Born: 1974
This Winnipeg pianist/composer/singer/songwriter astonished family when, at the age of three she was able to pick-up the ability to play piano from just watching her older brothers perform. Piano lessons began shortly thereafter.
She was trained classically but grew to love pop music as well and began writing commercial jingles and raising money doing the lounge circuit while secretively honing her own songwriting skills.
In 1993, while travelling in Italy with a friend they rented Mopeds and Kreviazuk wound up in a head-on collision with a motorcycle resulting in some serious facial damage and a broken femur. While recovering in Europe, Kreviazuk re-assessed her direction as an artist and decided to get more serious about her music which had always seemed to be on the back burner while she tried to make a living with other pursuits.
She secured the managerial direction of former Orphan/Pumps/Deadbeat Honeymooners frontman Chris Burke-Gaffney and began writing with him and demoing songs. In February 1996, Michael Roth of Sony Music signed Kreviazuk to one of the most lucrative recording contracts ever offered to a Canadian artist: a $1 million guarantee over two albums.
The able has harboured four hit singles and gave her opportunity to make appearances on Conan O'Brien, the WBOS EarthFest, CBC Radio Two's 'Radio Sonic', and Sarah McLachlan's Lilith Fair
The debut disc was certified platinum (100,000) in early 1998 with 50,000 copies having been sold over the 1997 Xmas holiday alone.
Also in 1998 Kreviazuk was nominated for COCA's Canadian Entertainer Of The Year and is scheduled for a return to the Lilith Fair caravan of tour dates.
In the early summer of 1999, Kreviazuk completed her sophomore album, "Colour Moving And Still", with producer Jay Joyce (Tim Finn, The Wallflowers). It's due out in late summer/early fall.
Singles
1996 God Made Me (Sony)
1997 Wayne (Sony)
1997 Surrounded (Sony)
1998 Hands (Sony)
Albums
1996 Under These Rock And Stones (Sony)
1999 Colour Moving And Still (Sony)
Video
1996 God Made Me
1997 Wayne
1997 Surrounded
1998 Hands
1999 Before You
Compilation Tracks
1998/03/24 Believer on '30 Hour Famine' (Nettwerk)
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