Coral Egan
Canadian singer
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Coral Egan is a Canadian jazz and pop singer.[1] She is most noted as a two-time Juno Award nominee, receiving nominations for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2003 for her album The Path of Least Resistance,[2] and Adult Contemporary Album of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2014 for The Year He Drove Me Crazy.[3] Her voice is recognized as the vocals for the English opening & closing theme songs for the 1999 animated cartoon Cybersix.
The daughter of musician and composer Karen Young,[4] she began her career as a backing vocalist on some of her mother's recordings and performing as a solo folk artist.[5] She released The Path of Least Resistance, her own solo debut, in 2002,[6] and followed up with the albums My Favorite Distraction (2004),[7] Magnify (2007)[8] and The Year He Drove Me Crazy (2012).[9]
In 2015, Egan was diagnosed with Guillain–Barré syndrome.[10] During and after her recovery, Egan and Young collaborated on Missa Campanula, a polychoral project which they performed at the 2016 Montreal Jazz Festival,[11] and on the 2017 album Dreamers.[4]