Arlene Bishop is a Canadian lyricist, screenwriter, artist and singer-songwriter.

Biography

Arlene Bishop was born in

Churchill, Manitoba Churchill is a town in northern Manitoba, Canada, on the west shore of Hudson Bay, roughly from the Manitoba–Nunavut border. It is most famous for the many polar bears that move toward the shore from inland in the autumn, leading to the nickname ...

and raised in

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, Ontario. She currently resides in

Toronto Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the ancho ...

. As a recording artists Bishop has placed several songs in film and television. Most notably her song "98 Points" has appeared in ''

New Waterford Girl ''New Waterford Girl'' is a 1999 Canadian comedy-drama film directed by Allan Moyle, and written by Tricia Fish. It stars Liane Balaban as Agnes-Marie "Mooney" Pottie, a teenager in New Waterford, Nova Scotia, who dreams of life beyond her small ...

'', ''The Michael Jackson Story'' and ''The Man in the Mirror'' for

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. As a first time music producer Bishop (along with Scott Dibble), released "Begin Again" with two parts: Part One as a voice production with acoustic guitar and Part Two with an array of special guests that included

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Simon Law Simon Law (born 28 May 1961, in Luton, England) is a producer, keyboardist and songwriter for Soul II Soul. Career Law is an original member of Soul II Soul. The band had a #1 UK hit single with "Back to Life (However Do You Want Me)", where h ...

(

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) and

Will Ackerman William Ackerman (born November 16, 1949) is an American guitarist and record producer who founded Windham Hill Records. Career Early years Ackerman was born in Palo Alto, California. His adoptive father was a professor of English at Stanfor ...

. The resulting album is titled "Twenty Four is Twelve Twice or Twenty Four for Short". In 2017 Bishop assembled a vocal orchestra she called The Spirit of Adventure and recorded a live concert album called "Together Tonight" and in 2019 she discovered and released a bootleg recording from 1992 at The Cabana Room in Toronto. As a screenwriter Bishop (along with

, David Mackenzie and Brigitte Gall) penned the Fringe Festival one-woman play ''Joan of Montreal'', which became ''Brigitte Gall's Joan of Montreal'' for

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. She has also written several unproduced screenplays. As an experimental artist she created the "I, Butterfly"

digital collage Collage (, from the french: coller, "to glue" or "to stick together";) is a technique of art creation, primarily used in the visual arts, but in music too, by which art results from an Assemblage (art), assemblage of different forms, thus creat ...

for ''Begin Again'' and as a videomaker created an animated video series for the same CD. As a theme lyricist Arlene Bishop has written for ''

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'', ''

Pecola ''Pecola'' ( ja, ペコラ, ) is a 3D animated children's television series which stars cube-shaped anthropomorphic animals in a place called Cube Town. It is based on a series of children's picture books by Naomi Iwata. It was first aired on T ...

'', ''

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'', '' Beyblade: Metal Fusion'' and ''

Jane and the Dragon ''Jane and the Dragon'' is a series of children's books written and illustrated by Martin Baynton. The original trilogy consists of ''Jane and the Dragon'' (1988), ''The Dragon's Purpose'' (1989), and ''Jane and the Magician'' (2000). In 2008 ...

''. As a guest singer she has appeared on recordings by Marc Nadjiwan, Scott Dibble and

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. Her songs and co-writes have appeared on recordings by

, John Alcorn,

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and Marie Rottrova.

Discography

Pinky (1996)MacNeil, Jason
Arlene Bishop: Biography
,

AllMusic AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the databas ...

. Retrieved 15 January 2011. # Spin Another One # Cherry Moon # Small Girlish Hand # I Can't Stand It # Black Cat # Rabbit Snarky Girlpop (2001) # NV # 98 Points # Hurricane # Bow Before Your Love # Six Little Angels # Eleven Seconds # Eddie Standing Ready # My Way of Saying Goodbye # Sympathy # Irresponsible Thing # Human Being Cut a Man's Heart Out (2004) # Metaphor For Your Life # Cut A Man's Heart Out (Angel Mix) # Invisible Woman # Ruin Me # One Shoe # Arctic Wolf # (You Can't) Bend the River # Insomniac # Half Plus Half More # Au Revoir # Superstar # In Context # Cut A Man's Heart Out (Devil Mix) Twenty Four is Twelve Twice or Twenty Four for Short (2012) # Save Me # My Time Will Come # Beehive # Let Them Swing # Now # Once it Changes # Get Back Home # Window # Your Name Carved # If There's a God (You'll be with Me) # Ring of Truth # Begin Again Together Tonight: Live in Concert with the Spirit of Adventure (2017)https://www.allmusic.com/album/together-tonight-live-in-concert-mw0003145890s # Nothing # Confession # Long Slow Kiss # Terminate # Someone I Used to Love # Psychic # Sparrow # Reincarnation # I Would Do It Again # Hummery # The Moon Something # Lovers and Satan's Basement # I'm One # Thank You The Cabana Room Bootleg (Thank You Jimmy Scopes) (2019) # Black Cat # When it was just me and Jimmy # Half Plus Half More # Bad News Boys # Arctic Wolf # Well, any birthdays today? # Human Being # Of course it's not a pleasure # (You Can't) Bend the River # Big Ending

References

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Arlene Bishop
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bishop, Arlene Year of birth missing (living people) Living people People from Churchill, Manitoba Musicians from Manitoba Canadian singer-songwriters Canadian women singer-songwriters