Julie Crocheti�re is an independent Canadian singer/songwriter, pianist and arranger. Julie Crocheti�re began learning to play the piano at the age of six, continuing her classical piano studies for another eight years. At the age of thirteen Crocheti�re wrote her first song. In high school Crocheti�re began developing her singing voice, before going on to study music for two years at Coll�ge Lionel-Groulx. In 2000, Julie Crocheti�re joined the Popstars reality television series which was nationally televised on the Canadian Global Television Network where she became part of the girl band which came to be known as Sugar Jones, on the Universal Music Group label. Sugar Jones did two national tours and released the album Sugar Jones which went platinum generating top ten hits first with "How Much Longer" and then with "Days Like That" Sugar Jones disbanded in 2002. In 2003 Crocheti�re independently released her first EP, Caf�, which led to appearances at many prestigious jazz festivals, such as the Beaches Jazz Festival in Toronto, Ottawa International Jazz Festival and Montreal International Jazz Festival, CMW and NXNE. 

July 10th, 1980 in Montreal (Age 44)