Sass Jordan

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Sass Jordan

Sass Jordan (born December 23, 1962 in Birmingham , Great Britain ) is a Canadian rock and hard rock singer. She is influenced by Aerosmith and the Rolling Stones . Jordan is the winner of the Canadian music prize Juno Award and, together with the musician Brian Tichy, founder of the band SUN (Something Unto Nothing).

biography

Sarah Jordan released her debut album Tell Somebody under her stage name Sass Jordan in 1988 and won the Juno Award in the category “Most Promising Female Vocalist of the Year” the following year. Her most commercially successful album, Racine, was released in 1992. In the same year she was a duet partner of Joe Cocker , with whom she recorded the song Trust in Me for the soundtrack of the film Bodyguard . In addition to her own albums, Jordan also worked with other artists, including the Jeff Healey Band (1990), Jude Cole (1992), Stevie Salas (1995 & 2007) and Nikolo Kotzev (2001), and she also participated the metal -opera Days of Rising Doom - the Metal Opera of Aina . As a songwriter , she mainly worked for Mariah Carey's albums Butterfly (1997) and The Adventures of Mimi (2007). Her last album so far as a solo artist was released in 2010 under the title From Dusk 'Til Dawn .

In 2011 Jordan formed the band SUN (Something Unto Nothing) with Brian Tichy, who was drummer for Whitesnake at the time . The group was completed by Michael Devin (bass) and Tommy Stewart (drums), Tichy plays guitar in this band. The group's debut album was released in 2012, an EP ( Nomad ) followed in spring 2014.

Discography (excerpt)

Chart placements
(preliminary)
Explanation of the data
Albums
Racine
  US 174 09/12/1992 (7 weeks)
Advice
  US 158 03/19/1994 (4 weeks)
Rebel Moon Blues
  CA 9 03/23/2020 (... Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / provisional / 2020 where.)
Singles
Sun's Gonna Rise
  US 86 11/19/1994 (3 weeks)

solo

  • Tell Somebody (1988)
  • Racine (1989)
  • Council (1994)
  • Present (1997)
  • Sass Jordan's Hot Gossip (2000)
  • Rough & Tough (2002)
  • Sass ... Best of Sass Jordan (2003)
  • Get What You Give (2006)
  • Best of Sass - An Authorized Bootleg (2006)
  • From Dusk 'Til Dawn (2010)
  • Racine Revisited (2017)
  • Rebel Moon Blues (2020)

with Stevie Salas

  • Back from the Living (1995)
  • The Sun and the Earth, Vol. 1 (2007)

with SUN

  • Something onto Nothing (2012)
  • Nomad ( EP , 2014)

Web links

Commons : Sass Jordan  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Entry on allmusic.com , accessed on November 8, 2014
  2. ↑ Database entry on junoawards.ca, accessed on November 4, 2014
  3. ↑ a b Chart sources: US CA
personal data
SURNAME Jordan, Sass
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jordan, Sarah (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian rock and hard rock singer
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham , UK