About
Andrina

BIO

Andrina Turenne is an acclaimed singer-songwriter from Winnipeg Manitoba. Her songs both in French and English explore themes of home, nature, connection to each other, connection to ourselves and to the land. Andrina’s solo debut Bold as Logs was released in the spring of 2023, charting on independent radio across Canada and the United States. She followed up in 2024 with Je suis un arbre, a Francophone EP that earned her a nomination for Francophone Artist of the Year at the Western Canadian Music Awards.

On stage, Andrina shares a candid and honest experience with her audience, offering moments of humour, vulnerability, joy and longing. Her twenty-five years working and singing in the music industry have taken her around the world and are a testament to the impact of her live performance. 

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Andrina grew up in a tight-knit Franco-Manitoban and Métis circle, surrounded by relatives and friends who sang during visits, and played regularly at community gatherings. From the four-part harmony ballads by the campfire to the raucous rounds of chansons-à-répondre thundering out from kitchen parties, Andrina’s love of music and singing was solidified at a young age, and grew with every opportunity to do it. 

By high school, Andrina had already formed several bands and by graduation, she was touring and playing festivals in the summers. In 2007, she co-founded the vocal group Chic Gamine, which would go on to release 5 records, and received the 2009 Juno Award for Best Roots album. Together, they toured extensively throughout Canada, the US, the UK and Germany, opening for acts such as Smokey Robinson and Lake Street Dive, sharing festival bills with Blue Rodeo and Mavis Staples, and making meaningful connections across the North American roots music scene.

After the group disbanded in 2015, Andrina began taking composition commissions for film and theatre projects, and was a one-woman band for a show that ran at the National Arts Center. She also toured through Australia, Denmark and the UK with Vancouver’s The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer, and recorded a live record with them at the King Eddy in Calgary. Throughout this period, she continued creating new work for herself, and trusting a renewed artistic vision that was rooting down. She officially launched her solo project at the 2020 Indigenous Music Summit in New Orleans.

In 2021-2022, she completed production on her debut album and entered a four-month residency in Louisiana. She had been visiting the southwest part of the state regularly since 2001, having built friendships and musical ties, but this was a calling to go deeper into connection between the two places, exploring the commonalities in struggle and celebration. In Louisiana, she found an enthusiastic audience for her bilingual music, a tangible resonance with her stories, and an inspiring circle of collaborators and like-minded artists. Andrina’s deep rooted connection with Louisiana earned her a key to the city of Abbeville in 2025, presented by the Mayor. 

Andrina’s powerful live performance has led to invitations to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Festival International de Lafayette, Folk on the Rocks in Yellowknife, The Canmore Folkfest, Big Sound in Brisbane and dozens of other festival stages.  She has toured consistently, putting miles on the road through Alberta, Ontario, New Brunswick and the Southern United States. She has been featured on national television in Canada, live radio broadcasts in Louisiana, and her songs have appeared on television and been added into rotation on SiriusXM Radio.

Andrina continues to evolve with an unwavering commitment to her craft, honoring all the parts of the experience as she keeps traveling the road. She spent the summer and fall of 2025 between the northern forests of Manitoba and the bayous of southwest Louisiana, writing songs that grew from these two worlds and the spaces between them. She will begin production on her second full-length album in February 2026, with plans to release it in the late fall.