Biography

Juno Award-winning artist Sass Jordan has made a living singing, performing, writing and recording music internationally for the past thirty years. She is an internationally recognized singer/songwriter who has sold over one million CDs worldwide.

Winner of Billboard's Best Female Rock Vocalist award, the bilingual Montrealer has toured and/or worked with many music heavyweights, including Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Cheap Trick, Van Halen, Carlos Santana and Joe Cocker.

In 1992, Jordan performed a duet with Joe Cocker for the soundtrack of the motion picture The Bodyguard, starring Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner, which sold more than 27 million copies worldwide. Her songs have been featured on numerous television shows, including Melrose Place, Party Of Five, Baywatch and Knightrider.

Also an accomplished actress, she starred in the lead role of Janis Joplin in the off-Broadway hit, "Love Janis." Jordan has guest starred on NBC's Sisters and was featured in the Toronto and Winnipeg productions of "The Vagina Monologues."

In 2003, she took on judging duties on the TV ratings blockbuster, Canadian Idol – the same year she shared the stage with The Rolling Stones, AC/DC and others as part of the history-making SARS relief concert in Toronto.

She started as a young teenager in her hometown of Montreal, Quebec, and although her professional journey has led her to many different branches of entertainment, such as the stage and screen, she has never abandoned her heart, the sound and soul of music.

Her latest CD, entitled “From Dusk ‘Til Dawn”, was written and recorded from July through October 2008, and features songs and sounds that reflect the atmosphere of the late 70’s Southern California scene. ‘I started out singing in Westmount Park, with my friends and a couple of acoustic guitars ... passersby would stop and listen for a while, as we honed our skills in public’, says Sass. “Naturally, this type of vocal harmony and melodic sensibility is now a staple in my repertoire, and one I had a blast revisiting on this current recording”.

Joining Sass on the CD is Derek Sharp, who also co-wrote, sang, produced and played multiple instruments, Peter Cardinali on bass guitar, Jorn Anderson on drums and percussion, Gary Breit on keyboards, Michael Borkosky on guitars and co-arrangements, and lastly, Chris Caddell on guitar.

“The title of the CD comes from me wanting to write about that time of day when things are most uncertain, in a state of potentiality, right before the night manifests, with all it’s accompanying fear, passion, quiet, loneliness, dread, and dreams…. It’s the time we seem to be the most vulnerable emotionally, and as an artist, that time is very interesting to explore.”

Press:

• Sass Jordan Interviews
• WBWC/Cleveland "Running Late" Interview - October 8, 2009 - Todd Richards (Listen Here)
• Cashbox Magazine, Canada - September 21, 2009 - "Sass Jordan CD Release Party, Live at Hugh's Room" - On a busy summer night in the midst of Toronto International Film Festival movie madness, there was no  better place to be for more than 200 fans than Hugh's Room on Saturday, September 12 - packed into the CD release party for Canada's rock icon, Sass Jordan celebrating her latest offering 'From Dusk 'Til Dawn'... Read more
• Metro News, Canda - September 18, 2009 - "Sass Jordan finds inspiration for new album in the night" - As a touring artist, Sass Jordan watches days pass in a blur of travel. It’s the nights, and their performances and motel rooms that become the one constant: The source of her memories... Read more
• Riveting Riffs - Sept 12, 2009 - "Sass Jordan is Spectacular" - Canadian rock singer Sass Jordan is a lot of things, but what she is not is squeamish, timid or understated. On September 12th, performing before a packed house at Hugh's Room in Toronto, Canada, the rock singer was spectacular... Read more.
• Backstage Axxess - August 1, 2009 - Sass Jordan Interview - We recently say down with not only an amazing woman and talent, but a genuine soul and friend as well. Sass Jordan not only fits the description of all these things, she can sing her ass off as well. Sass is getting ready to unleash her 6th studio album 'From Dusk 'til Dawn'...Read more
• Chatelaine Magazine - August 2009 - "Give us some Sass" - Move over Madonna. Sass Jordan is the true musical mother of reinvention. But whatever the guise - Rock 'n' Roll wild child, self help scholar, doting mom.... Read more
• Backstage Axxess - July 26, 2009 - Lita Ford and Sass Jordan (Molson Concert Series) July 24, 2009 - Canadian artist Sass Jordan touched down in Lockport, NY, as part of the 2009 Molson Canal Concert Series.  The weather held up for this free outdoor show.  The schedule was running behind, so instead of a 7pm set time, Sass graced the stage at 8:15pm. We heard a 60 minute set comprised mostly of songs from the 90’s, 5 tracks from 1992’s “Racine” and 4 from 1994’s “Rats."... Read more
• Backstage Axxess - July 26, 2009 - Sass Jordan "From Dusk Til' Dawn" - The original 'Canadian Idol,' Sass Jordan, will becoming out with her 6th studio album ‘From Dusk ‘til Dawn’ on Elvair Entertainment, digitally on August 4th and on hard format on September 15, 2009. Her husband and guitar player Derek Sharp plays multiple instruments on the album and also produces it...Read more
• Niagara Frontier Publications - July 16, 2009 - "Girl knows how to rock" - Sass Jordan is just about the coolest rock star ever. We’ll revisit that thought in a moment. Here’s the thing: Rockers, beloved on stage, are often times narcissistic, spoiled brats in real life. For all their “peace, love and change the world” rhetoric under the lights and in front of the crowd, they’re just as likely to act like jerks and flip off fans backstage....Read more
  
  

Music

"Why Did You"

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"Stronger"

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News:

• Sass Jordan Vital Stats (pdf)
  

Other Resources:

• Sass Jordan Blog
• Sass Jordan Press Kit <<---NEW