18 May 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The respected US magazine Billboard has dubbed Kreviazuk the ‘grown up version’ of Avril Lavigne, Vanessa Carlton and Michelle Branch. The Canadian singer-songwriter was a child prodigy who could play the piano almost as soon as she touched it. She studied classical piano at the University of Winnipeg but only began writing her own songs while recuperating from a serious accident, where she was hit by a motorcycle in the Italian mountains, suffering a broken jaw and femur. Kreviazuk admits her injuries served as a wake-up call to translate her love of music into a career. She signed a recording contract with Sony Canada and worked with producers Peter Asher and Matt Wallace on her debut, Under These Rocks And Stones. The stand-out track on this solid album was ‘Surrounded’, based on a friend’s suicide. Interest in the artist was generated by a cover version of John Denver’s ‘Leaving On A Jet Plane’ that Kreviazuk contributed to the Armageddon soundtrack (she also appeared on the Dawson’s Creek soundtrack covering Randy Newman’s ‘Feels Like Home’).
Kreviazuk’s second album, Colour Moving And Still, won the singer-songwriter the Best Female Artist and Best Pop/Adult Album trophies at the 2000 Juno Awards, while the follow-up, What If It All Means Something, received some of her strongest reviews to date. The lead-off single, ‘In This Life’, was an ode to unconditional devotion, presumably written for husband Raine Maida, lead singer of Our Lady Peace (Maida contributed to around half the tracks on the album). ‘Flying Home’, in contrast, was about the singer's cousin who died suddenly - the track was written on the plane on the way to the funeral. Accompanied by rich piano arrangements, the vaguely universal sentiments registered by Kreviazuk throughout the album seemed to strike a chord with the Canadian record buying public. Kreviazuk is a regular supporter of War Child and has travelled to Iraq on behalf of the organization.
Source: The Encyclopedia of Popular Music by Colin Larkin. Licensed from Muze.
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18 May 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The respected US magazine Billboard has dubbed Kreviazuk the ‘grown up version’ of Avril Lavigne, Vanessa Carlton and Michelle Branch. The Canadian singer-songwriter was a child prodigy who could play the piano almost as soon as she touched it. She studied classical piano at the University of Winnipeg but only began writing her own songs while recuperating from a serious accident, where she was hit by a motorcycle in the Italian mountains, suffering a broken jaw and femur. Kreviazuk admits her injuries served as a wake-up call to translate her love of music into a career. She signed a recording contract with Sony Canada and worked with producers Peter Asher and Matt Wallace on her debut, Under These Rocks And Stones. The stand-out track on this solid album was ‘Surrounded’, based on a friend’s suicide. Interest in the artist was generated by a cover version of John Denver’s ‘Leaving On A Jet Plane’ that Kreviazuk contributed to the Armageddon soundtrack (she also appeared on the Dawson’s Creek soundtrack covering Randy Newman’s ‘Feels Like Home’).