Janelle’s love of music started at a young age as her mother taught her old French folk songs and encouraged her to sing at church. On July 10th, 1999, Jason & Janelle married at St. Emile’s Catholic Church in her small French hometown of Legal, AB. With Jason doing double duty as her manager and guitar player, Janelle was soon headed for unprecedented success. Her professional Christian music and speaking career was launched in 2002, when the 22 year old dynamo was chosen to be the World Youth Day theme song singer for Pope John Paul II’s visit to Toronto, Canada. There, the bilingual singer sang for the late pope and over 1 million people live, all the while being 7 months pregnant with their first son, Eric! Since then she has released 3 radio chart topping albums, has appeared in numerous radio, TV, magazine, and Newspaper interviews and has been garnered with several music industry awards including, “Best New Artist”, “Contemporary Album of the year”, “Female Singer of the Year” and 2 Juno nominations, which are the equivalent of the American Grammys. She has toured extensively across Canada, the USA, New Zealand and parts of Europe and continues to inspire lives with her Christ centered testimony and pop rock grooves. Janelle currently lives in Lloydminster, AB, alongside her husband Jason, as they homeschool their 8 children, Eric, Monique, Joshua, Michael, Jonathan, Justin, Jace and Noah.