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Biography
BLP sources|date=January 2009Refimprove|date=August 2010Infobox musical artist| image =| name = Jane Child| background = solo_singer| birth_name = Jane Richman| birth_date = birth date and age|df=yes|1967|02|15| origin = Toronto, Ontario , Canada | genre = Pop music|Pop , dance music|dance , Rock music|rock | associated_acts =| occupation = singer-songwriter , record producer | years_active = 1988& ndash;present (singer)| label = Warner Bros. Records (1989-1994), Sugarwave (2000-present)| website =Use dmy dates|date=August 2010Jane Child (born 15 February 1967, Toronto ) is a Canada|Canadian Pop music|dance-pop singer , Record producer|producer and musician .
Career
The daughter of Ricky Hyslop , Child joined Canadian Opera Company 's children's chorus in her youth.cite web | url= http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm? PgNm=TCE& Params=U1ARTU0001683 | title=Hyslop, Ricky | publisher= The Canadian Encyclopedia | first1=Margaret | last1=Daly | first2=Betty | last2=Nygaard King | accessdate=2010-04-23
She is perhaps best known for her 1990 chart-topper|hit song " Don't Wanna Fall in Love ", which peaked at #1 on "Radio & Records", and #2 on Billboard magazine|Billboard 's Billboard Hot 100|Hot 100 record chart|chart for three weeks in the spring of that year. A remix of the single earned her a Juno Awards of 1991|1991 Juno Award for Juno Award for Dance Recording of the Year|Dance Recording of the Year .
She was known for her eclectic fashion style, which included spiked hair with long braid s and wearing a nose chain . http://janechild.com/press_gavin.html Janechild.com Her follow-up single, "Welcome to the Real World", was a modest hit, peaking at #49. The song was featured in the 1988 film Married to the Mob . These originated from her self-titled debut album , which peaked at #49 on the Billboard 200| Billboard 200 . In 1992, she contributed a track titled "Mona Lisa Smiles" to the soundtrack of Freejack , a sci-fi action thriller starring Emilio Estevez , which was included on her second album release, Here Not There , one year later. This album was a departure from her debut, in that she mixed New jack swing elements along with hard rock tracks.
Child disappeared from the music scene for several years, but kept herself busy with session recording including providing backing vocals and working on various projects. In 1996, she began work on her third album Surge , as well as continuing to work on side projects and making live appearances. Surge was released in 2001 via her own website on her own record label . Surge features two singles "Almost Beautiful" and "Nice Day". That same year she re-recorded her peace anthem "World Lullabye", included in her first album, and sold the single on her website, all proceeds were donated to the Twin Towers Fund. She recorded a cover of Tina Turner's "We Don't Need Another Hero" for a Tina Turner tribute album released in 2004.
Equipment
Child has used a variety of synthesizers over the course of her career, most notably the Fairlight CMI III, an example of which appeared in the videos for 'Don't Wanna Fall In Love' and 'Welcome To The Real World". As of the time of the making of the 'Surge' album, Jane's equipment list included around 60 keyboards, 40 of them midi'ed to a Korg T1 controller. Some of the synths are:
Fairlight CMI III, Marion Systems MSR-2, Wersi bass synthesizer, Kurzweil K2000RS, Alesis Andromeda A6, Hammond 102200, Clavia Nord Lead 2 and the Octave Cat
Personal life
Jane is married to musician Cat Gray. This was revealed via her appearance on the WayneBrady Show in May 2004, http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=pl3FOBw0_5c Jane Child - "Don't Wanna Fall In Love", Live On The WayneBrady Show where she performed "Don't Wanna Fall In Love", live.
Discography
Albums
Jane Child (album)|Jane Child 1989 Warner Bros. Records ( United States|U.S. Pop: #49)cite news | url= http://news.google.ca/newspapers? id=yH8fAAAAIBAJ& pg=3183,5373523 | title='Jane Child' mixes dance dance groove with lyrical depth | first=John | last=Williams | publisher= The Cavalier Daily | date=8 March 1990 | page=6 | accessdate=2010-04-23
Here Not There , 1993 Warner Bros. Recordscite news | url= http://news.google.ca/newspapers? id=sdwxAAAAIBAJ& pg=6202,1870885 | title=New Releases | publisher= New Straits Times | date=25 September 1993 | page=4 | accessdate=2010-04-23
Surge (album)|Surge , 2002 Sugarwave Records
Surge Remixed , 2002 Sugarwave Records
Singles
"Welcome to the Real World", 1989 Warner Bros. Records
" Don't Wanna Fall in Love ", 1990 Warner Bros. Records (US Pop #2, US Dance #11, US R& B #6, UK #22cite book
| first= David | last= Roberts | year= 2006 | title= British Hit Singles & Albums | edition= 19th | publisher= Guinness World Records Limited | location= London | isbn= 1-904994-10-5 | page= 104)
"Welcome to the Real World" (re-release), 1990 Warner Bros. Records (US Pop #49)
"Mona Lisa Smiles" 1992 Warner Bros. Records
"Here Not There", 1993 Warner Bros. Records
"Do Whatcha Do", 1993 Warner Bros. Records
"All I Do", 1994 Warner Bros. Records (US Hot Dance Music/Club Play #25)
"Maybe Tommorow" (Tomohiko Nishimura featuring Jane Child), 1998 Fun House
"World Lullabye 2001", 2001 Sugarwave Records
"Almost Beautiful" 2002 Sugarwave Records
"Nice Day" 2002 Sugarwave Records
" We Don't Need Another Hero " 2004
References
Reflist
External links
official website| http://www.janechild.com
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/C/Child_Jane.html Jane Child page from The Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia website
http://www.twitter.com/JaneChild Jane Child's Twitter Feed
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