peoplepill id: sarah-slean
SS
Canada
1 views today
1 views this week
Sarah Slean
Canadian singer-songwriter and musician

Sarah Slean

The basics

Quick Facts

Intro
Canadian singer-songwriter and musician
Places
Gender
Female
Place of birth
Pickering, Regional Municipality of Durham, Ontario, Canada
Age
47 years
Education
Dunbarton High School
Pickering, Regional Municipality of Durham, Canada
The Royal Conservatory of Music
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genre(s):
Instruments:
Audio
Spotify
The details (from wikipedia)

Biography

Sarah Hope Slean (born June 21, 1977) is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet, visual artist and occasional actress. She has released eleven albums to date (including EPs and live albums).

Career

Major recordings

Slean recorded her first EP Universe (1997) at the age of nineteen. It was followed by Blue Parade in 1998. Night Bugs was her first major label album, co-produced by Slean and Hawksley Workman, and released by WEA in Canada and Atlantic Records in the United States. It was heavily inspired by cabaret music.

Slean in 2005

On 28 September 2004, Slean released her fourth album, Day One. Here Slean's piano takes a less important spot for the first time in her career. The focus is more on beats, rhythms and guitar, which is evident in the album's first single, "Lucky Me". The up-tempo title track "Day One", and "Mary", a song about Slean's grandmother, were released as the second and third singles.

In October 2006, Slean released a mostly-live album, Orphan Music, which consists of songs recorded live at Toronto's Harbourfront Theatre and the Vancouver East Cultural Centre. Other new tracks featuring Slean and the piano were recorded at DNA Recording Facility in Toronto and Kensaltown Studios in the UK.

On 13 December 2007, Slean's website underwent a massive overhaul in preparation for her newest studio album, entitled The Baroness. Visitors to the new site were invited to sign up for Slean's new mailing list, and in doing so would be able to download a demo version of her newest single, "Get Home". People who pre-ordered the new album from the new website's store also received a download to the non-album track "Parasol". The Baroness was released on 11 March 2008. The iTunes version of the album included two additional non-album tracks, "The Rose" and "The Lonely Side of the Moon." In September 2008, Slean announced her intention to release the non-album tracks from The Baroness as an EP. Both Parasol and Modern Man have been confirmed by Slean in Question and Answer sessions in her official website. On 13 November 2008, the official Sarahslean.com newsletter announced the title for the EP to be The Baroness Redecorates. A full track list was also provided.

Slean released her fifth studio album, a double album entitled Land & Sea, on 27 September 2011. As previously with Beauty Lives, a 100 special handcrafted editions were sold of the album. Land & Sea is also Slean's first record to be released on vinyl.

Slean's latest studio album Metaphysics will be released in April 2017. A pre-order campaign for the album was held on PledgeMusic.

Other music work

In 2006, she contributed two covers ("Us and Them" and "Comfortably Numb") to Pink Floyd Redux, a modern 12-track tribute to Pink Floyd.

Another notable cover in Slean's repertoire is her down-tempo rendition of Our Lady Peace's guitar-driven song "Julia". Our Lady Peace has performed Slean's "piano" version of their song in their own concerts. Vocalist Raine Maida explained the origins of the piano version: "We’re gonna do a song from our first record now, that was given to us on a cassette tape, a very different version, from a girl named Sarah Slean from Toronto..."

Slean was also featured on the Fox TV network as the pianist in Sunrise, the fictional town where bodies started piling up in Murder in Small Town X, a short-lived reality TV series.

In October 2008, Slean performed at the first annual Canwest Cabaret Festival in Toronto. Slean performed sets of her own music accompanied by bassist Joe Phillips and drummer Mark Mariash, and also contributed to multi-artist "songbook" performances of the songs of Leonard Cohen and Kurt Weill.

In March 2009, Slean took part in the Juno Songwriter's Circle in Vancouver, alongside fellow songwriters Jim Cuddy, Jacob Hoggard (of Hedley), Doc Walker, Buffy Saint-Marie, Vancouver upstart Ndidi Onukwulu, and Hawksley Workman, who hosted. She played two songs from The Baroness, "Notes from the Underground" and "Looking for Someone".

In 2009 she took part in an interactive documentary series called City Sonic. The series, which featured 20 Toronto artists, had her talk about performing at the Rivoli while attending the University of Toronto.

