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Biography
Use dmy dates|date=January 2011Infobox musical artist | name = Sarah Slean| image = Sarah Slean - Myer Horowitz - close-up.jpg| caption = Sarah Slean performing in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.| image_size =| background = solo_singer| birth_name = SarahHope Slean| alias =| birth_date = Birth date and age|df=yes|1977|6|21| death_date =| origin = Pickering, Ontario , Canada | instrument = Singer|Vocals , keyboard instrument s| genre = Pop music|Pop , pop rock , art rock | occupation = Musician , vocalist , songwriter | years_active =| label = Warner Music Group|WEA , Atlantic Records|Atlantic | associated_acts = Art of Time Ensemble| website = http://www.sarahslean.com/ SarahSlean.com| notable_instruments = Piano, keyboardsSarahHope Slean (born 21 June 1977) is a Canada|Canadian singer-songwriter , musician , poet , and occasional actress from Pickering, Ontario . She has released eleven albums to date (including EPs and live albums).
Career
Major recordings
Slean recorded her first EP Universe (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 Warner Music Group|WEA in Canada and Atlantic Records in the United States .cite web| url= http://www.sarahslean.com/music/discography/cd/nightBugs.aspx| title=Night Bugs | work=Official Community of Sarah Slean| accessdate=23 May 2008 It was heavily inspired by cabaret music.
On 28 September 2004, Slean released her fourth album, Day One (Sarah Slean 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 (single)|Lucky Me ".cite web| url= http://www.sarahslean.com/music/discography/cd/dayOne.aspx | title=Day One | work=Official Community of Sarah Slean| accessdate=23 May 2008 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.cite web|url= http://www.sarahslean.com/music/discography/cd/orphanMusic.aspx| title=Orphan Music | work=Official Community of Sarah Slean| accessdate=23 May 2008
On 13 December 2007, Slean's website underwent a massive overhaul in preparation for her newest studio album, entitled The Baroness (album)|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 (album)|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 Extended play|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 tracklist was also provided.cite web| url= http://www.sarahslean.com/news/default.aspx#fb221b8d-d7b8-4094-8e8d-291002eac162:1101 | title=Sarah Releases a New EP just in Time for the Holidays!|work=The Official Community of Sarah Slean| accessdate=13 November 2008
Slean released her fifth studio album, a double album entitled Land & Sea (album)|Land & Sea , on 27 September 2011.cite web|title=Land & Sea - Pre-Order|url= http://sarahslean.com/music/solo/26-land-sea-pre-order|publisher=SarahSlean.com|accessdate=17 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.
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.cite web|url= http://canada.mymusic.com/product.asp? curr=1& myptr=canada& muzenbr=100276016| title=CD Details | work=canada.mymusic.com| accessdate=23 May 2008
Another notable cover in Slean's repertoire is her down-tempo rendition of Our LadyPeace 's guitar-driven song "Julia". Our LadyPeace 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..."cite web| url= http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Sarah-Slean-Biography/F3D5383DF190C64C48256E5C002AF1D6| title=Sarah Slean Biography| work=Sing365.com| accessdate=23 May 2008
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.Citation needed|date=March 2009 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 (musician)|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 Award|Juno Songwriter's Circle in Vancouver, alongside fellow songwriters Jim Cuddy , Jacob Hoggard (of Hedley (band)|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 attended Dunbarton High School in Pickering. She initially studied music at York University . She then 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.cite web|title=Sarah Slean Gets Festive|url= http://www.chartattack.com/reviews/64447/sarah-slean-gets-festive|accessdate=27 September 2011|publisher=ChartAttack.com The pair married in 2009.cite web|title=Sarah Slean's Sea Change|url= http://www2.macleans.ca/2011/09/08/sarahs-sea-change|accessdate=27 September 2011|publisher=MacLeans.ca
A companion poetry book to the album of the same name, containing 46 pages.
Filmography
Black Widow (2005 movie)|Black Widow (2005)
In late 2004, she filmed Black Widow with Canadian director David Mortin , a film noir musical based on the Evelyn Dick murder case. It premiered in September 2005 on the film festival circuit and on CBC Television in January 2006.
In 2006, Slean teamed up with video director Nelson Chan (" Mary (Sarah Slean song)|Mary ", "Day One") to create a three-part short film titled Tales of the Baroness . The first segment aired on 11 May 2007 on Bravo! .
" Last Flowers " (2009)
In 2009 Sarah was in another short film by CJ Wallis, now viewable on VIMEO.
Synopis: Writing obituaries for a local newspaper to keep the wolf from the door, coupled with the complete avoidance of his own mother’s death – universally rejected novelist Harvey Harris (Joseph May) is feeling more distanced than ever from the world and those who surround him.
An attempt to ease his guilt leads Harvey to sneaking into the very funerals he writes about, where a chance meeting of a strong-willed woman named Mona Miller (Sarah Slean) will force Harvey to confront his greatest fears about loss and rejection and how to find a way to connect through the most severe forms of disconnection
Written & Directed by: CJ Wallis, Produced by: Elli Weisbaum, DP: Robert Walsh, Original Score: Kevin James Maher Starring: Joseph May, Sarah Slean, Troy De Lottinville & Rikki Gagne Featuring Music By: Elliott Smith, Sigur Ros & The Vince Guaraldi Trio
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External links
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official website| http://www.sarahslean.com
Sarah Slean
Persondata|NAME = Slean, Sarah |ALTERNATIVE NAMES = Slean, SarahHope (full name) |SHORT DESCRIPTION = Canadian singer-songwriter and musician |DATE OF BIRTH = 21 June 1977 |PLACE OF BIRTH = Pickering, Ontario, Canada |DATE OF DEATH = |PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Slean, Sarah Category:1977 births Category:Living people Category:Canadian female singers Category:Canadian pop singers Category:Canadian singer-songwriters Category:Canadian pop pianists Category:Musicians from Ontario Category:People from Pickering, Ontario
