23 Facts About Sarah Slean

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Sarah Hope Slean was born on June 21,1977 and is a Canadian singer-songwriter, composer and musician.

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Sarah Slean is a poet, visual artist, and occasional actress.

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Sarah Slean composed all the string and horn arrangements for these albums - by hand in traditional notation.

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On 28 September 2004, Sarah Slean released her fourth album, Day One.

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The up-tempo title track "Day One", and "Mary", a song about Sarah Slean's grandmother, were released as the second and third singles.

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Sarah Slean was first introduced to VS orchestral libraries and MIDI sequencing on this album, and composed all the orchestral accompaniments.

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In October 2006, Sarah 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.

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8.

On 13 December 2007, Sarah Slean's website underwent a massive overhaul in preparation for her newest studio album, entitled The Baroness.

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Visitors to the new site were invited to sign up for Sarah Slean's new mailing list, and in doing so would be able to download a demo version of her newest single, "Get Home".

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Sarah Slean composed the orchestral arrangements for three songs and her mentor Jonathan Goldsmith arranged three others.

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Sarah Slean was 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.

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In October 2008, Sarah Slean performed at the first annual Canwest Cabaret Festival in Toronto.

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Sarah Slean performed sets of her own music accompanied by bassist Joe Phillips and drummer Mark Mariash, and contributed to multi-artist "songbook" performances of the songs of Leonard Cohen and Kurt Weill.

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In March 2009, Sarah Slean took part in the Juno Songwriter's Circle in Vancouver, alongside fellow songwriters Jim Cuddy, Jacob Hoggard, Doc Walker, Buffy Saint-Marie, Vancouver upstart Ndidi Onukwulu, and Hawksley Workman, who hosted.

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Sarah Slean played two songs from The Baroness, "Notes from the Underground" and "Looking for Someone".

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On 18 April 2011, Sarah Slean chose a song called "New Pair of Eyes" from Land, to be included on the compilation album Songs of Love for Japan.

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Sarah Slean described the song as an "ode to the shocking wonder of existence".

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In January 2014, Sarah Slean said she and Wood had "parted ways as friends".

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On November 7,2020, Sarah Slean announced on her social media accounts that she was pregnant with a daughter.

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Sarah Slean gave birth to a baby girl named Abigail on March 11,2021.

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In 2006, Sarah Slean teamed up with video director Nelson Chan to create a three-part short film titled Tales of the Baroness.

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In 2009, Sarah Slean was in another short film, Last Flowers, written and directed by CJ Wallis and produced by Elli Weisbaum.

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Sarah Slean landed the part of the Woman in French Film in Sonya Di Rienzo's short film, The Translator.