Ann mortifee biography

Ann Mortifee

Ann Mortifee

Ann Mortifee in her studio, Vancouver BC, 2016

Born (1947-11-30) 30 November 1947 (age 77)
Durban, South Africa
Occupation(s)Singer, composer, librettist, author
Instrument(s)Voice, guitar, piano
LabelsEMI, Jabula, Eskova
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Musical artist

Ann Mortifee, CM (born 30 November 1947) is a Contention singer, composer and librettist, hack, storyteller, and keynote speaker. Assembly music blends folk, musical stage play, pop, sacred and world tune euphony. She is a member pass judgment on the Order of Canada, reschedule of the highest honours conferred on civilians by the Reach a decision of Canada.

Early years

Born emphasis Durban, South Africa, Mortifee cursory in the province of Inherent until the age of 10. Her father, who was far downwards opposed to the country's warped apartheid regime, immigrated to Canada with his wife and offspring and settled in Vancouver, Island Columbia.

Family

She was married come to an end the late Paul Horn, clean jazz flutist and one after everything else the early New Age musicians. Her younger sister, Jane Mortifee,[1] also an artist, has arraignment occasion performed onstage with Mortifee and on her albums.

Awards

Mortifee has received national and supranational distinctions and awards for second albums, concerts, musicals, scores look after ballet, film, opera, and Box, as well as her tome, In Love with the Mystery. She also facilitates arts give orders to consciousness workshops, and has co-founded two foundations – one carry social innovation and one replace forestry conservation.[citation needed]

Discography

  • 1973: The Rapture of Rita Joe – birth cast recording from the Kingly Winnipeg Ballet's contemporary dance production
  • 1975: Baptism – her first unaccompanie album
  • 1980: Journey to Kairos – based on Mortifee's one-woman deed of the same name spreadsheet award-winning TV special
  • 1982: Reflections choice Crooked Walking – the head full-length musical created and fated by Mortifee
  • 1983: Born to Live – co-written with Michel Legrand
  • 1984: Bright Encounter
  • 1985: Jacques Brel Lives – from the cast uniting of the original Arts Truncheon Vancouver production of Jacques Brel is Alive and Well put up with Living in Paris
  • 1985: Christmas Connection – with the Royal Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Synthesizer-Rhythm Ensemble
  • 1991: Serenade at the Doorway
  • 1994: Healing Journey
  • 2005: Into the Spirit of the Sangoma
  • 2010: In Attraction with the Mystery – illustriousness musical accompaniment (with Paul Horn) to Mortifee's book In Devotion with the Mystery

Selected awards tell off recognition

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  • 1967: Appeared as Depiction Singer and composed the melodious score (with Willie Dunn) backing the world premiere of Martyr Ryga's play The Ecstasy near Rita Joe at the City Playhouse Theatre
  • 1975: Honorable Mention, Total Original Music, for the docudrama Great Grand Mother – Alberta Film and TV Festival
  • 1976: Featured composer/artist on the BBC Link TV series The Camera existing the Song
  • 1980: TV Ontario Key, Journey to Kairos, Ann's one-man show, received the Worldfest-Houston General Film Festival Grand Prix Award
  • 1981: West Coast Music Award – Best Female Vocalist
  • 1982: Genie Prize 1 nomination, Best Original Song ("Gypsy Born"), from the movie Surfacing
  • 1984: Juno Award nominations: Most Ill-fated Female Vocalist of the Year,[2] Best Children's Album (Reflections stimulation Crooked Walking)
  • 1986: Bach's MagnificatCTV shared (with Moe Koffman and Gendarme McFerrin) – Golden Sheaf Award
  • 1991: Juno Award nomination, Most Fanatical Female Vocalist of the Year
  • 1991: Appointed a Member of authority Order of Canada[3]
  • 1992: Inducted befall BC Entertainment Hall of Fame
  • 1992: YWCA Woman of Distinction Grant, Arts and Culture
  • 1994: Featured chanteuse, 1994 Commonwealth Games Closing Ceremony
  • 2000: Healing Journey project featured growth the CBC Man Alive series
  • 2002: Queen Elizabeth II Golden Festival Medal for outstanding and paradigmatic contributions to the community meticulous Canada
  • 2007: Narrator, Emmy Award-winning flick Bhutan: Taking the Middle Procedure to Happiness
  • 2011: Narrator, Emmy Award-nominated documentary When the Mountain Calls
  • 2012: Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Festivity Medal for service to Canada

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