Suzie Ungerleider

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Oh Susanna 2007

Suzie Ungerleider (born 1971 in Northampton (Massachusetts) , United States ), who always writes and performs under the stage name Oh Susanna , is a Canadian singer-songwriter in the Alternative Country genre .

Life and work

Ungerleider comes from a German-Jewish immigrant family and grew up in their western Canadian hometown of Vancouver. Her father is a professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

She made her first musical release, a seven-song EP , in 1997. Her album debut Johnstown came out two years later . She toured through Canada and the USA with the musicians Veda Hille and Kinnie Starr under the ironic label "Scrappy Bitches Tour".

Ungerleider's musical creations span a broad field between blues , pop , rock and folk . She is not a sentimental melancholic, but rather gripping like Stefan Stoppok . Her lyrics are about murderers, violence, poverty and need. "Murder ballads are so effective (..). A killer ballad forces you to look behind the surface and to think about the complexity of humans," she commented on her own preference. There she meets u. a. with Nick Cave , whose 1996 album Murder Ballads was called.

The Genie Award for Best Achievement in Music , which she received in 1999 for her piece The Fishing Trip , is presented annually by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television for the best Canadian original song .

She came to Germany for the first time in 2001. Der Spiegel said the country folk bard made comparisons with the cowboy junkies and Lucinda Williams . In 2003 she made another club tour through England and Germany. The album Oh Susanna was more rock music.

On her European tour in autumn 2007, she was accompanied by the Canadian guitarist Steve Dawson . Critics emphasized her "crystal clear, expressive singing voice, which seems made for the kind of sighing beautiful, melodic and deadly sad folk ballads" for which she is also known. The "lecture - mostly with closed eyes - which drives the siren-like (..) forward" was criticized.

She married Cam Giroux, a professional drummer who performed and released with various Canadian bands. There is a son who caused an almost four year baby break in their musician vita. Ungerleider lives in her adopted home Toronto . In 2012 she changed her US citizenship to Canadian.

In her album A Girl in Teen City (2017) the musician goes back autobiographically to her time as a young woman.

Discography

  • A Girl in Teen City (2017)
  • Namedropper (2014)
  • Soon the Birds (2011)
  • Short Stories (2007)
  • Oh Susanna (2003)
  • Sleepy Little Sailor (2001)
  • Johnstown (1999)
  • Oh Susanna EP (1997)

Web links

Supporting documents, footnotes

  1. ↑ BIOGRAPHY Oh Susanna on laut.de
  2. ↑ Kultur SPIEGEL 12/2001 of December 1, 2001, page 36
  3. ^ Review of an Ungerleider concert in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on November 12, 2003
  4. ^ Reviewer U. Maurer about a concert in Ospel, Netherlands on November 11, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Unfortunately, Suzie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oh Susanna (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Vancouver , British Columbia