Name Jane McGarrigle | Role Songwriter | |
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Siblings Anna McGarrigle, Kate McGarrigle Parents Francis McGarrigle, Gabrielle Latremouille Nephews Rufus Wainwright, Sylvan Lanken Nieces Martha Wainwright, Lily Lanken Music director Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller, The Return of Tommy Tricker Similar People Anna McGarrigle, Kate McGarrigle, Martha Wainwright, Lian Lunson, Rufus Wainwright | ||
Anna and Jane McGarrigle
Jane McGarrigle is a Canadian songwriter, musician and music publisher.
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Biography
McGarrigle is the elder sister of Kate and Anna McGarrigle, and has written and performed several songs with the duo. She produced their album Love Over and Over. The song "Love Is", which she co-wrote, has been recorded by Nana Mouskouri, Emmylou Harris, and Renato Russo (who also recorded the co-written "Man Is an Island"). She served as her sisters' music manager for a time, and also managed producers Pierre Marchand (Sarah McLachlan) and Robbi Finkel (Cirque du Soleil) and the group Three O'Clock Train. She also co-composed, with her sisters, the scores to the Canadian film Tommy Tricker and the Stamp Traveller and its sequel, The Return of Tommy Tricker. She served on the board of the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada from 1990 to 2000, and until recently on the Board of the Songwriters Association of Canada. McGarrigle is also a member of the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Phblishers of Canada (SOCAN). In 2013, she was part of a SOCAN representative group for a streamed panel, "Can the Music Industry be Saved?"
With her sister Anna, she co-authored Mountain City Girls, a family memoir published in 2015 by Random House Canada.