Coral Egan is a Canadian jazz and pop singer. She is most noted as a two-time
Juno Award
The Juno Awards, more popularly known as the JUNOS, are awards presented annually to Canadian musical artists and bands to acknowledge their artistic and technical achievements in all aspects of music. New members of the Canadian Music Hall of ...
nominee, receiving nominations for
Vocal Jazz Album of the Year at the
Juno Awards of 2003
The Juno Awards of 2003 were presented in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on 6 April 2003. The primary awards ceremony was hosted that evening by Shania Twain at the Corel Centre (now Canadian Tire Centre) and televised on CTV television network, CTV.
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for her album ''The Path of Least Resistance'', and
Adult Contemporary Album of the Year at the
Juno Awards of 2014 for ''The Year He Drove Me Crazy''. Her voice is recognized as the vocals for the English opening & closing theme songs for the 1999 animated cartoon
Cybersix
The daughter of musician and composer
Karen Young,
[Philippe Renaud]
"Better Together: Karen Young and Coral Egan"
'' Words & Music'', March 10, 2017. she began her career as a backing vocalist on some of her mother's recordings and performing as a solo
folk artist. She released ''The Path of Least Resistance'', her own solo debut, in 2002, and followed up with the albums ''My Favorite Distraction'' (2004), ''Magnify'' (2007) and ''The Year He Drove Me Crazy'' (2012).
In 2015, Egan was diagnosed with
Guillain–Barré syndrome. During and after her recovery, Egan and Young collaborated on ''Missa Campanula'', a polychoral project which they performed at the 2016
Montreal Jazz Festival,
[Bill Brownstein]
"Karen Young and Coral Egan: Mother and daughter in perfect harmony"
'' Montreal Gazette'', July 1, 2016. and on the 2017 album ''Dreamers''.
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References
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21st-century Canadian women singers
Canadian women pop singers
Canadian women jazz singers
Singers from Montreal
Anglophone Quebec people
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
People with Guillain–Barré syndrome