christina,” she says with a laugh. “I was hooked.”
These days, Cardin splits her time between Montreal and Paris, where she lives with her longtime boyfriend, the musician and Bonjour Tristesse actor Aliocha Schneider, and juggles a constellation of careers: singer-songwriter, globe-trotting performer, L’Oréal ambassador, runway model, and viral TikTok phenomenon.
