Jean Smith (singer)
Canadian musician, writer and artist
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Jean Isabel Smith (born 1959) is a Canadian writer, painter and the lead singer of the Vancouver band Mecca Normal.
1959 (age 66–67)[1]
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| Background information | |
| Born | Jean Isabel Smith 1959 (age 66–67)[1] Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Occupations | Singer, painter, novelist, lecturer |
Career
Music
Smith co-founded Mecca Normal with bandmate David Lester[2] in 1981, while the two were working together at a Vancouver newspaper. Mecca Normal is considered a forerunner of the 1990s politically charged riot grrrl movement.[2][3]
Painting
Smith has continued the self-portrait series in watercolour, video and photography, including photos from her online dating profiles in her short film Attraction is Ephemeral — the title of a song on Mecca Normal's 2006 album The Observer.[4]
She began a series of paintings in 2016 to the present that she sells each day via Facebook posts to raise money to create an artist residency in Vancouver.[1][2][5][6]