Career
Originally from Mascouche, Quebec, Carse began his career in the 1990s, with his earliest hits being French translations of country hits such as "Achy Breaky Heart" and "Boot Scootin" Boogie". His breakthrough album, 1993"s Stef Carse, also included French translations of songs by Elvis Presley and Roy Orbison, while his followup, 1994"s Un Dernier slow, concentrated much more strongly on his own original songwriting. He has sold over 500,000 records, earning him a Juno nomination for Best Male Artist at the Juno Awards of 1994.
In 1999, he successfully entered the mainstream Canadian market when he donated a song for the Special Olympics on an album entitled.
Featuring artists like Alan Jackson, Donna Summer, Brooks & Dunn and Kevin Bacon, Carse"s song led off the album, which went gold and raised over $2 millions of Netto profit for the Canadian Special Olympics. Carse released his first American album, Reach Out, in 2006.
Reach Out was also promoted by a 60-minute concert special which aired internationally, including on Public Broadcasting Service in the United States. Carse"s collaborators on the Reach Out project were Eric Schilling, Joe Hogue and Gilles Godard.
Carse donated the self-penned title track, "Reach Out" to the American Red Cross in September, just three days before the Hurricane Katrina disaster.
The Red Cross fell in love with the song, named it the Official Thank You Song of the American Red Cross and used it to thank volunteers and donors. The album The Best People’s Opera 2010, which features Carse"s original song "Number More Masquerade", reached #1 in Turkey in March 2010, and remained in the Top 5 for over eight months. In 2012, Carse donated a song to Whole Foods for The Whole Planet Foundation to help fight poverty around the world.
In 2013, Carse acted for the first time in the romantic comedy film Marriage Material with Maddy Curley.