On 18 April 2011, Slean chose a song called "New Pair of Eyes" from Land, to be included on the compilation album Songs of Love for Japan. She described the song as an "ode to the shocking wonder of existence". Songs of Love for Japan was available for only 3 days, with all proceeds going toward relief efforts in the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on 11 March 2011.

Personal life

Slean was born in Pickering, Ontario. She attended Dunbarton High School in Pickering. Before heading to college she worked with Sean Butler at Loeb. After initially studying music at York University, she completed a degree in music and philosophy at the University of Toronto.

In 2008, Slean and fellow singer-songwriter Royal Wood got engaged while in Paris; the pair married in 2009, and would divorce in 2013. In January 2014, Slean said she and Wood had "parted ways as friends".

Discography

Studio albums

TitleDetailsNotes
Blue Parade
  • Released: 17 August 1998
  • Label: (None)
Independent release
Night Bugs
  • Released: 19 March 2002
  • Label: WEA / Atlantic Records
First major label release
Day One
  • Released: 28 September 2004
  • Label: WEA
The Baroness
  • Released: 11 March 2008
  • Label: WEA
Black Flowers
  • Released: 1 June 2009
  • Label: PID Productions
Collaboration with the
Art of Time Ensemble
Land & Sea
  • Released: 27 September 2011
  • Label: Pheromone Recordings
Metaphysics
  • Released: 7 April 2017

EPs and live albums

TitleDetailsNotes
Universe
  • Released: 1997 (Cassette); 1998 (CD)
  • Label: (None)
Independent release
Sarah Slean EP
  • Released: 17 July 2001
  • Label: WEA / Atlantic Records
Orphan Music
  • Released: 31 October 2006
  • Label: WEA
Live album with newly recorded studio versions, B-sides, and remixes
The Baroness Redecorates
  • Released: 9 December 2008
  • Label: WEA
B-sides EP consisting of tracks cut from The Baroness
Beauty Lives – The B-Sides
  • Released: December 2010
  • Label: WEA
Collection of newly recorded old and new tracks
String Quartet No. 2
  • Released: March 2011
  • Label: The Baroness Inc.
String quartet written as a commission for The Blue Ceiling Dance Company

Singles

TitleDetailsNotes
"Lucky Me"
  • Released: 6 July 2004
  • Label: WEA
"When Another Midnight"
  • Released: 16 November 2004
  • Label: WEA
Features hip-hop artist K-OS
"Mary"
  • Released: 9 August 2005
  • Label: WEA
Improbable Pop Radio Mix, not the Day One version

Radio releases

  • "Sweet Ones" (2002)
  • "Weight" (2002)
  • "Duncan" (2003)
  • "Lucky Me" (2004)
  • "Day One"(2005)
  • "Mary" (2005)
  • "Somebody's Arms" (2005)
  • "Get Home" (2008)
  • "Set It Free" (2011)
  • "Sarah" (2017)

Music videos

  • "Weight" (1998)
  • "High" (2000)
  • "Sweet Ones" (2002)
  • "Lucky Me" (2004)
  • "Day One"(2005)
  • "Mary" (2005)
  • "Get Home" (2008)
  • "The Rose" (2010)
  • "Set It Free" (2011)
  • "The Devil & the Dove" (2012)
  • "Society Song" (2012)
  • "Sarah" (2017)
  • "Every Rhythm Is The Beat" (2017)

Awards and recognitions

  • 2003 Juno Awards: New Artist of the Year – Nomination
  • 2005 Juno Awards: Adult Alternative Album of the Year (Day One) – Nomination
  • 2005 Gemini Awards: Best Performance in a Performing Arts Program or Series (2004 Governor General's Performing Arts Award) – Nomination
  • 2006 Gemini Awards: Best Performance in a Performing Arts Program or Series (Black Widow) – Nomination
  • 2009 Juno Awards: Adult Alternative Album of the Year (The Baroness) – Nomination
  • 2011 Leo Awards: Best Music Video ("The Rose": CJ Wallis – Producer)

It can be noted that two record engineers have been nominated in the Recording Engineer of the Year category at the Junos for their work with Slean: Peter Prilesnik in 2005 for Day One, and Jeff Wolpert in 2012 for Land & Sea.

The contents of this page are sourced from Wikipedia article. The contents are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Lists
Sarah Slean is in following lists
comments so far.
Comments
From our partners
Sponsored
Credits
References and sources
Sarah Slean
arrow-left arrow-right instagram whatsapp myspace quora soundcloud spotify tumblr vk website youtube pandora tunein iheart itunes