Laura Niquay

About

The artist

Laura Niquay is an Atikamekw singer-songwriter from Wemotaci in Quebec's Mauricie region, now based in Trois-Rivières. Quebec's arts council listed Niquay in Trois-Rivières in its official 2024 to 2025 grant records, while current Musique Nomade and Nikamowin profiles preserve her relationship to Wemotaci, the Atikamekw language, and her active professional identity. Niquay released Waratanak independently in 2015. The exact Spotify identity carries a later 2018 digital edition, followed by the 2019 collaboration Mote Mote and the 2021 album Waska Matisiwin. Produced with Simon Walls and Musique Nomade, Waska Matisiwin brought folk, rock, blues, and grunge textures together around Niquay's writing and unmistakable voice. It was named to the 2021 Polaris Music Prize Long List. The SOCAN Foundation recognized Niquay as the grand-prize recipient of its TD Indigenous Songwriter Award, and the 2022 ADISQ galas awarded her both Indigenous Artist of the Year and Indigenous Languages Album of the Year for Waska Matisiwin. In October 2024, Niquay released Comptines Atikamekw - E aistahiak (Les six saisons), a children's album created through a cultural and language-transmission project initiated by the Six Seasons Early Childhood Centre in Wemotaci. Her May 2026 single Nosim, written for her granddaughter, opened the next chapter of her principal catalogue. Current 2026 artist and festival records describe Niquay touring the Nir Wactenama show with an all-women band featuring Raphaëlle Chouinard, Sarah Dion, and Marie-Philippe Thibault-Desbiens. The show and forthcoming fall 2026 album introduce deeper blues textures and vocal harmonies while continuing her focus on resilience, inner light, community, and the strength of Indigenous women. The exact Spotify identity currently contains six distinct principal album and single containers in the Canadian market from November 2018 through May 2026: three provider-classified albums and three provider-classified singles. MusicList preserves those provider classifications and separately notes the original 2015 release history documented by Indigenous music registries. Musique Nomade's current artist page links the exact Spotify, Bandcamp, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube identities. Professional messages should begin through that artist page; MusicList does not republish direct email addresses. Spotify media is rendered live with provider attribution and a monogram fallback.