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Issa
Siberry released her first album when she was studying microbiology at the University of Guelph in 1981. The album was hit, however, its follow-up, No Borders Here shot her to fame. It included the underground hit "Mimi on the Beach".
Then, her The Speckless Sky released in 1985 gained commercial and critical success. It was followed by her movement into a major label in time for The Walking. It was a critical success but popular failure. Although, on international grounds, The Walking was released on Reprise Records, however, it remained on Duke Street Records in Canada. Siberry worked with Michael Brook and Brian Eno on When I Was a BoyiIn 1993.
The album's most hit song was the k.d. lang duet ‘Calling All Angels'. Initially, it appeared in Wim Wenders' Until the End of the World, and later on, was re-recorded for the Pay It Forward soundtrack.
The same song was subsequently used in the Six Feet Under episode "The Rainbow of Her Reasons". It was sung by many characters around the body of a deceased friend.
Siberry came up with her own independent label, Sheeba Records after the release in 1995 of Maria. She released all of her material on that label. Although, her public profile went lower after she became an independent artist; she retains a devoted cult following.
Discography
Jane Siberry (1981)
No Borders Here (1984)
The Speckless Sky (1985)
The Walking (1987)
Bound by the Beauty (1989)
When I Was a Boy (1993)
A Collection 1984-1989 (1995, compilation)
Summer in the Yukon (1995, compilation)
Maria (1995)
Teenager (1996)
A Day in the Life (1997)
Child: Music for the Christmas Season (1997)
Lips: Music for Saying It (1999)
Tree: Music for Films and Forests (1999)
Hush (2000)
City (2001)
Love is Everything: The Jane Siberry Anthology (2002)
Shushan the Palace: Hymns of Earth (2003)
Tracks on compilation albums
Siberry has also contributed tracks to a number of movie soundtracks and compilation albums:
Until the End of the World, 1991 ("Calling All Angels")
Toys, 1992 ("Happy Workers (reprise)")
The Crow, 1994 ("It Can't Rain All the Time")
Faraway, So Close, 1994 ("Slow Tango")
Time and Love: The Music of Laura Nyro, 1997 ("When I Think of Laura Nyro")
Women like Us: Lesbian Favorites,[4] 1997 ("Temple")
Pay It Forward, 1998 ("Calling All Angels")
Whatever: The 90s Pop and Culture Box, 2005 ("Calling All Angels")
Trivia
- Her song "One More Colour" was covered by Sarah Polley on the soundtrack to The Sweet Hereafter, and by the Rheostatics on their Introducing Happiness album.
- She recorded the traditional Newfoundland song "She's Like the Swallow" on French producer Hector Zazou's 1994 album Chansons des mers froides (Songs from the Cold Seas).
- It is believed that she is a lesbian and her music appearing on compilation CDs is targeted to lesbian audiences, Issa/Jane Siberry has in fact never made a public statement of her sexuality.
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