[9] Cécile Tremblay-Matte, musicologist, recognizes Christine Charbonneau in her book La chanson écrite au féminin, as the French Canadian female songwriter who had the most songs recorded by different artists in Québec during the period of 1960 to 1980.

[16] She toured for several years in the Québec coffee houses called "les boites à chansons," which were proliferating at the time.

Charbonneau started giving songs to different singers, such as Ginette Ravel, one of the major artists of this epoch.

[19] Charbonneau made her first album with Sélect Records in 1963 : The title was "Les insolences d'une jeune femme".

[20] On 24 June 1965, Charbonneau was invited to participate at the Saint-John-Baptiste Celebration Day,[21] (today the National Holiday) in Québec.

She was invited several times on the Coast to Coast CBC Television series Chansons (TV series) produced by Anton Van de Water, where she was singing in company of many other artists including Joni Mitchell[25] Jacques Blanchet, Margo McKinnon,[26] Pauline Julien and Gordon Lightfoot, the Travelers[27] In 1968, she made a third album entitled Christine with Gamma Records,[28] and François Dompierre was her orchestra director.

[29] In 1968, Charbonneau had her first Télévision Summer Series at CBC SRC and co-hosted with Jacques Blanchet the musical show "Tête heureuse".

[43] Viens t'étendre aux creux de mes bras,[44] Aide-moi à passer la nuit,[45] J'ai dit non, Quand tes yeux, C'est parce que je t'aime , Est-ce si facile , Le chemin de tes rêves – all songs who have featured in the Top Ten on the Quebec charts and were among Claude Valade's hits[46][47][48] that became standards on Quebec radio airplay.