Photos by Brad Goldstein – Nicholas Durocher, known professionally as Talk, is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician from Ottawa, Ontario, best known for his 2021 hit single “Run Away to Mars”. A native of Ottawa, Durocher has been active in the music business for a number of years, including a stint as a bassist in a country band, but had limited success prior to the early 2020s. Out of work, he was forced to move back to his parents’ basement in the suburban neighbourhood of Stittsville in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Feeling lonely and depressed, he wrote “Run Away to Mars” overnight after watching the film Interstellar.
