Catherine McKinnon is a Canadian

Canada

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 actress and folk

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

/pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 singer.

McKinnon began as a child performer, making her first radio appearance at age eight and her television debut at age 12. She subsequently studied music at Mount St. Vincent College

Mount Saint Vincent University

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 in Halifax.

In the 1960s she was a regular on CBC

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

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 radio and television, including Don Messer's Jubilee

Don Messer's Jubilee

Don Messer's Jubilee was a television folk musical variety show produced at station CBHT in Halifax, Nova Scotia and broadcast by CBC Television nationwide from 1957 until 1969....

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McKinnon's first and biggest selling album, Voice of an Angel, was a collection of folk material, but she has also recorded ballads, torch songs and songs by notable pop songwriters such as Leonard Cohen

Leonard Cohen

Leonard Norman Cohen, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963. His work often explores religion, isolation, sexuality and interpersonal relationships...

, Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell

Joni Mitchell, CC is a Canadian musician, singer songwriter, and painter. Mitchell began singing in small nightclubs in her native Saskatchewan and Western Canada and then busking in the streets and dives of Toronto...

 and Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Buffy Sainte-Marie, OC is a Canadian Cree singer-songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator, pacifist, and social activist. Throughout her career in all of these areas, her work has focused on issues of Indigenous peoples of the Americas. Her singing and writing repertoire includes...

. She has also been a stage actress, appearing in Canadian productions of Turvey, The Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz (adaptations)

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 and My Fair Lady

My Fair Lady

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She married actor/comedian Don Harron

Don Harron

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 in 1969. Her sister, Patrician Anne McKinnon, began her singing career on CBC Television

CBC Television

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 at age 13. She was featured on both "Voice of an Angel" albums. Patrician Anne's career was often on hold due to Hodgkins disease which caused her death at the age of 53 of lymphatic cancer October 10, 2001 in Toronto, Canada

Discography

• This Is Catherine McKinnon (1964)
• Voice of an Angel (1964)
• Voice of an Angel II (1965)
• The Catherine McKinnon Christmas Album (1966)
• I'll Be Home For Christmas (1966)
• Something Old Something New (1967)
• Both Sides Now (1968)
• Everybody's Talkin (1969)
• Catherine McKinnon with the Jimmy Dale Orchestra (1970)
• Catherine McKinnon (1980)
• Explosive (1980)
• Patrician Anne (1984)
• I'll Be Home For Christmas (1992)
• Images Of Christmas - Special Guest Denny Doherty (Attic Records Limited, 1992)

External links

• YouTube audio from "Voice of an Angel"